1886.] E. T. Atkinson— JVo#e-9 on Indian Rliyncliota. 155 



23. HuECHYS PiCTA, Walker. 

 Huechys picta, Walker, Ins. Saund. Horn. p. 28 (1858). 



^ , ? Black : head with two testaceous bands : pronotum with a 

 testaceous band on the hind border which is broad in the ? and extends 

 in the middle to the fore border : mesonoturn with a testaceons border 

 and with two testaceons stripes which are broader in the 2 : abdomen 

 red with a black dorsal stripe : tegmina blackish, with a testaceous discal 

 spot near the base, an interrupted testaceous band and two exterior sub- 

 costal dots : in the ? the discal spot is almost obsolete and there is only 

 one dot : wings crimson, with black borders ( Walker) . Body long, 

 19—21 ; teg. 60—52 millims. 



Reported from Assam, Java. 



Genus Scieroptera, Stal. 

 J. A. S. B. liii, (2), p. 220. 



Head scarcely narrower than the base of the thorax ; frons slightly 

 tumid occupying a little more than one-third of the breadth of the face, 

 without a longitudinal furrow ; vertex more than twice broader than the 

 eyes : the ocelli as far from the eyes as from each other or a little far- 

 ther : rostrum not extended behind the intermediate cox^ : first femora 

 etout, spinose beneath ; first tibiae somewhat equal in length to the 

 femora : six apical areas, ulnar veins contiguons at the base or united 

 for a short space (Stal) . 



24. Scieroptera crocea, Guerin. 



J. A. S. B. liii, (2), p. 220, no. 29. 



Yellow : head obscure brunneous ; spots red : thorax yellow ; pro- 

 and meso-notum each with two very large reddish-brown spots : abdo- 

 men croceous, more obsolete beneath ; feet yellow ; tibiee and tarsi, 

 black : tegmina and wings hyaline, veins yellow, anterior veins with the 

 membrane close to the veins, pale yellow (Guerin). 



25. Scieroptera splendidula, Fabricius. 



J. A. S. B. liii, (2), p. 220, no. 30. 



Small : head black ; eyes pale : thorax pale, with two large rounded 

 black spots : scutellum black, margin pale : abdomen red : tegmina fus- 

 cous with a very vivid golden reflection : first femora black, tibise very 

 stout, dentated, red : last pair of feet black, femora red {Fair.). 



