136 



(EDIPODIN.E. 



the base and brown towards the tips. Hind femora yellowish, 

 banded with brown ; hind tibiae black, banded with yellow at the 

 base and blue beyond ; about 8 spines on each side, tipped with 

 black. 



Length 27-29 mm. ; expanse of tegmina, 50-60 mm. 



India ; Malacca. 



Type in the Ley den Museum. 



157. Pternoscirta bimaculata, Thunh. 



Gri/lliis bimaculatus, Thuuberg, Mem. Acad. Petersb, v. 1815, 

 p. 239. 



Epacroviia turbata, Walker, Cat. Derm. Salt, B.M. iv, 1870, 



p. 776. 

 Acroti/liis hmnhertianus, Saussure, Mem. Soc. Geneve, xxviii (9), 



1884, pp. 187, 189. 



Greyish-tawny, whitish beneath, pubescent. Scutellum of 



the vertex with black carinas and 

 terminating in a transverse carina ; 

 frontal ridge sulcated, puuctui-ed, 

 cheeks granulated. Pronotum short, 

 with a blackish band behind the eye, 

 extending over a great part of the 

 pleura, but divided by a large tri- 

 angular pale spot in front and a 

 large round one in the middle ; de- 

 flexed lobes much higher than long. 

 Abdomen mostly black above. Teg- 

 mina brown, with two transverse 

 whitish bands or spots, and the 

 discoidal area hyaline beyond the 

 middle. AVings subhyaline, with 

 the base yellow, the costa beyond 

 the middle brown, and the marginal 

 half clouded with brown, except 

 below the dark costal line. iVont 

 legs yellowish, ringed with black; 

 hind femora banded ^^■ith black and 

 yellowish ; hind tibiae black at the 

 base, followed by a white and a black band ; the rest blue, with 

 S or 9 black-tipped spines. 



Length 21 mm.; tegmina, 19 mm. 



Ceylon. 



Type of P. turhata in the British Museum. 



[The description is taken from the type of P. turhata, AValk.] 



Fig. 98. 

 Pieriiosciria bimaculata. 

 a. Apical half of teginen. 



