56 HE. T. Atkinson-—Notes on Indian Rhynchota. [No. }, 
neath: legs tawny: tegmiua and wings colourless with brown borders, 
the former ample, a brown dot near the base, beyond it two slender brown 
bands ; the first forming a brown ringlet on the disc between which and 
the border it is widened and includes a colourless dot; the second very 
slight extending along the outer band of transverse veins; veins tawny, 
here and there brown: stigma tawny: wings with a brown exterior 
border. Body long, 5—635; teg., 17—19 millims. 
Reported from China: the Indian Museum has a specimen from 
Assam. 
77. RiIcaNrIA INTERRUPTA, Walker. 
Pochazia interrupta, Walker, List Hom. B. M. ii, p. 428 (1851): neo P. inter. 
vupta, J. L. 8. Zool. i, p. 91 (1856). 
Ricania interrupta, Stal, Ofvers. K. V.-A. Forh. p. 491 (1862). 
9. Body black: head very short, as broad as the thorax ; vertex 
very short, dark ferruginous, bordered by a rim, sinuate on the posterior 
border, nearly straight in front, its length in the middle about half of 
that on each side; frons very finely striated, rounded on each side, 
rather narrower towards the clypeus,. bordered by a ferruginous rim, 
slightly concave where it joins the clypeus, tricarinate, the lateral 
ridges indistinct, its breadth a little less than twice its length; clypeus 
ferruginous, triangular, with a slight median ridge; pronotum very 
slightly sinuated behind, rounded anteriorly with a median ridge, on 
each side of which there is an impression, its length in the middle 
less than twice that on each side: mesonotum very finely striated, 5- 
carinate, the two ridges on each side united on the disc: abdomen dark 
ferruginous, obconical, a little longer than the thorax: legs ferruginous : 
tegmina dark brown, ample, triangular, with a broad, oblique white 
band which is interrupted in front; a row of white dots extending on 
the edge of the termemfrom the hind border along one-third of the dis- 
tance to the tip; veins blackish, pale yellow on the white parts; longi- 
tudinal veins very numerous ; transverse veins few; fore-border straight, 
along it a row of mostly parallel transverse veins which are more oblique 
where the longitudinal vein appears contorted; beyond this they are 
shorter: wines brown, little more than half the length of the tegmina 
with a white band which forms one with that on the tegmina (Walker). 
Body long, 6;; teg., 25 millims. 
Reported from Malabar. 
78. Ruicania srimuLans, Walker. 
Pochazia simulans, Walker, List Hom. B. M. ii, p. 431 (1851). 
Ricania simulans, Stal, Ofvers. K. V.-A. Forh. p. 491 (1862). 
