52 §. T. Atkinson—Notes on Indian Rhynchota. [No. 1, 
Stature entirely of R. hyalina, Fabr., but smaller: body black : 
tegmina fuscous, hyaline at the base, spot on the anterior margin and 
punctures, fuscous; in the middle a broad oblique hyaline band and nu- 
merous spots, hyaline: entire wings obscure hyaline (ubr.). Allied to 
R. mellerborgi, Stal. 
Reported from Java. 
68. RIcANIA MELLERBORGI, Stal. 
Ricania mellerborgi, Stal, Ofvers. K. V.-A. Férh. xi, p. 247 (1854). 
Flatoides discalis, Walker, J. Linn. Soc. Zool. i, p. 89 (1856) ; p. 156 (1857). 
Testaceous : tegmina fuscous with a large transverse patch and 
apots on the margin, whitish-hyaline. Allied to Li. fenestrata, Fabr. 
Long., 5; exp. teg., 16 millims. 
Reported from Java, Borneo, Singapore, Burma. 
Walker’s F. discalis, is black : frons much broader than long, with 
a slightly elevated margin and slightly tricarinate: posterior margins 
of segments of abdomen and the legs dull testaceous: tegmina blackish, 
with a testaceous dot on the tip of each vein; disc limpid; two limpid 
dots on the costa and two towards the tip of the exterior border: wings 
limpid with brown borders. Body long, 67; teg., 16{ millims. 
69. Ruicanza opscura, Fabricius. 
‘Flata obscura, Fabricius, Syst. Rhyng. p. 49 (1803) ; Germar in Thon’s Archiy. 
ii (2) p. 49 (1880): Walker, J. Linn. Boc. Zool. i, p. 92 (1856) ; p. 161 (1857). 
Pochazia obscura (?) Walker, List Hom. B. M. ii, p. 426 (1851). 
Ricania obscura, Stal, Hem. Fabr. ii, p. 104 (1869). 
9. Pale testaceous-flavescent, vertex and thorax fuscous-testace- 
ous, scutellum black: tegmina ferruginous-fuscous, sprinkled pale before 
the middle and in the middle, and with small pale transverse lines, an 
unequal narrow band placed behind the middle and the costal membrane 
obscurely fuscous, the extreme part of its margin pallid, a small oblique 
transverse line, behind the middle of the costal margin, whitish: wings 
fuscescent, apical margin of the two last ventral segments black towards 
the sides. Frons about one-third shorter than broad, gradually roundly 
narrowed towards the apex, distinctly tricarinate : scutellum 5-carinate, 
lateral ridges oblique: tegmina triangular; claval suture and apical 
margin equally long, the latter very slightly subrotundate ; costal mar- 
gin, gradually slightly rounded; apical commissural angle somewhat 
obtusish, distinct; apical costal angle somewhat rounded ; longitudinal 
veins rather numerous, transverse discoidal veins rare; the posterior 
transverse veins arranged in two rows, the anterior irregular, the pog- 
