34 E. T. Atkinson— J^''ofe5 on Indian Rhyncliota. [No. 1, 



Head much narrower than tlie tliorax ; vertex narrow, compressed, 

 narrower by half than the eyes, passing over into the frons which is long, 

 gradually narrowed upwards, much compressed between the eyes, with- 

 out a ridge, furnished with an ocellus at the apex ; median ridge of 

 clypeus less distinct, lateral margins carinated : eyes beneath sinuated : 

 antennae inserted beneath the eyes, first joint exserted, second longer than 

 thick : thorax very short, angularly emarginated at the base : scutellum 

 tricarinate : tegmina gradually somewhat amplified towards the apex ; 

 radial and exterior ulnar vein united near the base : feet moderate, sim- 

 ple j last tibi89 unarmed (Stdl), 



dl, Brixia meander, Walker. 



Cixius meandert Walker, List Horn. B. M. ii, p. 349 (1851), 



Brixia meander, Stal, Ofvers. K. V.-A. Forh. p. 487 (18G2). 



Body tawny : frons long and narrow with a row of brown spots 

 along each side of the diso which is also brown : rostrum tawny : eyea 

 large : pronotum on both sides obliquely tricarinate : disc of the mesono- 

 tum brown : legs tawny, slightly sulcated : each femur with two brown 

 rings : tegmina almost colourless, adorned with several waved brown 

 bands which are partly confluent or interrupted, discs of the spaces 

 between them occupied by paler brown bands : a large yellow spot on 

 the anterior margin ; veins pale fitramineous, thickly dotted with 

 black knots (WalJcer), Body long, 4 J j teg., 10|; millims. 



Reported from India, 



Genus Benna, Walker. 

 J. Linn. Soo. Zool. I, p. 90 (1856) : 8tal, Hem. Afric. iv, p. 166 (1866). 

 Body rather slender, head a little narrower than the thorax with 

 a ridge which extends from the back of the vertex to the rostrum ; 

 eides also ridged ; frons compressed, elongate-subfusiform : 1 — 2 joints 

 antennae a little shorter together than the breadth of the front ; filament 

 not long : thorax tricarinate, pronotum very short : abdomen at the 

 base with two lateral capitate appendages like the halteres of Bijptera^ tip 

 terminating in a long, curved oviduct : legs rather long and slender : 

 tegmina and wings broad, rounded at the tips, the former with about 

 twenty areolets, the discal generally shorter than the basal and marginal. 

 (Walker.) 



Frons with a longitudinal ridge narrowed upwards, scarcely distin- 

 guishable from the vertex : first joint of the antennjB prominulous, second 

 longer than broad : abdomen furnished on both sides at the base with a 

 long, filiform, clavate process : tegmina gradually amplified from the base 

 towards the apex ; the costal margin slightly sinuated towards the base ; 

 the radial and ulnar veins separately emitted from the ulnar trunk or 

 somewhat contiguous at the base itself {StU) . 



