1888.] E. T. Atkinson — New or little known Indian Rhyncliota. 339 



the tegmina, and for this reason a side view of the cephalic process in 

 these three species is given. (Variety in Indian Museum.) 



J. A. S. B. Pt. II, p. 200, 1885 -.—Pijro^ps nohilis Westw., includes 

 Pyrojjs servillei, Spinola (A. S. E. F. viii, p. 237, t. 2, f. 1, 1839) from 

 Java. I have seen a specimen of the former from Malacca which differs 

 in no respect from Spinola's description and figure, except perhaps in 

 the lighter colour of the thorax and cephalic process, and this difference 

 may be due to the action of preservatives. P. javanensis, Dist. has also 

 been procured from Singapore. 



POLYDICTYA AFFINIS, n. sp. 



Erons, vertex and thorax, dark tawny : abdomen above sanguineous, 

 apical half above and beneath more ochreous and with blackish piitches ; 

 a white irised black dot on each side of the anterior segments : tegmina 

 bluish- virescent from the base nearly to the middle, the bluish colour 

 more distinctly seen beneath ; brownish towards the apex, veins brown ; 

 wings Vermillion at the base, thence semihy aline, veins brown : venter 

 and feet dark tawny ; first tibioo darker ; last tibiae 4-spinose : tegmina 

 nearly equally broad throughout, scarcely amplified towards the apex. 

 Long, 19 : exp. teg., 58 mill. 



Hab. Sikkim. 



Messena sinuata, n. sp. 



Frons tawny, levigate, shining, with a blackish limbus at the vei»tex 

 marked by two rows of very minute yellow-brown dots : vertex and 

 pro- and meso-notum darker, with several irregular, minute, black dots : 

 metanotum and the abdomen above and mesostethium sanguineous, apex 

 of abdomen and the genitalia covered with a white flocculent substance : 

 tegmina with a broad reddish patch reaching the posterior margin 

 for two-thirds the length from the base, and the costal margin for 

 one-third, marked by numerous, irrregular, transverse black streaks, 

 and bounded, towards the apex, by a nebulous interrapted band of brown 

 marks, between which and the apex is a broadish transverse patch and 

 some small spots, brown and black ; apical part semi-hyaline closely 

 reticulated, veins brown : wings white, semi-hyaline, with a fuscous 

 patch along the anterior margin becoming broader and darker from the 

 base to about two-thirds the length where it abruptly ceases ; also three 

 large black spots towards the apex and between them and the apical 

 margin some minute black dots : first femora (except the apex inter- 

 nally) and the intermediate pair of feet, tawny : first femora at the apex 

 internally and last pair of feet dark brown, first tibiie thickly spotted dark 



