balijStta. 149 



Hiiecliys picta, Walk. Ins. Saund., Horn. p. 28 (1858) ; Atkins. 



J. A. S. Bemj. Iv, p. 155 (1886). 

 Var. a. Bist. Mon. Orient, dead. p. 108 (1892). 

 Var. b. Bist. torn. cit. t. iii, f. 13, a, b. 



Head, prouotum, and mesonotum black ; head with the basal 

 margin of front and basal margin of vertex dull dark ochraceoas : 

 basal margin and a transverse basal spot to pronotum, lateral 

 margins and two central angulated fascia? to mesonotuta connected 

 with the cruciform elevation, and the anterior and posterior angles 

 of the last dull dark ochraceous ; abdomen reddish-ochraceous 



Fig. 05. — Bcdinfa octonofata. 



with a central black longitudinal fascia ; head beneath, sternum, 

 and legs black, margins of face and abdomen beneath ochraceous ; 

 abdomen with base, a lateral series of spots, and base of sixth 

 abdominal segment black; tegmina dark shining fuscous, the 

 costal membrane and venation ochraceous, with four pale creamy 

 spots, situate one near base, two about centre, and one near costal 

 apex ; wings sanguineous, with the apical and posterior margins 

 (not extending to anal area) fuscous. 



Var. a. Basal spot to tegmina obliterated. 



Var. h. Basal spot to tegmina obliterated, and the two central 

 spots rej)laced bj a narrow transverse fascia. 



Length excl. tegm., cJ, 25 to :27 ; exp. tegm. 60 to Gl millim. 



IRih. Sikhim {Ind. 3Ius.). Assam ; Margherita {Dolierty). 

 Burma (Bingham); Upper Kegions (Coll, Dist.). 



1651. Balinta tenebricosa, Dist. (G?e?in?i) Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. xx\i, 

 p. 454, t. iv, f. 2, a. b (1888) ; id. 3Ion. Orient. Cicad. p. 108, 

 t. iii, f. 14, a,b (1892). 

 Var. a. Dist. torn. cit. p. 108. 



Head and pronotum ochraceous ; head with the anterior margin 

 and a basal spot to front, and a broad fascia between eyes, black ; 

 pronotum with a broad central longitudinal fascia (which is 

 widened and angulated anteriorly and posteriorly), followed on 

 each side by two spots, an oblique fascia, a patch at lateral margins, 

 and a spot on each side of posterior margin black ; mesonotum 



