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shining; front erect. Eyes brown, oval, prominent. Palpi with the usual 

 structure. Antennas tawny, long, slender, testaceous at the base ; first and 

 second joints incrassated. Proihorax elongate, wiih blackish speckles and 

 with five longitudinal pale lines; fore border hardly excavated; sides 

 nearly straight; hind border slightly rounded ; disk flat, wider hindward ; 

 lateral keels well defined. Abdomen with two long brown appendages which 

 are slightly curved upward. Legs long, slender ; femora and tibiae with 

 the usual minute spiues. Fore wings narrow, shorier by three lines than 

 the hind wings, with many black points, some of which form clusters in the 

 disks of the large areolets," which are quadrilateral, regular and well defined, 

 and include very minute and hardly traceable areolets. Hind wings 

 pellucid, testaceous-green and with black punctures along the apical part of 

 the costa; veins white. Length of the body 10 lines; expansion of the 

 fore wings 36 lines. 



This species is rather larger than P. rufonotata, the eyes are more 

 prominent and the wings are longer. 



a. Silhet. From Mr. Sowerby's collection. 



35. Phaneroptera koseata. 



Fcem. Viridis, gracilis ; caput alburn^ vertice albido rufescente signato ; 

 oculi rufescentes, prominuli, fere rotundi ; palpi albidi, apice virides ; 

 antennce fusc(£, articuUs basi pallidis ; proihorax nigricante con- 

 spersus, carinis lateralibus subdelerminatis ; mesothorax et melathorax 

 albi disco rosei ; abdomen rosea late vittatum ; cerci lanceolati^ 

 arcuati, setulosi; oviductus abdominis dimidio brevior ; pedes graciles, 

 femuribus inermibus nigro punctatis^ tibiis nigro spinulosis supra 

 subroseis ; alee anlicce angustcB, margine postico subochraceo ; al<B 

 poslica diaphance, striga costali apicali viridi, venis longitudinalibus 

 roseis. 



Female. Vivid pale green, smooth, slender. Head whitish, almost 

 as broad as the proihorax, white and shining in front; a curved reddish 

 line on the vertex, connected on each side with an anterior forked reddish 

 line; front erect. Eyes reddish, prominent, nearly round. Palpi whitish, 

 with the usual structure ; tips green. Antennae brown, long, slender ; first 

 and second joints pale, the following joints pale at the base. Prothorax 

 with blackish speckles; disk flat; lateral keels slightly defined ; fore border 

 hardly excavated; sides and hind border rounded. Mesothorax and meta- 

 thorax white; disk rosy. Abdomen with a broad rosy stripe. Cerci 

 lanceolate, setulose, curved towards each other. Oviduct deep, m.uch 

 curved, rather less than half the length of the abdomen. Legs long, 

 slender; femora unarmed, with some black points; tibiae slightly rosy 

 above, with the usual spines, which are black and very minute; fore tibiae 

 dilated at the base. Fore wings wiih an ochraceous linge along the hind 

 border, shorier by three and a half lines than the hind wings; areolets 

 conspicuous, very minute and very irregular; larger areolets irregular. 

 Hind wings pellucid ; streak along the apical part of the costa like the fore 

 wings in colour and texture; veins rosy ; transverse veins white. Length 

 of the body 8 lines; expansion of the fore wings 24 lines. 



