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FULGORID.B. 



1752. Ancyra histrionica, Sfal, Stett. ent. Zeit. xxiv, p. 245 (1863) ; 

 Atkins. J. A. S. Beng. liv, p. 157 (1885). 



5 . Pusco-ferruginous ; face yellow-ferruginous, adorned with 

 five subelevated narrow black bands ; tegmina obscurely ferru- 

 gineous, basal part and oblique band behind the middle flavesceut, 

 apical callus black, apical appendage f uscescent - ochraceous ; 

 abdomen flavesceut (when alive sanguineous ?), apex covered with 

 a mouldy puhescence ; feet blackish. Closely allied to A. appcn- 

 diculata ; tegmiua, especially behind the middle, broader ; apical 

 appendage shorter, fuscesceut-ochraceous not black-f uscolis, apical 

 callus smaller ; wings broader aud their apical pi'ocess shorter. 



Length excl. tegm., $ , 11 ; exp. tegm. 20 millim. 



Hab. Burma ; Pegu {Jide Atkinson). — Cambodia. 



I have not seen this species. 



Genus MESSENA. 



Messena, Stdl, Rio Jan. Hem. ii, p. 67 (1858) : id. Stett. ent. Zeit. 

 xxiv, p. 246 (1863) ; Atkim. J. A. S. Ben;/. Iv, p. 12 (1886). 



Type, M. pidverosa, Hope. 



Distribution. Oriental and Malayan Eegions, 



Wings somewhat narrow, either not so broad or scarcely 

 broader than the tegmina ; head very broad, distinctly angularly 

 prominent before the eyes, genae broad, front distinctly broader 

 than the pronotum, vertex subequal in length to pronotum, eyes 

 beneath distinctly spinose ; tegmina w^ith the clavus very broad at 

 apex ; posterior tibia? with six spines. 



A. Wimjs white, with submarriinal black spots. 



1753. Messena pulverosa, ^ope (Eurybrachis), Tr. Linn. Soc. xix, 

 p. 134, t. xii, f. 7, a, h (1845) ; fital (Messeua), Rio Jan. Hem. 

 ii, p. 67 (1862) ; id. Stett. ent. Zeit. xxiv, p. 246 (1863) ; 

 Atkins. J. A. S. Beng. Iv, p. 17 (1886). 

 Messena burmanica, Atkins. J. A. S. Beng. Ivii, p. 340 (1888). 



Head and thorax above ochraceous speckled mth brown, aud 

 with two small fuscous discal spots on pronotum ; abdomen dull 

 sanguineous, apex with a long white coarse pilose appendage 



(easily mutilated aud fre- 

 quently absent in cabinet 

 specimens) ; face bright 

 reddish - ochraceous, its 

 margins aud the clypeus 

 ochraceous ; sternum and 

 legs viresceut, anterior 

 legs spotted with b]ack,the 

 tarsi and nearly the whole 

 of the posterior tibiae 

 Fig. 96. — Metit^ena pulverosfa. black; disk of abdomen 



beneath with alternate 

 black and ochraceous transverse fascise ; tegmina with about basal 



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