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



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

 bordered with a rim, sinuate behind, straight in front, its length in the 

 middle about half of that on each side : frons dark ferruginous with a 

 black border, very finely striated, rounded on each side, narrower to- 

 wards the clypeus, bordered by a rim, hardly sinuated where it joins the 

 clypeus, having a middle ridge which does not reach tlfe fore- border, its 

 breadth nearly twice its length : clypeus triangular, with a middle ridge : 

 pronotum slightly sinuate behind more rounded on the anterior margin, 

 with a middle ridge much longer in the middle than on each side ; meso- 

 notum 5-carinate, the two ridges on each side united on the disc : abdo- 

 men obconical, a little longer than the thorax, ferruginous towards 

 the base : legs ferruginous : tegmina triangular, ample, dark brown 

 blackish along the fore-border, with three colourless spots, one on the 

 fore-border beyond the middle, one near the tip and one which is smaller 

 near the hind border : a white dot on the disc and between it and the 

 tip a small indistinct, tawny spot ; veins blackish, tawny on the colour- 

 less spots, longitudinal veins very numerous towards the tips, transverse 

 veins free ; fore-border straight, along it a row of oblique, mostly 

 parallel, transverse veins which are shorter towards the tip : wings dark 

 brown, little more than half the length of the tegmina {Walker). Body 

 long, 7— 8i ; teg., 29—36 millims. 

 Reported from Silhat (Assam) . 



Species doubtfully Indian. 



81. RiCANiA GUTTATA, Walker. 



Flatoides guttatuSy Walker, List Horn. B. M. ii, p. 408 (1856) : J. L. S. Zool. i, 

 p. 156 (1857). 



Ricania gvAtata, Stal, Of vers. K. V.-A. F5rh. p. 491 (1862). 



^ . Black : vertex piceous, frons dark ferruginous : pronotum fer- 

 ruginous : legs tawny, femora piceous : tegmina blackish-brown, with three 

 whitish-hyaline spots, one on the disc round, second larger and almost 

 triangular placed on the costal margia near the tip, third as large as the 

 first placed on the tip near the costal margin ; a row of colourless dots 

 along the tips of the tegmina ; veins blackish, pale on the spots. Body 

 long, 6i ; teg.; 21 millims. 



Reported from Hong Kong, Borneo. 



82. Ricania episcopus, Walker. 



Flatoides episcopus, Walker, List Horn. B. M. SuppL p. 100 (1858). 

 Ricania episcopus, Stal, Ofvers. K. V.-A. Fdrh., p, 491 (1862). 



Tawny, testaceous beneath : abdomen luteous : tegmina and wings 

 whitish ; the tegmina with three broad blackish bands which are con- 



