1886.] B. T. Atkinson — Notes on Indian Rhynchota. 151 



15. Tacua speciosa, Illiger. 



J. A. S. B. liii, (2), p. 217, no. 17. 



Black : pronotnm witli a narrow border anteriorly and a broad pos- 

 terior band yellow with a greenish tinge, posterior margin of mesonotal 

 cruciform elevation and two spots confluent with the margin orange- 

 yellow : abdomen black, 5-7 segments yellow above with a greenish tinge 

 and with a rounded black spot on the fifth segment : tegmina black 

 or brownish olive with a dark green tinge, veins sanguineous : wings 

 black with a broad sordid whitish limbus : feet black. 



Genus Tosena, Amyot & Serville. 

 J. A. S. B. liii, (2), p. 217. 



Head broad, triangular; frons very tumid without a longitudinal 

 groove in the middle : eyes stout, prominulous : lateral margins of 

 thorax very narrowly somewhat dilated, forming a tooth before the 

 middle : the tegmina and wings entirely opaque with a weak, elevated, 

 transverse line in the middle of each tegmen : abdomen stout, inflated \ 

 opercula as in Taenia (A, ^ 8.). 



16. Tosena melanoptera, White. 



J. A. S. B. liii, (2), p. 217, no. 18. 



In size and colour resembles T. fasciata, Fabr. (reported from Java) 

 but in the latter, the veins of both tegmina and wings are of a very clear 

 ferruginous colour, the band is obscure yellow, there is a ferruginous line 

 (sometimes interrupted) on the front of the clypeus, the anterior margin 

 of the pronotum has four smal] ferruginous spots and the tips of the 

 femora are yellow. In T. melano^ptera, White, the veins of the tegmina 

 and wings are nearly entirely black, the band on the tegmina is whiter 

 and generally broader than in T, fasciata, the clypeus is entirely black, 

 there are no spots on the anterior margin of the pronotum, the yellow 

 marks above the antenna are smaller and the legs are of an uniform 

 black {White). 



17. Tosena mearesiana, Westwood.. 



J. A. S. B. liii, (2), p. 217, no. 19. 



Black: posterior margin of pronotum, yellow: mesonotum posteriorly 

 on both sides with an oblong, ferruginous spot : metanotum margined 

 fulvous: tegmina black fnscous, veins black: wings broadly testaceous : 

 anal area and slender apical margin,, fuscous ; veins black ( Westmood) , 

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