G4 E. T. Atkinson — Notes on Indian Rhjnohota. [ISTo. 1, 



215. Strachia platyspila, Walker, Cat. Het. ii, p. 337 (1867). 

 Grass-green, broad, oval, sinning, thinly and roughly punctured : 



head slightly ochraceous- tinged, transversely and finely striated on each 

 side ; three black spots on the hind border, the middle one much larger 

 than the other two ; sides slightly reflexed ; tylas extending a little 

 beyond the juga : rostrum black, green at the base, extending to the 

 hind coxse : pronotum with an ochraceous patch on the fore part of the 

 disc, and one on each hind angle ; six elongated black spots ; two trans- 

 verse in front, four between the hind angles, which are much rounded : 

 scutellum with two large transverse black spots, on the fore border, and 

 with posterior elongated much larger black spots, which are nearly con- 

 tiguous ; tip rather broad ; pectus and under side of abdomen with five 

 stripes of large black spots : legs moderately long and slender ; femora 

 with some black dots : hemelytra with three very large black spots ; 

 apical half of the corium ochraceous ; membrane blackish, with a broad 

 pellucid border (Walker). Long, 9| mill. 

 Reported from Penang, Tenasserim. 



216. Strachia pardalis, Walker, Cat. Het. ii, p. 330 (1867). 



Bright orange-red or luteous, broad, oval, shining, thinly and rough- 

 ly punctured, pale yellow or white beneath : head transversely and very 

 finely striated, with three black spots, which are connected with the 

 black line along the hind border ; an elongated black spot on the tylus, 

 which extends somewhat beyond the juga; sides slightly reflexed: 

 rostrum black towards the tip, extending to the hind coxse : antennae 

 piceous, more than half the length of the body ; first and second joints 

 blight red ; first not extending to the front of the head ; third bright 

 red towards the base, nearly twice the length of the second ; fourth a 

 little longer than the third and a little shorter than the fifth : pronotum 

 with six elongated black spots, which are partly bordered with pale 

 yellow or wholly bordered with white ; first and second spots transverse 

 on the fore border ; the other four near the hind border ; a black dot on 

 each hind angle, which is rounded ; sides slightly reflexed ; pale yellow 

 or white in front : scutellum broad and pale yellow or white at the tip ; 

 a curved red band, pale yellow on each side where it joins the fore 

 border, sometimes wholly white ; a slender red stripe, pale yellow to- 

 wards the tip or wholly white : pectus with six stripes of quadrate 

 black spots : abdomen above black with pale yellow spots on the con- 

 nexivum under side with two rows of large black spots on each side, a 

 black dot on the second segment, an abbreviated black band, which is 

 excavated on the hind border on the third segment, and another on the 

 fourth, a large black spot ou the fifth, and a transverse smaller one on 



