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 DOCIOSTAURUS, ^^'^ 



Length 16 mm. 

 Bombay. 



Tyjye in the British Museum. 



137. Dociostaurus mimdus, Wall: 



Stenobothrus mundus, Walker, Cat. Derm. Salt. B.M. v, 1871, 

 Suppi. p. 79. 

 Testaceous, face more rufous, not sulcated with the cariuse 

 i.iJttr Fastigium of the vertex -^^tn-^gular xjoun ed at e 

 Pxtremitv the carina* running hackwards to withm the eyes, 

 Wo^J s^iV vior, oblong, punctured within. Pronotum tncannate 

 the TateS^a h4 angulated inwards halfway between the base and 

 the sutut, which is%laced about the middle of the pronotum. 

 Telmh a si^bhyaline, tinged with rufo-testaceous towards the base 

 S arelinore brownifh at base, subcostal space with a row of 

 five narrow brown spots, continued by more or less distmcth^ marked 

 pile bol spots and clots on the outer surface of the tegmma 

 Winc^s hvaline. Hind femora as long as the abdomen, indistmctly 

 ESl abme with brown, knees marked with blackish; tte 

 whitish, with 11 small black spines on the outer row, and 9 on 

 the inner. 



Bombay. „ • oe 



Length 17 mm. ; expanse of tegmma, Sb mm. 



Tvve in the British Museum. 



Probably a discoloured specimen of the next species. 



138. Dociostaurus epacromoides, Wall: 



Stenobothrus epacromoides, Walker, Cat. Uerm. Salt. B.M. v, 1871, 

 Suppl. p. 81. 



Annarently a better-coloured example of D. mundus. Testa- 

 ceous^ ace with a black spot under each eye, and a curved carma 

 runnl;.. from between each eye and the antenna to the extremity 

 Ttle rivpeus; it is marked with a black spot at is extremity, 

 °nd two Tack dots above. A black band runs behind the eye ojev 

 the head and pronotum, crossing the whitish lateral carina, he 



nder half of which it borders within, but not to the extremi y ; 

 o ethsideof the median carina however, are two rudimenary 

 blackish carinas, at the extremity of the pronotum. On the s des 

 S the head a broad dusky band runs backwards from the black 

 sLtLowthe eye; on the pienra it becomes more distinct, and 

 rthei^deof\he pleura is a white callous spot surrounded 



•tibial^ Tegmina\iearly as in ^■J^^<^:^,^^'''^ 

 spots are mostly larger and more crowded Wmgs h.^ahne. 



Length 19 mm. ; expanse of tegmina, 30 mm. 



Bombay. 



Type in the British Museum. 



