18 E. T. Atkinson — Notes on Indian Rliynchota. [No. 1, 



Shining whitisli : head and thorax yellow, abdomen concolorons, 

 having the end clothed with a white cottony substance : basal half of 

 tegmina virescent, apices fuscous-hyaline, sparingly spotted : wings 

 whitish, with an irregular black spot at the anterior margin and other 

 minute spots of the same colour placed posteriorly : first and intermediate 

 pairs of feet of a red-lead colour, last pair fuscous (Hojpe). Body long, 

 14J ; exp. teg., 55 millims. 



Reported from Silhat : the Indian Museum has a specimen, locality 

 unknown. 



11. Messena nebulosa, Stal. 

 Messena nehulosa, Stal, Stettin Ent. Zeit. xxiv, p. 246 (1863). 



$ . Pale fawn-colour ; tegmina sordid whitish, veined fawn-colour : 

 towards the base fawn-colour or (especially beneath) weakly violaceous- 

 ferruginous, behind the middle clouded and sprinkled pale-fuscescent ; 

 adorned near the apex in the middle of the apical part with a spot and 

 at the commissural margin, some distance behind the middle, with two 

 spots (the posterior minute) or with one spot, black ; sometimos spar- 

 ingly sprinkled fuscous before the middle : wings whitish, obsoletely 

 banded with fuscescent behind the middle, near the apex with some 

 small black- fuscous spots which are sometimes wanting : abdomen 

 (when alive ?) sanguineous ; apex of the anterior femora and the first pair 

 of tibiae sprinkled fuscous, entire anterior tarsi and the last pair behind 

 the middle, black-fuscous. Closely allied to M. pulverosa, Hope, teg- 

 mina and wings narrower, the former are not amplified towards the 

 apex and are 2| times longer than the breadth (Stal). Long, 15 ; exp. 

 teg., 47 — 50 millims. 



Reported from Cambodia, Malacca and Perak (?). 



Genus Thessitus, Walker. 



Thessitus, Walker, Journ. Ent. i, p. 307 (1862) ; Stal, Ofvers, K. V.-A. Forli. 

 p. 753 (1870J : Thessita, Stal, Stettin Ent. Zeit. xxii, pp. 246-247, (1863) : see p. 10. 



Sec. A. Vertex shorter than . breadth by about one-half, deeply 

 sinuate at the base, truncated at the apex, lateral margins obtusely 

 elevated in the middle ; frons near the base furnished with a transverse, 

 arched, distinct ridge, lateral angles much produced, rounded at the 

 apex, lateral margins above and beneath those angles slightly sinuate ; 

 infraocular spines short, scarcely visible from above : wings slightly 

 narrowed towards the apex, apex broadly rounded. To this section 

 belong T. insignisy Westwood, and T. mortuifolia^ Walker. 



Sec. B. Vertex less deeply sinuate at the base, apex broadly 

 rounded ; frons furnished near the base with a straight obsolete ridge, 



