18 E. T. Atkinson—Notes on Indian Rhynchota. [No. l, 
Shining whitish: head and thorax yellow, abdomen concolorous, 
having the end clothed with a white cottony substance: basal half of 
tegmina virescent, apices fuscous-hyaline, sparingly spotted: wings 
whitish, with an irregular black spot at the anterior margin and other 
minute spots of the same colour placed posteriorly : first and intermediate 
pairs of feet of a red-lead colour, last pair fuscous (Hope). Body long, 
143; exp. teg., 55 millims. 
Reported from Silhat: the Indian Museum has a specimen, locality 
unknown. 
11. Messena neBuLOosA, Stal. 
Messena nebulosa, Stal, Stettin Ent. Zeit. xxiv, p. 246 (1863). 
@. Pale fawn-colour; tegmina sordid whitish, veined fawn-colour : 
towards the base fawn-colour or (especially beneath) weakly violaceous- 
ferruginous, behind the middle clouded and sprinkled pale-fuscescent ; 
adorned near the apex in the middle of the apical part with a spot and 
at the commissural margin, some distance behind the middle, with two 
spots (the posterior minute) or with one spot, black; sometimes spar- 
ingly sprinkled fuscous before the middle: wings whitish, obsoletely 
banded with fuscescent behind the middle, near the apex with some 
small black-fuscous spots which are sometimes wanting: abdomen 
(when alive ?) sanguineous ; apex of the anterior femora and the first pair 
of tibie sprinkled fuscous, entire anterior tarsi and the last pair behind 
the middle, black-fuscous. Closely allied to M. pulverosa, Hope, teg- 
mina and wings narrower, the former are not amplified towards the 
apex and are 23 times longer than the breadth (Stal). Long, 15; exp. 
teg., 47—50 millims. 
Reported from Cambodia, Malacca and Perak (?). 
Genus Tuessitus, Walker. 
Thessitus, Walker, Journ. Ent. i, p. 307 (1862) ; Stal, Ofvers, K. V.-A. Férh, 
p. 758 (1870): Thessita, Stal, Stettin Ent. Zeit. xxii, pp. 246-247, (1863) : see p. 10, 
Sec. A. Vertex shorter than breadth by about one-half, deeply 
sinuate at the base, truncated at the apex, lateral margins obtusely 
elevated in the middle; frons near the base furnished with a transverse, 
arched, distinct ridge, lateral angles much produced, rounded at the 
apex, lateral margins above and beneath those angles slightly sinuate ; 
infraocular spines short, scarcely visible from above: wings slightly 
narrowed towards the apex, apex broadly rounded. To this section 
belong J. insignis, Westwood, and 7. mortuifolia, Walker. 
Sec. B. Vertex less deeply sinuate at the base, apex broadly 
rounded; frons furnished near the base witha straight obsolete ridge, 
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