228 FULGomDvii. 



Mitl) pale fu.'^cous suffusion, a transverse black spot near or at apex 

 and a smaller one a little before it on posterior margin ; rostrum 

 reaching intermediate coxa^. a little fuscous at base ; face very 

 sliglitly granulose, with a few transverse narrow linear brown 

 spots. 



Length excl. tegm. 10| ; exp. tegm. 37| miliim. 



Hah. Madi'as {Brit. Mvs.). Teuasserim. 



175G. Messena radiata, DM. Tr. E. S. 1892, p. 280, t. xiii, f. 1. 



Head and thorax above ochraceous, Mith irregular darlser 

 markings ; face ochraceous, its anterior margin speckled with 

 fuscous: abdomen above sanguineous, its lateral margins and 

 anal appendages orange-yellow ; sternum and legs pale ochraceous, 

 anterior femora and tibise finely spotted with black ; posterior 

 tibise (excluding base), rostrum (excluding apex), and posterior 

 coxal spots black ; abdomen beneath orange-yellow, the segmental 

 margins and apex more or less fuscous ; tegmina with almost 

 basal half ochraceous shaded with purplish towards its margins 

 and with a few small scattered discal purplish spots, remaining 

 area pale grevish-brown, with a central suhapical spot, a spot near 

 apex of inner margin, and some very small scattered spots on 

 apical margin black ; wings pale greyish, with three subapical 

 marginal black spots. 



Length excl. tegm. 12; exp. tegm. 30 miliim. 



Hab. Nilgiri Hills (Nampson). 



B. Winr/s ivliite, witli ilic basal area sanciuineous and witJi 

 svhmarfjinal blade spots. 



1757. Messeiia crildelis, Westw. (Eurvbrachvs) A. M. N. H. (2) vii. 

 p. 208 (1851) : Kirk. J. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Sac. xiv, p. ol (1902) : 

 Melich. Horn. Faun. Ceylon, p. 69 (1903). 

 Eurybrachys westwoodi, Kirhy, J. Linn. Soc, Zool. xxiv, p. 14' i. 

 t. vi, f. 1 (1891); Kirk. (Messena) Entomologist, xxxiii. 

 p. 294 (1900) ; Melich. (Eurvbraclivs-Messeua) 'Horn. Faim. 

 Ceylon, p. 69 (1903). 



Head and thorax above brownish ochraceous with darker 

 mottlings, and with two or three small discal piceous spots on 

 pronotum ; abdomen above sanguineous \\\\\\ cretaceous pilose 

 spots and with a mass of cretaceous waxy efflorescence at apex ; 

 bodv beneath brownish ochraceous : rostrum, coxal spots, bases 

 of femora, posterior tibite and tarsi, lateral spots and transverse 

 discal fascise to abdomen beneath black ; tegmina either greyish- 

 white with the veins fuscous and about basal half bluish-green, or 

 pale fuscous-brown with the basal half darker, but in this case 

 bluish-green beneath, about three discal piceous spots on basal 

 area, and smaller spots or dots on apical area, frequently 

 a prominent black spot near apex of inner margin; wings 



