52 E. T. Aikiuson— Notes on Indian Rhynchota. [No. 1, 



Stature entirely of B. hyalina, Fabr., but smaller : body black : 

 tegmina fuscous, hyaline at the base, spot on the anterior margin and 

 punctures, fuscous ; in the middle a broad oblique hyaline band and nu- 

 merous spots, hyaline : entire wings obscure hyaline {Fahr.). Allied to 

 JB. mellerhorgi, Stal. 



Reported from Java. 



68. RiCANIA MELLERBORGI, Stal. 



Ricania mellerborgi, Stal, Ofvers. K. V.-A. Forh. xi, p. 247 (1854). 

 Flatoides discalis, Walker, J. Linn. Soc. Zool. i, p. 89 (1856) ; p. 156 (1857). 



Testaceous : tegmina fuscous with a large transverse patch and 

 spots on the margin, whitish-hyaline. Allied to B. fenestrata, Fabr. 

 Long., 5 ; exp. teg., 16 millims. 



Reported from Java, Borneo, Singapore, Burma. 



Walker's F. discalis, is black : frons much broader than long, with 

 a slightly elevated margin and slightly tricarinate : posterior margins 

 of segments of abdomen and the legs dull testaceous : tegmina blackish, 

 with a testaceous dot on the tip of each vein ; disc limpid ; two limpid 

 dots on the costa and two towards the tip of the exterior border : wings 

 limpid with brown borders. Body long, 6j ; teg., 16J millims. 



69. Ricania obscura, Fabricius. 



Flata obscura, Fabricius, Syst. Rhyng, p. 49 (1803) ; Germar in Thon's Archir. 

 ii (2) p. 49 (1830) : Walker, J. Linn. 6oc. Zool. i, p. 92 (1856) ; p. 161 (1857). 

 Pochazia obscura (?) Walker, List Horn. B. M. ii, p. 426 (1851). 

 Etcama obscura, Stal, Hem. Fabr. ii, p. 104 (1869). 



$ . Pale testaceous-flavescent, vertex and thorax fuscous-testace- 

 ous, scutellum black : tegmina ferruginous-fuscous, sprinkled pale before 

 the middle and in the middle, and with small pale transverse lines, an 

 unequal narrow band placed behind the middle and the costal membrane 

 obscurely fuscous, the extreme part of its margin pallid, a small oblique 

 transverse line, behind the middle of the costal margin, whitish : wings 

 f uscescent, apical margin of the two last ventral segments black towards 

 the sides. Frons about one-third shorter than broad, gradually roundly 

 narrowed towards the apex, distinctly tricarinate : scutellum 5-carinate, 

 lateral ridges oblique : tegmina triangular ; claval suture and apical 

 margin equally long, the latter very slightly subrotundate ; costal mar- 

 gin, gradually slightly rounded ; apical commissural angle somewhat 

 obtusish, distinct ; apical costal angle somewhat rounded ; longitudinal 

 veins rather numerous, transverse discoidal veins rare ; the posterior 

 transverse veins arranged in two rows, the anterior irregular, the poa- 



