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cretaceous white, with about basal third bright sanguineous, and 

 with three black submarginal apical spots. 



Length excl. tegiu. 11 to 13 ; exp. tegm. 44 to 55 millim. 



Hah. Ceylon; Kandy, Dambool ((rrde^)- 



WestvA'ood described tlie species from a faded specimen, in 

 which the green coloration of the tegmina had become obsolete ; 

 Kirby's description applies to fresh specimens. 



C. Winqs rfi-ei/ish, with the upper basal area hJacJc and with 

 submarginal black spots. 



I75S. Messena sinuata, Atkins. J. A. 8. Beng. Ivii, p. 3o9 (1888j. 



Head and thorax above pale tawny-brown, irregularly spotted 

 nith piceous ; abdomen above aud the mesosternuin sanguineous, 

 abdominal apex covered with cretaceous waxy efflorescence ; face, 

 prosteruum, legs, and abdomen beneath pale tawny-brown ; face 

 and anterior and intermediate legs spotted and mottled \\ith 

 piceous ; anterior tibia3 and posterior legs piceous ; abdoinen 

 beneath with lateral spots aud transverse discal fascia3 black ; 

 tegmina with about basal two-thirds, obliquely narrowing to costal 

 margin at about one-third from base, purplish-red, somewhat 

 transversely marked by maculate black fasciae, the costal margin 

 with small black spots, remaining area pale dull ochraceous 

 with clusters of bhack mottled markings on apical area aud above 

 the termination of the basal purplish area ; wrings greyish-ochra- 

 ceous, a large black longitudinal fascia on the anterior area 

 widened outwardly and truncate ly terminating at about two-thirds 

 from base, apical area with three submarginal black spots, the 

 two uppermost sometimes confluent. 



Length excl. tegm. 15 ; exp. tegm. 36 millim.* 



Hab. Trivandrum (Ferr/mon). Nilgiri Hills {Hampsoa). 



Genus NICIDUS. 



Xicidus, Stal, Ofo. Vd.-Ah. Fork. 1858, p. 451; Melich. Horn. 



Faun. Ceuhn, p. G9 (1903). 

 Kandiaua, i)ist. Tr. E. S. 1892, p. 280. 



Type, N. fusco-nebidosus, Stal. 



Distribution. Ceylon. 



Body oblong ; head broad, broader than pronotum, anteriorly 

 aud obsoletely angularly rounded, vertex about half as long as 

 broad, face much flattened and approaching plaue of sternum, 

 strongly angularly produced in front of eyes ; clypeus moderately 

 convex ; antennae short, not passing beyond eyes, which are strongly 



* Atkinson gives 46 millim. as the expanse of tegmina, but this is probably 

 a misprint. 



