1885. ] E. T. Atkinson—WNotes on Indian Rhynchota. 147 
Fuscous ; head, thorax, and feet concolorous: basal half of tegmina 
virescent, sprinkled with numerous minute dull black spots, apices sub- 
orange-hyaline marked with cretaceous spots: basal half of wings green- 
ish with the posterior part whitish, spotted black, apices fuscous, irro- 
rated with virescent spots (Hope). Long 143: exp. teg. 46 millims. 
Reported from Silhat. 
32. APHANA NICOBARICA, Stal. 
Aphana nicobarica, Stal, Berlin Ent. Zeitschr. xiii, p. 241 (1869). 
Sordid olivaceous-green: scutellum, pectus, abdomen, and feet 
black-fuscous : tegmina before the middle eruginous, sprinkled with 
black; behind the middle, ochraceous, marked with a band and mouldy 
spots ; apical limbus, black ; wings, black, a very large basal spot cceru- 
lean-virescent. Long 19; exp. teg. 55 millims, ?. 
Size of A. farinosa, Burm., from which it differs in the head pro- 
duced anteriorly, seen from above equal in length and breadth between 
the eyes, roundly-angulated ; frons longer, furnished with a recurved 
process. Frons rugulose, tumescent at the base and with a median 
process short, compressed, recurved, obsoletely tricarinate, the ridges 
diverging upwards, the median ridge disappearing below the middle: 
vertex narrowed forwards, obsoletely carinate in the middle; lateral 
margins dilated, elevated: thorax furnished with a raised, acute ridge, 
running through it, strongly bi-impressed on the disc, scutellum tricari- 
nate. The eruginous half of the tegmina covered with minute and often 
confluent black dots, closer at the apex; apical half ochraceous with the 
apical limbus black; the spots and an anterior band clothed witha 
white powdery substance: wings black with a large basal patch ex- 
tended a little beyond the middle, cerulean-virescent. Apical margins of 
the dorsal segments of the abdomen, green (Stal). 
Reported from the Nicobars. 
33. ApHaNna (?) Dives, Walker. 
Aphena dives, Walker, List Hom. B. M. ii, p. 280 (1851). 
Body dark ferruginous ; disc of the vertex rather concave, borders 
slightly ridged, fore margin slightly inclined upwards: rostrum ex- 
tending far beyond the posterior cox, dark brown: mesonotum witha 
slight longitudinal furrow, fore-border very undulating ; a black band 
along the fore-border of the scutellum ; metanotum black : abdemen 
obconical, larger than the thorax, black above, thickly covered with 
white down, red beneath: legs black, sulcated, femora brown, posterior 
tibize spinose: tegmina green, adorned between the veins with orange 
streaks which are interrupted by very numerous brown dots, the latter are 
