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half (not reaching costal margin) virescent, with the venation 

 darker, remaining area pale greyish with the venation fuscous, 

 about three small black spots on virescent area, and two and some 

 \evy mucli smaller black spots on apical area ; wings cretaceous, 

 with three subapical white spots ; x'ostrum short, piceous, about 

 reaching the intermediate coxae. 



Length excl. tegm. 144 to 15 ; exp. tegm. 50 to 55 millim. 



Bab. Sylhet (Brit. Mas.). Malabar {Coll. Bist.). Burma; 

 Pal on {Binyliam). 



The type of M. hnnnanica, Atkins., is now contained in the 

 collection of the British Museum; it is a faded specimen of 

 M. jmlvcrosa in which the basal green coloration of the tegmina 

 has become tawny-brown. 



1754. Messena nebulosa, Stdl, Stett. ent. Zeit. xxiv, p. 246 (1863) ; 



Atkins. J. A. S. Beiu/. Iv, p. 18 (1886). 



Head, thorax, sternum, and legs ochraceous ; anterior legs 

 spotted with black, posterior tibite (excluding base) piceous, tarsi 

 more or less piceous ; abdomen sanguineous, beneath with alter- 

 nate discal black and ochraceous transverse fasciae ; head and 

 thorax above finely mottled with fuscous-brown ; abdominal anal 

 appendage ochraceous ; tegmina very pale tawny-greyish, with 

 irregular scattered piceous mottlings on basal half not reaching 

 costal area, and three subapical marginal spots and smaller apical 

 spots or dots piceous ; wings cretaceous, with three subapical 

 black spots ; rostrum mutilated in specimen described. 



Closely allied to the preceding species (J/, pidverosa), Stal 

 describes the tegmina and wings as narrower, the former not 

 amplified towards the apex, but these differences do not exist in 

 my specimens. The differences are principally those of colour, 

 but the two species seem undoubtedly distinct. 



Length excl. tegm. 15 ; exp. tegm. 47 to 50 millim. 



Hah. Malabar {Coll. Bist.). — Malay Peninsula. Cambodia, 



1755. Messena punctif era, 7^«/^•. (Eurvbrachys) List Ham. ii, -p. 383 



(1851) ; Bist. J. A. S. Benff. xlviii (2), p. 38 (1879) ; Atki7is. 

 op. cit. Iv, p. 16 (1886). 



Body above pale fawn-colour, head and thorax above finely 

 mottled with tawny-brown ; body beneath and legs paler and 

 more ochraceous, antei'ior tibiae and apical areas of anterior 

 femora somewhat thickly speckled with piceous, intermediate 

 tibiae outwardly mottled with piceous, tarsi with fuscous annu- 

 lations ; abdomen beneath with transverse abdominal segmental 

 ])iceous fasciae ; tegmina very pale fawn-colour, the venation 

 darker and in parts testaceous, the costal and apical areas 

 irregularly a little paler, the last ornamented with very small 

 piceous spots continued a little along the extreme posterior 

 margin, where the largest spot is situate ; wings creamy-white 



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