54 E. T. Atkinson — Notes on Indian Rliynchota. [No. 1, 



In all respects similar to B. fasciata, Fabr., but without a hyaline 

 band or spot. Black-fuscous, beneath with feet and vertex sordid 

 yellow-livid ; tegmina and wings fuscous-pellucid, in certain positions 

 shining subviolaceous ; small marginal space on the tegmina at the costal 

 sinus obsoletely pallescent. Frons almost half broader than the length, 

 lateral margins slightly converging at the base, gradually rounded be- 

 neath the middle towards the apex, tricarinate, the m.edian ridge some- 

 what continued through, the two lateral more obsolete, continued from 

 the base scarcely to the middle : the apical margin of the tegmina 

 somewhat longer than the commissural margin, very slightly sinuate 

 between the middle and the apical angle, costal margin broadly distinctly 

 sinuate a little behind the middle : wings furnished posteriorly with 

 transverse veinlets arranged in two rows, the posterior row more regu- 

 lar : last tibiae armed with two distinct spines behind the middle and 

 before the middle (always ?) with a small spinule {Stal). Exp. teg., 

 41 millims. 



Reported from Java, Sumatra, Borneo, Malacca, Singapore, Tenas- 

 serim. 



72. RiCANIA SINUATA, Stal. 



Pochazia sinuata, Stal, Of vers. K. Y.-A. Forh. p. 160 (1865). 



Pochazia fasciata, Am. & Serv. [nee Fabr.], Hist. Nat. Ins. Hem. p. 528, t. 9, 

 f. 7 (1843) : Walker, List Hom. B. M. ii, p. 426 (1851) ; J. Linn. Soc. Zool. i, p. 91 

 (1856). 



5 . Blackish ; beneath with feet fuscous-testaceous ; tibiae and tarsi, 

 paler ; tegmina and wings black-fuscous, the former slightly shining 

 violaceous ; a band on the tegmina placed behind the middle abbreviated 

 near the costal margin and sometimes interrupted, and a median band 

 on the wings abbreviated towards the anal area, whitish. Stature 

 entirely of B. fumata, A. & S. : the frons with obsolete longitudinal 

 striae and three obsolete ridges : wings behind the middle with two 

 abbreviated transverse rows of transverse veinlets ; costal apical angle of 

 tegmina a little more produced than in B. fumata (Stal). This species 

 is often confounded with B. fasciata, Fabr., which is somewhat like in the 

 marking, but differs in having the costal and apical margins of the tegmina 

 straight and not sinuated, the exterior apical angle less produced and the 

 head somewhat narrower, and is moreover an African species. Long, 8^ ; 

 exp. teg., 35 millims. 



Reported from Singapore, Malacca. 



73. RiCANiA SPECULUM, Walker. 



Flatoides speculum, "Walker, List Hom. B. M. ii, p. 406 (1851). 

 Flatoides tenehrosus, Walker, 1. c. p. 406 (1851) : J. Linn. Soc. Zool. i, p. 89 

 (1856). 



