1885.] E. T. Aikinson — Notes on Indian Rliynchota. 145 



towards the base and a little orange in the middle and on the side of 

 the anterior border : tip with a large black patch, adorned with small 

 blue spots ; posterior margin slightly infuscate and disc with 16 — 17 

 small, nearly equal, black spots and four small white spots placed in the 

 orange portion (Guerin). Long, 15 : exp. teg. 37 millims. 

 The Indian form (A. io, Walker) is thus described : — 

 Body yellowish-brown ; head and mesonotum punctured black, 

 carinate ; rostrum brown, as long as the body ; metanotum, red ; abdo- 

 men bright red ; beneath, spotted black with a black stripe along each 

 side and a brown posterior margin on each segment : legs black, femora 

 and tibice flavo-annulate, posterior tibice spinose : tegmina yellowish- 

 brown with numerous black marks which are confluent and form a black 

 spot at the tip of the hind border ; this spot has a yellowish-white spot 

 adjoining ; wings luteous, red at the base and along the inner border, 

 with about 12 black and 4 white spots, brown along the hind border, 

 terminating in a very large black spot which has a blue disc (Walker). 

 Body long, 16^ ; exp. teg. 46 millims. 



Reported from China, Java, India : the Indian Museum possesses 

 specimens from Sikkim and the Andamans. 



29. Aphana variegata, Guerin. 



Aphmia variegata, Gnerin, Voy. Belanger Ind. Orien. Zool. p. 455 (1834) ; Icon. 

 -R^gne Anim., t. 58, f. 3 (1830-34) ; Spin., A. S. E. F. viii, p. 247 (1839) ; Walker, List 

 Horn. B. M. ii, p. 278 (1851). 



Penthicus variegatus, Blanohard, Hist. Nat. Ins. iii, p. l7l, Hem. t. 12, f. 4 

 (1840-41). 



Apha;na hasirufa, Walker, List Horn. B. M. ii, p. 278 (1851) : J. L. S. Zool. i, 

 p. 143 (1857). 



A-phana variegata, Am. & Serv., Hist. Nat. Ins. Hem. p. 497, t. 9, f. 1 (1843) ; 

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



Head flat in front, vvdth two slightly elevated ridges : pronotum 

 transverse, anterior border lobed and a little advanced, carinate in the 

 middle, with a hollow on each side behind the median lobe, and a little 

 emarginate posteriorly : mesonotum triangular, sides almost equal, 

 pointed behind, iricarinate in the middle, one ridge longitudinal, and 

 two lateral, curved : metanotum and abdomen bright red, separated by a 

 white, farinose, transverse baud ; the head, pro-, and meso-notum brown, 

 touching on deep olive-green. Tegmina brunneous, a little reddish at 

 the base, more greenish at the tip with black patches and round black 

 dots which increase in size towards the apex ; two square yellowish 

 patches at the middle third, one on the anterior, the other on the inte- 

 rior margin : wings much broader, a little sinuated on the posterior 

 margin ; the base up to one-third of their length bright red with three 



