156 E. T. Atkinson— iVo ^65 07i Indian Rliyncliota. [No. 3, 



Fuscous yellow : head flavescent : thorax brunneous ; abdomen dull 

 red; tegmina fuscous, reticulated yellow; wings at the base with a 

 ca^rulean incurved line forwards, posteriorly subroseous ; remainder 

 blackish (Hoj^e). Body long, 21 ; exp. teg. 56 millims. 



Reported from Sumatra, Silhat. There are at least two apparently 

 nndescribed species of this genus in the Indian Museum : one with a 

 double incurved ceerulean line at the base of the wings, abdomen Ver- 

 million with the dorsal segment more or less banded black, (body long, 

 16 : exp. teg. 46 millims), from the Andamans ; and one with the base 

 of the wings red and base of the tegmina above and below with a bluish 

 tinge, (body long, 19 : exp. teg. 53 millims), from Sikkim : but a series 

 is desirable before describing them further. 



49. POLTDICTTA (?) TEICOLOR, Westwood. 



Lystra tricolor, Westwood, Arc. Ent. ii, p. 35, t. 37, f. 4 (1845). 

 Polydictya tricolor, Walker, List. Horn. B. M. ii, p. 290 (1851). 



Sanguineous, very glabrous ; anterior lobe of pronotum and meso- 

 notum anteriorly black, basal half of tegmina (the livid base itself excep- 

 ted) stramineous, spotted black ; apical half brunneous ; costal spot 

 stramineous : wings red, apical half fuscous : feet chestnut sanguineous 

 (West.) Body long, 16| ; exp. teg. 56-57 millims. 



Reported from Assam. 



Genus Ancyra, VYhite. 



A. M. N. H. XV, p. 34 (1845). 



Allied to Eurymela, Hoff. ; but distinguished from it by the shape 

 of the head which has not the dilated gense, no stemmata, antennae close 

 Tinder the eyes : tegmina finely veined, with a notch on the posterior 

 margin and rounded at the apex, whence (in $ ) proceeds a longish narrow 

 appendage, widest at the end : legs much dilated and compressed 

 throughout : hind legs very long with four spines on the outer edge of 

 the tibiee : the end of the body covered with a waxy down-like secretion 

 (White). 



50. Ancyra appendiculata. White. 



Ancyra appendiculata, White, A. M. N. H. xv, p. 34 (1845) ; Westwood, Cab. 

 Or. Ent. p. 74, t. 31, f. 5 (1848) ; Walker, List. Horn. B. M. ii, p. 395 (1851) ; Dist- 

 ant, J. A. S. xlviii (2), p. 38 (1879). 



Rich deep brown : tegmina, above brown, spotted at base with 

 white and with two widish powdery bands of white ; beneath, mahogany 

 red : wings deep brown almost black on the edge and between a red- 

 coloured space : body beneath yellow : legs black : wings more powdery 



