JJESIS. 233 



Length excl. tegiu. S| to 11 ; exp. tegm. 27^ to 40 millim.* 

 Hab. S^'lhet, Sikhim (Lid. 2Iiis.). Xorth-west Province ; 



Garwhal (Coll. Dist.). Assam ; Khasi Hills (Chennell). Naga 



Hills (Doherty). 



1 763. Loxocephala decora, Walk. (Eurybraclivs) List Horn, n, p. 382 



(1851) ; Atkins. (Loxocephala) J. A. S. ~Ben<j. Iv, p. 20 (1886). 



Body above ochraeeous, or probably in fresh specimens virescent ; 

 a, central line to clypens and the legs sanguineous ; anterior 

 margins of vertex, pronotum, and mesonotum, and the dilatations 

 of anterior tibiae black ; tegmina pale tawny-brown ; a transverse 

 fascia at base, the apical margin, and a diseal transverse streak 

 before it black ; wings cretaceous-white, apical marginal area very 

 pale tawny-brown, its outer margin and a spot near apex of costal 

 margin black. 



Length excl. tegm. 10^ ; exp, tegm. 29 to 32 millim. 



Hah. Sikhim (lad. JIus.). Darjiiiiig (Coll. Dist.). Assam 

 (Brit. JIus.). 



1764. Loxocephala castanea, Did. Tr. E. S. 1892, p. 281. 



Body and legs ochraeeous ; anterior margin of front, central 

 ]Dortion of anterior margin of pronotum, transverse fasciae to 

 abdomen above, dilatations to the anterior tibiae, apices of tarsi, 

 and base of apical segment of the abdomen beneath black ; tegmina 

 bright castaneous, minutely spotted with grey, the apical area 

 bright ochraeeous, containing a central black macular fascia and 

 with the apical margin also black. 



Length excl. tegm. 10 ; exp. tegm. 28 to 30 millim. 



Hab. Assam ; Margherita and Naga Hills (DoJierty). 



Allied to L. decora, AValk., from which it may be separated by 

 the different colour of the tegmina, absence of the black basal 

 fascia to same, and also by the absence of the black subapical spot 

 to wings and black fascia to mesonotum. 



Genus NESIS. 



Nesis, StaJ, Rio Jan. Hem. ii, p. Q7 (1862) : Atkins. J. A. S. Benij. 

 Iv, p. 12 (1886). 



Type, N. tricolor., Walk. 



Distribution. Brit. India. 



Head narrower than the thorax, vertex subsinuate at the base ; 

 second joint of the antennae subglobose ; lateral angles of the front 

 moderately produced ; tegmina elongate, somewhat narrow, the 

 clavus narrowly open at apex, the longitudinal veins nearly united 

 in the middle ; wings ample, broader than the tegmina, without a 



* Atkinson (.s«^;r«) gives the diiuensions of this species as " Long, 27j 

 broad, 8^ millim." ; but this is clearly a transposition. 



