1885. ] K. T. Atkinson—Notes on Indian Rhynchota. 149 
11—12 large black spots, the purplish part reticulated with whitish : 
the end brownish-black ; a bluish-green band-like mark across the mid- 
dle of the wing, not nearly reaching the hind margin, the three nerves 
traversing it are black; tegmina and wings beneath almost same as 
above: head and thorax above greenish ; prothorax finely, transversely 
striated, a line, down the middle, shining: abdomen black, margins yel- 
low, segments slightly powdered with white, vulvar scales red: legs 
brown, tibiz of hind legs tridentate on the outside (White). Exp. teg. 
61 millims. 
Reported from Silhat: the Indian Museum possesses specimens from 
Sikkim. Red: metanotum black: abdomen with ared transverse line at 
the base ; tip red beneath : tegmina with black spots along the costa and 
with some more or less interrupted and irregular black bands ; more 
than one-third of the apical part black with very numerous and regular 
black veins and veinlets : wings black, basal half red with several black 
spots; a white middle band, not extending to the hind border (A. 
placabilis, Walker). Body long 163; teg. 545 millims. This ig the 
reddish-brown variety. 
36. Lycorma punicna, Hope. 
Lystra punicea, Hope Trans. Linn. Soc. xix, p. 133, t. 12. £.5 (1843) ; Walker, 
List Hom. B. M. ii, p. 286 (1851). 
Aphena delectabilis, Walker, 1. c. Suppt. p. 44 (1858). 
Lycorma punicea, Stal, Stettin Ent. Zeit. xxiv, p. 232 (1863). 
Reddish purple, head and thorax paler; basal half of tegmina 
tinted rosy and sprinkled with numerous black spots; apex hyaline 
fuscous-puniceous with a pellucid mark in the middle of the disc : wings 
puniceous at the base, marked by black spots, whitish in the middle and 
fuscous-hyaline, at the apex (Hope). Long 12}; exp. teg. 48 millims. 
Ferruginous brown, black beneath: antenne bright red ; pronotum 
dull green with some very minute, testaceous, brown-bordered spots : 
abdomen black: hind borders of the segments Iuteous on each side, 
beneath: legs black: tegmina black, whitish green with black spots for 
about one-third from the base, outline of the green part much excavated 
with some streaks same hue near it; veins green: wings bright red 
with black spots, apical part blackish brown, divided from the red part 
by a bright greenish blue band which does not extend to the hind 
margin. (A. delectabilis, Walker). Body long, 123; exp, teg. 42 
millims. 
Reported from N. China, Shanghai, India, Silhat. The Indian 
Museum possesses a mutilated specimen from the Dikrang valley, As- 
sam, 
