1886.) _ WH). T. Atkinson—Notee on Indian Rhynchota. 57 
9. Body ferruginous: head as broad as the thorax; vertex very 
short, posteriorly sinuate, very slightly rounded in front, shorter in the 
middle than on each side; frons flat, rounded on each side, narrower 
towards the clypeus, bordered by a rim, concave where it joins the 
clypeus, not ridged, its breadth nearly twice its length: clypeus trian- 
gular: pronotum very short, arched, bordered by a rim: mesonotum 
black, not ridged : metanotum tawny: abdomen obconical, tawny at the 
base, hardly longer than the thorax: legs tawny: tegmina brown, 
ample, a tawny triangular spot on the anterior margin beyond the 
middle; two broad, oblique, very irregular, colourless bands on the dise, 
first short, second interrupted ; veins tawny, longitudinal veins numerous, 
transverse veins few; anterior margin slightly convex, along it a row of 
parallel transverse veins which are contorted and more oblique towards 
the tip: wings pale greyish-brown (Walker). Body long, 5}; teg., 163 
millims. 
Reported from N. India. 
79. RIcANIA PROMINENS, Walker. 
Ricania prominens, Walker, Ins. Saund. Hom. p. 48 (1858). 
Dull testaceous: head with eye and antennw forming a large verti- 
cal compartment ; vertex transverse, very short, mostly covered by the 
pronotum ; frons with transverse blackish marks, very much longer than 
broad, with elevated borders and three slight ridges, the middle one 
abbreviated, the pair converging towards the face, where they are 
connected ; face lanceolate, ridged: pronotum bicarinate, very convex 
along the fore border; mesonotum with a brown interlined disc and two 
‘blackish dots on each side; metanotum and abdomen dark brown, the 
latter with a pale testaceous stripe on each side: legs testaceous, femora 
slightly streaked with black: tegmina with brown marks along the costa 
and with a few brown marks elsewhere and with an irregular whitish 
subapical band; stigma whitish; veinlets regular along the costa and 
along the exterior border where they are mostly forked, the discal veins 
and veinlets irregular, the latter numerous; wings with very few vein- 
lets; both vitreous grayish, veins black and the exterior borders brown 
(Walker). Body long, 8}; teg., 25 millims. 
Reported from Silhat. 
80. Rrcoanra aurrirera, Walker. 
Pochazia guttifera, Walker, List Hom. B. M. ii, p. 427 (1851). 
Ricania guttifera, Stal, Ofvers. K. 7.-A. Férh. p. 491 (1862) ; Distant, J. A. 9. 
B. xlviii (2), p. 38 (1879). 
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