1886.] E. T. Atkinson — Notes on Indian Rhjncliota. 19 



parallel to tlie basal margin, lateral angles rounded at tlie apex, lateral 

 margins above those angles slightly sinaate, beneath them straight ; 

 infraocular spines somewhat largish, very prominent ; wings more nar- 

 rowed towards the apex than in section A. The T. nigro-notata, Stal, 

 belongs to this section. 



12. Thessitus insignis, Westwood. 



Euryhrachys insignis, Westwood, A. M. N, H. ix, p. 119 (1842) ; Hope, Trans. 

 Linn. Soc. xix, p. 134, t. 12, f. 9 (1845) ; Walker, List. Horn. B. M. ii, p. 382 (1851) ; 

 J. Linn. Soc. Zool. i, p. 155 (1857) ; 1. c. x, p. 133 (1867). 



Eurijhrachys multicolor, Walker, J. Linn. Soc. Zool. i, p. 88 (1856). 



Thessita insignis, Stal, Stettin Ent. Zeit. xxir, p. 247 (1863). 



Thessitus insignis, Stal, Ofvers. K. Y.-A. Forh. p. 753 (1870). 



Shining white : head and thorax yellow, sides of abdomen san- 

 guineous : tegmina flavescent, sprinkled with various minute black spots : 

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

 other minute spots of the same colour posteriorly : anterior feet fuscous- 

 yellow, posterior green, spines on tibiae, blackish (Hope). Body long, 

 14J ; exp. teg., 54 millims. 



E-eported from Malabar ; Philippines ; Sumatra. 



13. Thessitus mortuifolia, Walker. 



Thessitus mortuifolia, Walker, Journ. Ent. i, p. 307, t. 15, f. 4 (1862). 

 Thessita mortuifolia, Stal, Stettin Ent. Zeit. xxir, p. 247 (1863). 



S . Fawn colour, tibiaa verging into olivaceous, first pair sprinkled 

 fuscous : tegmina pellucid- greyish, veined fuscous and subolivaceous, 

 marked with black spots and small black transverse lines at the margins ; 

 entire clavus and oblique basal part of corium olivaceous-virescent, co- 

 rium adorned behind the virescent part with a very oblique sanguineous 

 patch which does not reach the costal margin : wings whitish, furnished 

 near the apex with 5-6 black spots, two larger and sometimes confluent. 

 In stature very similar to T. insignis, Westwood ; tegmina more than 

 twice longer than broad, not amplified towards the apex, the apex obliquely 

 rounded, costal margin slightly sinuate in the middle (Stal). Long, 14 j 

 exp. teg., 50 millims. 



Reported from Cambodia : the Indian Museum has a specimen 

 from Perak. 



14. Thessitus nigro-notatus, Stal. 



Thessita nigro-notata, Stal, Stettin Ent. Zeit. xxiv, p. 247 (1863). 



S . Fawn-colour : basal spot on clypeus, band on frons placed a little 

 beneath the middle, abbreviated and interrupted in the middle, a band 

 a little above the middle running between the lateral angles and twice 



