154 E. T. Atkinson — Notes on Indian Rhyncliota. [No. 2, 



black not piceons and the wings smoky- diaphanous (Fahr.) Head 

 thorax and feet, black ; entire frons, two large patches on the mesonotam 

 and the abdomen, red : tegmina black, tip sordid white : wings smoky 

 (A, ^^ 8.) 



21. HuECHTS SANGUiNEA, De Geer. 

 J. A. S. B. liii, (2), p. 218, no. 23. 



Head, thorax, pectus and feet, black, shining : frons, rounded, red : 

 entire abdomen red : thorax with two large patches in the shape of 

 elevated plates, red, of the colour of sealing-wax : eyes and oviduct in 

 the $ , brown : tegmina, elongate, somewhat broad, of a very obscure 

 brown approaching black ; longitudinal veins black, distinct : wings 

 transparent of a brownish tint, veins black : ocelli three, pale red : 

 antenn83 short, setiform, situate on a much stouter cylindrical part : 

 tegmina longer ttan the abdomen, wings a little shorter (De Geer). 



Head black : frons rufous, a longitudinal line and the rostrum* 

 black : thorax glabrous, black ; a rounded spot on both sides, red : 

 abdomen red : tegmina and wings obscurely fuscous immaculate : feet 

 black (H. eanguinolenta, Fabr.). Black, frons sanguineous, anteriorly 

 black : two spots on the mesonotum and the abdomen : tegmina and 

 wings, white ; veins black (R. incarnata, Germar) . This species is re- 

 ported from India and Germar remarks that it may be a variety of 

 0. sanguinolenta, Fabr. from which, however, it differs in the white, 

 black veined, tegmina, having the apical veins narrowly cinctured fus- 

 cous, and the white, black- veined wings broadly margined fuscous. 

 JH". Germari, Giierin, is probably also only a variety of this (Mag. Zool. 

 p. 78 ; t. 237, f. 2, 1839) : — Black, frons sangaineous, anteriorly black : 

 two spots in the mesonotum and the abdomen, red : tegmina white, 

 veined black, apical veins narrowly cinctured fuscoas : wings black- 

 fuscous, posterior lobe sub hyaline (Guerin) . Reported from Java. 



22. HxTECHYS STELLATA, Walker. 

 Huechys stellata, Walker, Ina. Saund. Horn. p. 27 (1858). 



Black : bead with two testaceous spots between the eyes : mesono- 

 tum with six testacous spots, four in the middle and two behind : teg- 

 mina with two broad, irregular, fawn-coloured bands which are connec- 

 ted on the costa, a middle interrupted white band consisting of three 

 large spots which are partly enclosed by the second broad band ; ten 

 exterior white dots on as many areolets : wings with five white dots 

 (Walker). Body long, 31-2 : teg. 92 millims. 



Reported from India. 



