1888.] E. T. Atkinson— ^o/e5 07i Indian Rliyncliota. 171 



Genus Blachia, Walker. 



Cat. Het. i, p. 117 (1867) : includes Sesha, Dist., Trans. Ent. Soc. p. 343 (1887). 



Body short-oval, convex, shining : head about half the length and 

 about one-fifth of the breadth of the pronotum ; juga and tylus of 

 equal length ; rostrum moderately stout, extending to the last coxae ; 

 antennee slender, very minutely setulose, rather more than half the 

 length of the body, 2 — 5 joints successively slightly increasing in length : 

 pronotum thinly and finely punctured, nearly twice broader than long, 

 forming an acute angle on each side of i;he fore border, with an acute 

 diverging spine on each side posteriorly : scutellum slightly contracted 

 posteriorly, hardly extending beyond the corium : legs hardly stout, fore 

 femora with a spine beneath near the apex ; fore tibiae much dilated. 



278. Blachia ducalis, Walker. 



Blachia ducalis, Walker, Cat. Hem. i, p. 117 (1867). 



Sesha manifesta, Distant, Trans. Ent. Soc, p. 343, t. 12, f. 2 (1887). 



Testaceous : head with a small purple spot on each side of the 

 posterior margin : pronotum with five purple spots, of which two near 

 anterior margin are much smaller than the three in a transverse row 

 near posterior margin : scutellum with a very large purple spot on each 

 side near the base and with a purple spot on each side behind the mid- 

 dle : pectus with three purple patches on each side : abdomen beneath 

 on each side with an inner stripe of three purple spots and an outer 

 stripe of two purple spots : hemelytra with a large purple spot joining the 

 middle of the costa and a smaller apical purple spot ; membrane colour- 

 less with two broad brown streaks, one capitate ; wings brown {Walker). 

 Body, long, 10|— 12 mill. 



Keported from Siam, Sikkim (mihi). 



Genus Cazira, Am. & Serv. 



Hist. Nat. Ins. Hem. i, p. 78 (1843J : Dallas, List. Hem. i, p. 82 (1851) ; Walker, 

 Cat. Het. i, p. 117 (1867): Stal, Hem. Afric. i, p. 62 (1864): En. Hem. i, p. 38 

 (1870). 



Body somewhat short, stout : scutellum with vesicular tubercles at 

 the base : venter at the base with a small spine directed forwards and 

 not extending beyond the insertion of the posterior feet : all the femoi'a 

 with a spine beneath towards the apex ; anterior tibia? much dilated : 

 rest as in Aii02ms {Am. ^^ Serv.). 



