1886.] E, T. Atkinson — Notes on Indian Rhynchota. 17 



8. Edrybrachts (?) RUBEESCENS, Walker. 

 Euryhrachys ruhrescens, Walker, Trans. Linn. Soc. Zool. i, p. 88 (1856). 



Testaceous : head, vertex, and thorax with reddish marks : f rons green- 

 ish testaceous : legs rosy red : tegmina pubescent, slightly tuberculated, 

 with a black shining dot near the tip of the costa and at three- quarters 

 of the length of the hind border, purplish red, and with black dots to- 

 wards the base, tawny towards the tips, with a dingy hyaline median 

 band and the borders chiefly of the same colour : wings milky white with 

 a brown band (Walker), Body long, 10 J ; teg., 37 — 38 millims. 



Reported from Mount Ophir, Singapore, 



9. EuRTBRACHTS SUBFASCIATA, Walker. 



Euryhrachys suhfasciata, Walker, List Horn. B. M. ii, p. 391 (1851). 

 Issus apicalis, Walker, 1. c, p. 368 (1851). 



cf , ? . Body short, broad, testaceous, sprinkled with a darker colour : 

 head as broad as the thorax : vertex very slightly arched with an indis- 

 tinct ridge along the border, six times broader than long ; frons short, 

 flat, forming an acute angle on each side, not sinuate where it joins the 

 clypeus but forming an obtuse inward angle on each side near which it 

 has two slight oblique furrows ; more than twice broader than long : 

 clypeus triangular, slightly rounded : rostrum ferruginous : eyes spinose : 

 fore-chest very slightly rounded anteriorly, straight behind, a little 

 lono-er than the frons : middle-chest longer than the fore-chest, subtrian- 

 gular, its hinder sides sinuate : pectus and metanotum red : abdomen 

 obconical as long as the thorax : fore smd middle legs red, very broad ; 

 hind legs slender, dark red, hind femora mostly pale yellow, hind tibias 

 4-spinose, tips of spines, black : tegmina pale ferruginous, partly tawny, 

 adorned at the tips with a few black spots of various size and varying in 

 each specimen ; veins ferruginous : wings almost colourless or slightly 

 tinged with brown, blackish with a white band towards the tips ; veins 

 tawny (WaUcer). Body long, 5-6| ; teg., 15— 16 J millims. 



Reported from India, IST. Bengal. 



Genus Messena, Stal. 

 Stettin Ent. Zeit. xxii, p. 246 (1863) : see p. 10. 



10. Messena pulverosa, Hope. 



Euryhrachys pulverosa, Hope, Trans. Linn. Soc. xix, p. 134, t. 12, f. 7a, h, (1845) ; 

 Walker, List. Horn. B. M. ii, p. 382 (1851). 



Messena pulverosa, Stal, Rio. Jan. Hem. ii, p. 67 (1862) ; Stettin Ent. Zeifc. xxiv, 

 p. 246 (1863). 



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