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8. Hurysracuys (?) RUBRESCENS, Walker. 
Eurybrachys rubrescens, Walker, Trans. Linn. Soc. Zool. i, p. 88 (1856). 
Testaceous: head, vertex, and thorax with reddish marks: frons oreen- 
ish testaceous: legs rosy red: tegmina pubescent, slightly tuberculated, 
with a black shining dot near the tip of the costa and at three-quarters 
of the length of the hind border, purplish red, and with black dots to- 
wards the base, tawny towards the tips, with a dingy hyaline median 
band and the borders chiefly of the same colour : wings milky white with 
a brown band (Walker). Body long, 103; teg., 37—38 millims. 
Reported from Mount Ophir, Singapore. 
9. Hurypracuys suprasciata, Walker. 
Eurybrachys subfasciata, Walker, List Hom. B. M. ii, p. 391 (1851). 
Issus apicalis, Walker, 1. c. p. 368 (1851). 
3, %. Body short, broad, testaceous, sprinkled with a darker colour : 
head as broad as the thorax : vertex very slightly arched with an indis- 
tinct ridge along the border, six times broader than long; frons short, 
flat, for®¥ing an acute angle on each side, not sinuate where it joins the 
clypeus but forming an obtuse inward angle on each side near which it 
has two slight oblique furrows; more than twice broader than long : 
clypeus triangular, slightly rounded : rostrum ferruginous : eyes spinose : 
fore-chest very slightly rounded anteriorly, straight behind, a little 
longer than the frons : middle-chest longer than the fore-chest, subtrian- 
gular, its hinder sides sinuate: pectus and metanotum red: abdomen 
obconical as long as the thorax : fore nnd middle legs red, very broad ; 
hind legs slender, dark red, hind femora mostly pale yellow, hind tibie 
4-spinose, tips of spines, black: tegmina pale ferruginous, partly tawny, 
adorned at the tips with a few black spots of various size and varying in 
each specimen ; veins ferruginous: wings almost colourless or slightly 
tinged with brown, blackish with a white band towards the tips ; veins 
tawny (Walker). Body long, 5-63; teg., 15—16j millims. 
Reported from India, N. Bengal. 
Genus Messena, Stal. 
Stettin Ent. Zeit. xxii, p. 246 (1863) : see p. 10. 
10. Messmna PULVEROSA, Hope. 
Eurybrachys pulverosa, Hope, Trans. Linn. Soc. xix, p. 134, t. 12, £. 7a, b, (1845) ; 
Walker, List. Hom. B. M. ii, p. 382 (1851). 
Messena pulverosa, Stal, Rio. Jan. Hem. ii, p. 67 (1862) ; Stettin Ent. Zeit. xxiv, 
p. 246 (1863). 
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