1885.] E. T. Atkinson — Notes on Indian Rhynchota. 149 



11 — 12 large black spots, the purplish part reticulated with whitish ; 

 the end brownish-black ; a bluish-green band-like mark across the raid- 

 die of the wing, not nearly reaching the hind margin, the three nerves 

 traversing it are black ; tegmina and wings beneath almost same as 

 above : head and thorax above greenish ; prothorax finely, transversely 

 striated, a line, down the middle, shining : abdomen black, margins yel- 

 low, segments slightly powdered with white, vulvar scales red : legs 

 brown, tibise of hind legs tridentate on the outside {White). Exp. teg. 

 61 millims. 



Reported from Silhat : the Indian Museum possesses specimens from 

 Sikkim, Red: metanotum black: abdomen with a red transverse line at 

 the base ; tip red beneath : tegmina with black spots along the costa and 

 with some more or less interrupted and irregular black bands ; more 

 than one-third of the apical part black with very numerous and regular 

 black veins and veinlets : wings black, basal half red with several black 

 spots ; a white middle band, not extending to the hind border {A. 

 placahilis, Walker). Body long 16| ; teg. 54| millims. This is the 

 reddish-brown variety. 



36. Ltcorma punicea, Hope. 



Lystra "punicea, Hope Trans, Linn. Soc. xix, p. 133, t. 12. f. 5 (1843) ; Walker, 

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



Aphcena delectahilis, Walker, 1. c. Snppt. p. 44 (1858). 

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



Reddish purple, head and thorax paler ; basal half of tegmina 

 tinted rosy and sprinkled with numerous black spots ; apex hyaline 

 f uscous-puniceous with a pellucid mark in the middle of the disc : wings 

 puniceous at the base, marked by black spots, whitish in the middle and 

 fuscous-hyaline, at the apex {Hope). Long 12| ; exp. teg. 48 millims. 



Ferruginous brown, black beneath : antennae bright red ; pronotum 

 dull green with some very minute, testaceous, brown-bordered spots : 

 abdomen black : hind borders of the segments luteous on each side, 

 beneath : legs black : tegmina black, whitish green with black spots for 

 about one-third from the base, outline of the green part much excavated 

 with some streaks same hue near it ; veins green : wings bright red 

 with black spots, apical part blackish brown, divided from the red part 

 by a bright greenish blue band which does not extend to the hind 

 margin. {A. delectahilis, Walker). Body long, 12 J ; exp, teg. 42 

 millims. 



Reported from N. China, Shanghai, India, Silhat. The Indian 

 Museum possesses a mutilated specimen from the Dikrang valley, As- 

 sam. 



