190 E. T. Atkinson — Notes on Indian Rhyncbota. [No. 2, 



a less distance than the first : abdomen stout, inflated, broader than the 

 thorax, a little compressed on its upper surface on both sides, so as to 

 form a kind of ridge (A. 8f S.f Stdl). 



84. MoQANNTA CONIGA, Germar. 



J. A. S. B. liii, (2), p. 232, nos. 85 (M. illustrataj, 86 (M. recta) ; lir, (2), p. 117 : 

 includes also Cephaloxys hemelytra, Signoret, A. S. E. F. (2 ser.) v, p. 295 ; Mogannia 

 ignifera, Walker, List Horn. B. M. i, p. 249 (1850), from Java, and Mogannia 

 avicula, Walker, 1. c. p. 249 (1850), from Java and the Philippines. 



cf. Ferruginous : abdomen with a red band on the posterior mar- 

 gin of each segment : tegmina and wings vitreous, red at the base, 

 veins tawny ; the tegmina tawny for more than one- third of the length 

 from the base and having a brown upright band dividing the tawny 

 from the vitreous part ; the wings brown along the basal part of the 

 hind border (M. recta, Walker). 



85. Mogannia obliqua. Walker. 



J. A. S. B. liii, (2), p. 232, no. 87. 



? . Green, mostly reddish beneath : head black along the hind 

 border : pronotum with some testaceous marks and a black stripe dilated 

 backwards : mesonotum with some testaceous marks and a black stripe 

 dilated before and behind : abdomen reddish with a spot on each side 

 near the base and a short band hindward of pale sericeous pile, two 

 green bands near the tip : legs piceous ; posterior tibias and tarsi pale 

 green : tegmina and wings vitreous, red at the base, veins green black 

 towards the tips ; the tegmina have a red costa, a brown baud extend- 

 ing from the tip of the front areolet obliquely to the hind border, whence 

 it is continued obliquely towards the base of the wing ( Walker) . 



86. Mogannia venustissima, Stal. 



J. A. S. B. liii, (2), p. 232, no. 88. 

 c? ? . Caerulean or brassy black, sordid flavescent- sericeous : teg- 

 mina before the middle and the wings sordid hyaline ; the tegmina veined 

 sordid straw-colour, before the middle black, at the base pale sangui- 

 neous • the wings veiaed f ascous, sanguineous at the base. 



Var. a. Basal spot on frons and oblong median spot on the thorax, 



sanguineous. 



Var. b. Entire frons, median streak on the thorax contracted in 

 the middle, also veins and band on the black part of the tegmina, weak 

 sanguineous-flavescent ; abdomen varying into ferruginous (Stdl). 



