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lobe; cf 4.8, 9 5.2; median width of pronotal lateral lobe cf 5.9, 

 9 7.3; length of tegmen cf 37.7, 9 47; median width of tegmen 

 cf 6.1, 9 7.7; distal width of tegmen cf 6.9, 9 8.3; length of ce- 

 phalic femur cf 9.3, 9 11.1; length of caudal femur cf 24.1, 9 29; 

 Lngth of ovipositor 23.7, width of ovipositor beyond base 2.3, 

 width of ovipositor mesad 2.1 mm. 



The species is known from the described pair. 



Nicsara thoracica (Dohrn) Plate XV, figure 9. 



1905. Lobaspis thoracica Dohrn, Ent. Zeit. Stettin, LXVI, p. 239. [cf, 9 ; 



Obi Island, [Moluccas].] 

 1907. Lobaspis bimaculata Karny, (not of Redtenbacher, 1891), Revisio 



Conocephalidarum, p. 69. [ 9 ; Obi Island, Moluccas.] 



Karny, in his revision, overlooked Dohrn 's Indo-Malayan Cono- 

 cephalid paper of 1905, in which three species of this genus were 

 described, and as a result described the female of the present 

 species as bimaculata, belonging to a series in which "dorso medio 

 pronoti toto nigro differunt." This difference in pronotal marking 

 constitutes one of the most striking color features to separate 

 thoracica from bimaculata. 



Obi, Island, Moluccas, 1 cf , 2 9 . 



Length of body cf 24, 9 29 and 25.5; length of pronotum cf 9.3, 

 9 9 and 9; caudal width of pronotal disk cf 4, 9 4.1 and 4.1; 

 length of tegmen cf 29.8, 9 34.3 and 37; median width of tegmen 

 cf 5, 9 5.8 and 5.9; distal width of tegmen cf 4.8, 9 5.6 and 5.7; 

 length of cephalic femur cf 9.2, 9 9.8 and 10; length of caudal 

 femur cf 20.8, 9 22.7 and 23.1; length of ovipositor 18.2 and 20.7; 

 median width of ovipositor 1.7 and 1.7 mm. 



Nicsara bimaculata (Redtenbacher) 



1891. Lobaspis bimacvlata Redtenbacher, Verh. Zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 

 XLI, p. 462. [cf ; Halmahera, Gilolo Island (nee Dschilolo), [Moluccas].] 



Obi Island, Moluccas, 1 cf . 



Like M. thoracica (Dohrn), this insect is apparent^ subject to 

 decided variation in length of tegmina and limbs. These species 

 are very closely related, the present being recognizable by the 

 blackish brown suffusions laterad on the cylpeal suture and the 

 pronotal marking, consisting of only small latero-cephalic and 

 latero-caudal dark markings on the disk. 



Length of body 23, length of pronotum 9.2, caudal width of 



pronotal disk 3.7, length of tegmen 26. 7, median width of tegmen 



4.3, distal width of tegmen 4.1, length of cephalic femur 8.2, length 



of caudal femur 18 mm. 



Rhytidogyne griffinii Karny. 



1907. Rhytidogyne griffinii Karny, Revisio Conocephalidarum, p. 70, fig. 15. 

 [ 9, Annam.j 



