S'l'O E. T. Atkinson — New or h'tflo hiown Indian Rhyncliota. [No. 4, 



brown : venter with transverse bands and marginal row of spots, black. 



Frons very broad, broader than the pronotum which is about as 

 long as the vertex : head prominulous before the eyes which are spinose 

 beneath : tegmina slightly sinuate on the costal margin behind the 

 middle, apical margin anteriorly broadly rounded, posteriorly sub- 

 quadrate, posterior margin somewhat straight : first femora gradually 

 amplified from base to apex ; first tibiae dilated throughout, last tibi83 

 6-spinose. Long, 15 : exp. teg., 46 mill. 



Hab. Trivandrum (S. India) : Mr. H. Ferguson ; May. 



Messena burmanica, n. sp. 



Frons, vertex and thorax dark reddish-tawny : eyes darker, spinose 

 beneath ; antennae truncate with a rather long filiform process at the 

 apex : abdomen above sordid ochreous, basal third darker : tegmina 

 with the basal fourth tawny, varied virescent and with a quadrate, black 

 spot on the disc, apical three-fourths whitish, veins tawny, an irregular 

 black patch near the commissure, and an irregular row of somewhat 

 quadrate black spots and dots close to the apical margin of which the 

 largest is on the posterior margin : wings with three large, oblong, 

 transverse black spots towards the apex : abdomen beneath reddish 

 tawny, the margin tinted orange : first femora and intermediate pair of 

 feet, blackish-brown. Closely allied to M. pulverosa, Hope, differs in the 

 markings on the tegmina which are also not so broad, and in the colour 

 of the abdomen. Long with anal appendages, 17 ; exp. teg., 50 mill. 



Hab. Palone (Burma) : Captain Bingham (August). 



Ceeyjjia viridula, n. sp. 



Head and thorax above light green, in faded specimens, sordid 

 yellow : tegmina light green ; wings milky-white, immaculate : apical 

 half of antennas, eyes, two small lines on tegmina, one oblique in the 

 middle towards the posterior margin, the other smaller, straight, at the 

 beginning of the apical fourth and nearer the anterior margin, also a 

 very narrow apical limbus reaching also to one-third of the posterior 

 margin, deep black : abdomen covered with a white flocculent sub- 

 stance : feet greenish-yellow, tarsi black. Body long, 17 : exp. teg. 

 49 mill. 



Hab. Puna (Bombay) : type in Indian Museum. 



The type of the Genus Cerynia (J. Pt. II, p. 64, 1885) is Flata alhata, 

 Stal, already described (J. 1. c. p. 73) and of which I have recently 

 procured specimens of the white and pale green varieties from Malacca. 

 In the first line of the description of that species for ' within,' read 



