28 E. T. Atkinson — Notes on Indian Rhyncliota. [No. 1, 



Body pale luteous, almost fusiform : head above witli a short green 

 stripe which does not extend beyond the vertex, the lateral edges of which 

 are also green ; beneath bright hiteons with a pale green border, the median 

 ridge extending to the clypeus, bright green ; clypeus tawny, striped with 

 brown towards the tip : rostrum pale tawny : pronotum striped green ; 

 mesonotum wdth three indistinct green stripes : abdomen green, a brown 

 stripe on the disc, pale tawny at the tip : legs pale tawny, partly striped 

 with brown j hind tibiae with four black-tipped spines : tegmina and 

 wings colourless, the tips of the former pale yellowish-brown ; stigma 

 brown occupying three areolas ; veins green, brown towards the tips 

 (Walker). Body long, 9| ; teg., 16| millims. 



Reported from China : Assam (?). 



80. DiCTTOPHARA (?) NiGRiMACULA, Walker. 



Dictyojphora nigrimacula, Walker, List. Horn. B. M. ii, p. 318 (1851). 



d . Body fusiform : head as long as the thorax tapering slightly to 

 the tip which is obtuse, slightly elevated ; cephalic protuberance trans- 

 versely striated above and on each side ; upper side ferruginous ; vertex 

 with a median stripe, yellow, and lateral stripes, green, which last are 

 continued along near half the length to the tip j a black median stripe 

 extends from the vertex to the tips towards which it occupies the 

 whole disc ; sides black with tawny borders : under-side bright orange 

 red, having on each side a tawny brown- spotted stripe which in its 

 course becomes bright green and is continued along the clypeus ; the 

 bright green middle-ridge also extends along the whole length and is 

 pale yellow at each end ; the under side slightly widens along the whole 

 length from the tip to the clypeus, with the exception of a slight con- 

 traction between the eyes : clypeus reddish at its base, brown with 

 yellow stripes towards its tip : rostrum tawny with a black tip, reaching 

 the hind coxce ; pronotum ferruginous, slightly widened and almost angu- 

 lar in front, slightly sinuated along the posterior margin, with five bright 

 green ridges : the inner pair a little oblique, the outer pair more oblique 

 and parallel to the sides which are green ; the space beneath on each 

 side of the eyes is pyriform, red, with a green border and a bright green 

 median stripe : mesonotum black along the anterior margin, with three 

 bright green slightly interrupted stripes ; on each side near the base of 

 the tegmen is a bright green spot ; beneath black with a few yellow 

 stripes and a ferruginous border : abdomen black, obconical, a little 

 longer than the thorax with five rows of greenish-tawny spots, those of 

 the middle row are slender and form a slightly interrupted stripe, the 

 others are irregular and much emarginated : legs tawny, slightly 

 grooved, striped black, feet black towards the tips, posterior tibise armed 



