liQ E. T. Atkinson— JVo!^t'5 on Indian Rliynchota. [No. 3, 



black spots and an obscure patcli ; middle tliird orange yellow grounded 

 with red, above 2-3 small white dots and below a small black spot : the 

 apex is black with more or less numerous or confluent small blue dots ; 

 posterior margin from this black portion to the internal angle is broadly 

 bordered brown. Body beneath concolorous with the thorax, feet more 

 blackish (Guerin). Long, 20 ; exp. teg. 55 millims. 



Reported from Cochin- China, Philippines, Silhat : the Indian 

 Museum possesses specimens from Sikkim. 



30. Aphana caja, Walker. 



Aphmna caja, Walker, List Horn. B. M. ii, p. 278 (1851). 

 Apha.na caja, Stal, Stettin Ent. Zeit. xxiv, p. 235 (1863). 



Fuscous-ochraceous ; thorax palely granulate towards the sides ; 

 tegmina fawn-colour or palely olivaceous, clouded with black-fuscous 

 and sprinkled with minule black-fuscous spots, further, behind the 

 middle, adorned with a pallid subquadrate spot at the costal and com- 

 missural margins : wings croceous, sanguineous at the base, a small 

 oblique, basal streak and 5-7 spots in anal half, black-fuscous ; 3-4 

 small white discoidal spots in the anterior area ; posterior limbus nar- 

 rowly fuscous ; apical part black-fuscous, sprinkled with glaucous- 

 mouldy S]3ots ; abdomen sanguineous, dorsum with a double row of 

 black spots, beneath fuscous-sanguineous : feet spotted olivaceous. 

 $, long 21 ; exp. teg, 62 millims. 



Nearly allied to A. variegata, Gu^riu, but larger, spots on the teg- 

 mina larger, wings sanguineous only at the base, posterior fuscous limbus 

 narrower and especially with the vertex shorter, nearly thrice broader 

 than long, more obtusely rounded, transverse basal keel straight, ante- 

 rior margin less deeply sinuate in the middle : frons subequal at the 

 base and the apex, not distinctly narrower at the base, anterior produced 

 part of thorax more obtusely rounded. Frons somewhat longer than 

 broad, lateral margins slightly broadly bisinuate, with two obtuse 

 ridges diverging upwards and with an obsolete longitudinal ridge to- 

 wards the base, the median area at the base very broadly rounded : 

 thorax marked before the middle with two obsolete pallid spots 

 {Stdl). 



Reported from Silhat. 



31. Aphana dimidiata, Hope. 



Lystra dimidiata, Hope, Trans. Linn. Soc. xix, p. 133, t. 12, f. 4 (1845) ; 

 Walker, List Horn. B. M. ii, p. 286 (1851). 



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



