1886. ] E. T. Atkinson—Notes on Indian Rhynchota. 151 
15. Tacua spuctosa, Illiger. 
J. A. 8. B. liii, (2), p. 217, no. 17. 
Black: pronotum with a narrow border anteriorly and a broad pos- 
terior band yellow with a greenish tinge, posterior margin of mesonotal 
cruciform elevation and two spots confluent with the margin orange- 
yellow : abdomen black, 5-7 segments yellow above with a greenish Hace 
and with a rounded black spot on the fifth segment: tegmina hice 
or brownish olive with a dark green tinge, veins sanguineous: wings 
black with a broad sordid whitish limbus: feet black. i 
Genus Tosena, Amyot & Serville. 
J. A. 8. B. liii, (2), p. 217. 
Head broad, triangular; frons very tumid without a longitudinal 
groove in the middle: eyes stout, prominulous: lateral margins of 
thorax very narrowly somewhat dilated, forming a tooth before the 
middle: the tegmina and wings entirely opaque with a weak, elevated, 
transverse line in the middle of each tegmen: abdomen stout, inflated 5 
opercula as in Tacwa (A. § S.). 
16. Tosena MELANOPTERA, White. 
J. A. 8. B. liii, (2), p. 217, no. 18. 
Tn size and colour resembles T. fasciata, Fabr. (reported from Java) 
but in the latter, the veins of both tegmina and wings are of a very clear 
ferruginous colour, the band is obscure yellow, there is a ferruginous line 
(sometimes interrupted) on the front of the clypeus, the anterior margin 
of the pronotum has four smal] ferruginous spots and the tips of the 
femora are yellow. In T. melanoptera, White, the veins of the tegmina 
ngs are nearly entirely black, the band on the tegmina is whiter 
and generally broader than in 7’. fasciata, the clypeus is entirely black, 
there are no spots on the anterior margin of the pronotum, the yellow 
marks above the antenne are smaller and the legs are of an uniform 
black (White). 
and wi 
17. Tosmna mparestana, Westwood. 
J. A. 8. B. liii, (2), p. 217, no. 19. 
rgin of pronotum, yellow: mesonotum posteriorly 
, ferruginous spot: metanotum margined 
wings broadly testaceous : 
eins black (Westwood). 
Black: posterior ma 
on both sides with an oblong 
fulvous: tegmina black fuscous, veins black: 
anal area and slender apical margin, fuscous ; V 
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