1886.] B. T. Atkinson — Notes on Indian Rhynchota. 57 



9 . Body ferruginous : head as broad as the thorax ; vertex very 

 short, posteriorly sinuate, very slightly rounded in front, shorter in the 

 middle than on each side ; frons flat, rounded on each side, narrower 

 towards the clypeus, bordered by a rim, concave where it joins the 

 clypeus, not ridged, its breadth nearly twice its length : clypeus trian- 

 gular : pronotum ' very short, arched, bordered by a rim : mesonotum 

 black, not ridged : metanotum tawny : abdomen obconical, tawny at the 

 base, hardly longer than the thorax : legs tawny : tegmina brown, 

 ample, a tawny triangular spot on the anterior margin beyond the 

 middle ; two broad, oblique, very irregular, colourless bands on the disc, 

 first short, second interrupted ; veins tawny, longitudinal veins numerous, 

 transverse veins few ; anterior margin slightly convex, along it a row of 

 parallel transverse veins which are contorted and more oblique towards 

 the tip : wings pale greyish-brown (Walker). Body long, 5j ; teg., 16f 

 millims. 



Reported from N. India. 



79. RiCANiA PKOMiNENS, Walker. 

 Ricania prominens, Walker, Ins. Saund. Horn. p. 48 (1858). 



Dull testaceous : head with eye and antennse forming a large verti- 

 cal compartment ; vertex transverse, very short, mostly covered by the 

 pronotum ; frons with transverse blackish marks, very much longer than 

 broad, with elevated borders and three slight ridges, the middle one 

 abbreviated, the pair converging towards the face, where they are 

 connected ; face lanceolate, ridged : pronotum bicarinate, very convex 

 along the fore border ; mesonotum with a brown interlined disc and two 

 blackish dots on each side ; metanotum and abdomen dark brown, the 

 latter with a pale testaceous stripe on each side : legs testaceous, femora 

 slightly streaked with black : tegmina with brown marks along the costa 

 and with a few brown marks elsewhere and with an irregular whitish 

 subapical band ; stigma whitish ; veinlets regular along the costa arxd 

 along the exterior border where they are mostly forked, the discal veins 

 and veinlets irregular, the latter numerous ; wings with very few vein- 

 lets ; both vitreous grayish, veins black and the exterior borders brown 

 {Walker). Body long, 8|- ; teg., 25 millims. 



Reported from Silhat. 



80. Ricania guttifera, Walker. 



Pochazia guttifera, Walker, List Horn. B. M. ii, p. 427 (ISfil). 

 Ricania guttifera, Stil, Ofvers. K. ^'.-A. Forh. p. 491 (1862) ; Distant, J. A. S. 

 B. xlviii (2), p. 38 (1879). 



