144 E. T. Atkinson — Notes on Indian Rhyncliota. [No. 3, 



oclireous ; mesonotnm reddish-brown : tegmina of a red brown in the 

 basal two- thirds with two large black spots on the external margin, 

 another towards the end of the second third, in the middle ; two other 

 smaller black dots, one at the base and the other towards the end of the 

 first third near the internal margin, and other smaller black dots sprink- 

 led here and there : the apical third of the tegmina sordid yellowish or 

 dull brown : wings bright red with the apex black, sprinkled with bluish 

 spots or patches, the red disc also has four white patches, of which one 

 is very small, with some dozen round black dots strewn about behind 

 them : abdomen red above : body and feet, beneath, reddish-brown (Am. 

 Sf Serv.) Long, 17 ; exp. teg. 46 millims. 



Reported from Sumatra, Java, N. India : the Indian Museum 

 possesses one abraded specimen exactly agreeing with the above des- 

 scription, locality unknown, and another from Marri (Panjab). There is 

 a series from Sikkim agreeing in most respects except that the base of the 

 wings is ochreous not sanguineous. 



28. Aphana pulchella, Guerin. 



Aphcena pulchella, Guerin, Voy. la Coqnille, Zool. ii (2), p. 189 (1830) ; Spinols, 

 A. S. E. F. viii, p. 294 (1835) ; Walker, List Horn. B. M., ii, p. 274 (1851) } Stal, 

 Of vers. K. V.-A., Forh. p. 485 (1862) ; Java. 



Aphana confucius, White, A. M. N. H. xviii, p. 24 (1846) : China. 



Ap}i(Bna Confucius, Walker, 1. c. p. 280 (1851) : China. 



AphcBfia io, Walker, List Horn. B. M. ii, p. 279 (1851) : N. India. 



Aphana nigro-irrorata, Stal, Ofvers. K. V.-A. Forh. p. 244 (1854) : China. 



Aphccna nigro-irrorata, Stal, Freg. Eug. Resa, Ins., p. 270 (1859) : Hong-Kong. 



Aphana pulchella, Stal, Stettin Ent. Zeit., xxiv, p. 232 (1863). 



Smaller than A. atomaria, Fabr., from which it differs in not having 

 the head and thorax yellow, by the tegmina spotted with irregular 

 black dots and the feet yellowish, annulated blackish. Head pro- and 

 meso-notum yellowish punctured grey ; metanotum and abdomen 

 Vermillion, two small black spots on the former and weak black bands 

 on the three first segments of the abdomen, which also show traces of 

 being covered with a white cottony substance : head and thorax beneath 

 of a fairly deep yellowish-brown with a white patch between the inter- 

 mediate and posterior coxaa : abdomen beneath ochreous yellow, punctured 

 black, the lateral margin of each segment with a black excavation, 

 filled with a white powdery substance ; feet brown, annulated yellow. 

 Tegmina of a somewhat faded saffron-yellow, semitransparent, more 

 yellow towards the apex, covered with numerous small black dots, a few 

 larger ; towards the tip and the interior margin a whitish quadrate 

 spot, followed at the posterior and external angle by a brown patch con- 

 fluent with the small black dots of the apex : wings vermillion, carmine 



