1886.] E. T. Atkinson — Notes on Indian Rhynchota. 21 



whicli there is a black band ; thrice broader than long : mesonotum 

 short, hardly longer than the pronotum, nearly triangular, with a black 

 interrupted band in front : abdomen obconical, much longer than the 

 thorax : legs red ; fore legs rather broad and flat, fore tibiae striped 

 black, feet partly black : tegmina green with an oblique black band 

 at the base, black along the tips, near which there is another ob- 

 lique black band in the disc, two white dots in the middle, one near the 

 fore border, the second near the hind border and nearer the tip than the 

 first ; veins green : wings white, green towards the tips which are 

 black ; an oblique black spot on the fore-border near the tip ; veins pale 

 yellow (Walker). Body long, 10 J ; wings long, 29|- millims. 



Reported from Assam : the Indian Museum possesses a specimen 

 from Sikkim. 



Genus Nesis, Stal. 

 Rio Jan. Hem. ii, p. 67 (1862) : see p. 10. 



17. Nesis tricolor, Walker. 



Euryhrachys tricolor, Walker, List Horn. B. M. ii, p. 384 (1851). 

 Nesis tricolor, Stal, R. J. Hem. ii, p. 67 (1862) ; Stettin Ent. Zeit. xxiv, p. 248 

 (1863). 



? . Sanguineous ; head weakly olivaceous, frons margined fuscous at 

 the base ; tegmina blackish, weaker at the apex, variegated with con- 

 fluent sordid stramineous-powdered spots ; wings whitish. Differs from 

 N. sanguini]jeSj Stal, in not having the tegmina distinctly narrowed 

 towards the apex. Vertex a little longer in the middle than at the eyes, 

 anteriorly broadly rounded : frons flat, aciculate : thorax bi-impressed in 

 the middle : scutellum unicarinate : tegmina scarcely narrowed towards 

 the apex, costal and commissural margins subparallel, obliquely broadly 

 rounded at the apex, transverse veinlets rare, fine (/S^d^J. Long, 9 ; 

 exp. teg., 28 millims. 



Reported from India. 



18. NeSIS (F) SANGUINIPES, Stal. 

 AphcBna sanguinipes, Stal, Ofvers, K. V.-A. Forh. xi, p. 245 (1854). 



Head, sordid yellow-testaceous ; thorax and scutellum obscurely 

 rufous-testaceous : tegmina black-fuscous with two indistinct bands and 

 several posterior spots yellow farinose ; beneath with feet sanguineous 

 (8tdl). Long, 8 ; broad, 4 millims. 



Reported from India. 



