1885.] E. T. Atkinson — Notes on Indian Rhyncliota. 147 



Fuscous ; head, thorax, and feet concolorous : basal half of tegmina 

 virescent, sprinkled with numerous minute dull black spots, apices sub- 

 orange-hjaline marked with cretaceous spots : basal half of wings green- 

 ish with the posterior part whitish, spotted black, apices fuscous, irro- 

 rated with virescent spots {Hope) . Long 14^ : exp. teg. 4G millims. 



Reported from Silhat. 



32. Aphana nicobarica, Stal. 



Aphana nicobarica, Stal, Berlin Ent. Zeitschr. xiii, p. 241 (1869). 



Sordid olivaceous- green : scutellum, pectus, abdomen, and feet 

 black-fuscous : tegmina before the middle eeruginous, sprinkled with 

 black ; behind the middle, ochraceous, marked with a band and mouldy 

 spots ; apical limbus, black ; wings, black, a very large basal spot coeru- 

 lean- virescent. Long 19 ; exp. teg. 55 millims, ? . 



Size of A. farinosa, Burm., from which it differs in the head pro- 

 duced anteriorly, seen from above equal in length and breadth between 

 the eyes, roundly-angulated ; frons longer, furnished with a recurved 

 process. Frons rugulose, tumescent at the base and with a median 

 process short, compressed, recurved, obsoletely tricarinate, the ridges 

 diverging upwards, the median ridge disappearing below the middle : 

 vertex narrowed forwards, obsoletely carinate in the middle ; lateral 

 margins dilated, elevated : thorax furnished with a raised, acute ridge, 

 running through it, strongly bi-impressed on the disc, scutellum tricari- 

 nate. The eeruginous half of the tegmina covered with minute and often 

 confluent black dots, closer at the apex ; apical half ochraceous with the 

 apical limbus black ; the spots and an anterior band clothed with a 

 white powdery substance : wings black with a large basal patch ex- 

 tended a little beyond the middle, caerulean- virescent. Apical margins of 

 the dorsal segments of the abdomen, green {Stal) . 



Reported from the Nicobars. 



33. Aphana (?) dives, Walker. 



Aphoena dives, Walker, List Horn. B. M. ii, p. 280 (1851). 



Body dark ferruginous ; disc of the vertex rather concave, borders 

 slightly ridged, fore margin slightly inclined upwards : rostrum ex- 

 tending far beyond the posterior coxse, dark brown : mesonotum with a 

 slight longitudinal furrow, fore-border very undulating ; a black band 

 along the fore-border of the scutellum ; metanotum black : abdomen 

 obconical, larger than the thorax, black above, thickly covered with 

 white down, red beneath : legs black, sulcated, femora brown, posterior 

 tibijB spinose : tegmina green, adorned between the veins with orange 

 streaks which are interrupted by very numerous brown dots, the latter are 



