srnixGoxoTUS. 



155 



a yellow band before the tip ; hind tibia) blue, with n yellow band 

 towards the base, marked before and behind with black. 



Lennth 18-27 mm. ; tegmina, 17-30 mm. 



Europe : North Africa ; Western & Central Asia ; India : 



Himalayas. . i i i 



round on stony, sunny hill-sides, near rivers and brooks. 



179. Sphingonotus riibescens. Wall: 



(Edipoda rubcscens, Walker, Zoolo-ist, (2) v, 1870 p. 2301 

 Sphinqonotus ccendam var. candidiis, Costa, Atti Accacl. INap. (_; 



i (9), 1888, p. 50. , T rwi 1 •• 



•? Sphimjonotiis savujmji, Savignv, Descr. de 1 Egypte, lus. Orth. pi. ^ n, 



%. 13, 1 ?. 



Yerv similar to the last species, but paler, with longer tegmina 

 and wings. Wings iridescent hyaline, very shghtly, il_ at all, 

 tino-ed with blue. Hind femora black inside, often with two 

 yelbw bands ; hind tibiie blue, black at the base, followed by a 

 yellow band. 



Lenqth 22-23 mm. ; expanse of tegmina, 50-65 mm. 



Sardinia ; Greece ; Madeira ; Egypt ; Arabia ; Lall- 



CHISTAN. 



ISO. Sphingonotus savignyi, ^auss. 



Sphimionotiis savi<niyi and stirps apiadi'^, Saussure Mem. Soc. 

 Geneve, xxviii (9), 1884, pp. 198, 208; xxx (1), 18s8 p. /b; 

 Savig-ny, Descr. de rEgypte, lus. Orth. pi. vu, hg. \6,I^. 



Slender; grev or reddish, head and under surface varied with 

 white ; head^prominent, vertex convex, finely carinated, antenme 

 riucred with whitish. Pronotum cons^tricted in front, obtusely 

 rounded off behind, sometimes with two diverging whitish 

 dorsal fascia;, and a whitish stripe and spot on the sides ; upper 

 surface thicklv punctured, median carina slender ; detlexed lobes 

 with the lower margin oblique or irregular, distinctly angu ated 

 behind. Tegmina with the basal third opaque, light reddish 

 brown, very thickly reticulated ; the rest subhyaline, more widely 

 meshed, especially towards the extremity, generally with two 

 sh^htly-indicated transverse light brown bands, and scattered 

 brown' spots beyond ; intercalated nervure waved, united with 

 the median nervure at its extremity, and occupying a space 

 resembling the discoidal cell on a butteriiy's wing. Wings greenish 

 hyaline, with a curved dark brown band, narrow or moderately 

 broad, and in the former case sometimes subinterrupted on the 

 upper part of the wing-covering from the n)iddle of the costa 

 to above the anal angle, but not extending to the bind margin ; 

 nervures of the wings colourless, exce])t some of the longitudinal 

 nervures, and those on the dark band, which are oftened blackish. 



