66 E. T. Atkinson — Notes on Indian Rhynchota. [No. 1, 



neath : legs tawny : tegmina and wings colourless with brown borders, 

 the former ample, a brown dot near the base, beyond it two slender brown 

 bands ; the first forming a brown ringlet on the disc between which and 

 the border it is widened and includes a colourless dot ; the second very 

 slight extending along the outer band of transverse veins ; veins tawny, 

 here and there brown : stigma tawny : wings with a brown exterior 

 border. Body long, 5 — 6J ; teg., 17 — 19 millims. 



Reported from China : the Indian Museum has a specimen from 

 Assam. 



77. RiCANiA INTERRUPTA, Walker. 



Pochazia interrupta, "Walker, List Horn. B. M. ii, p. 428 (1851) : neo P. inter' 

 rupta, J. L. S. Zool. i, p. 91 (1856). 



Ricania interrupta, Stal, Of vers. K. V.-A. Forh. p. 491 (1862). 



$ . Body black : head very short, as broad as the thorax ; vertex 

 very short, dark ferruginous, bordered by a rim, sinuate on the posterior 

 border, nearly straight in front, its length in the middle about half of 

 that on each side ; frons very finely striated, rounded on each side, 

 rather narrower towards the clypeus, bordered by a ferruginous rim, 

 slightly concave where it joins the clypeus, tricarinate, the lateral 

 ridges indistinct, its breadth a little less than twice its length ; clypeus 

 ferruginous, triangular, with a slight median ridge ; pronotum very 

 slightly sinuated behind, rounded anteriorly with a median ridge, on 

 each side of which there is an impression, its length in the middle 

 less than twice that on each side : mesonotum very finely striated, 5- 

 carinate, the two ridges on each side united on the disc : abdomen dark 

 ferruginous, obconical, a little longer than the thorax : legs ferruginous : 

 tegmina dark brown, ample, triangular, with a broad, oblique white 

 band which is interrupted in front ; a row of white dots extending on 

 the edge of the tegmen from the hind border along one-third of the dis- 

 tance to the tip ; veins blackish, pale yellow on the white parts ; longi- 

 tudinal veins very numerous ; transverse veins few ; fore-border straight, 

 along it a row of mostly parallel transverse veins which are more oblique 

 where the longitudinal vein appears contorted, beyond this they are 

 shorter : wings brown, little more than half the length of the tegmina 

 with a white band which forms one with that on the tegmina {Walker). 

 Body long, 6j ; teg,, 25 millims. 

 Reported from Malabar. 



78. Ricania simulans. Walker. 



Pochazia simulans, Walker, List Horn. B. M. ii, p, 431 (1851). 

 Ricania simulana, Still, Ofvers. K. V.-A. Forh, p. 491 (1862). 



