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subinterrupted transverse yellow bands ; the upper part of the 

 frontal ridge is also yellow, and there are broad yellow diverging 

 bands on each side of it ; also a broad yellow band below each eye, 

 extending over the lower part of the deflexed lobes of the pro- 

 notum. Pronotum impress-punctate, rounded behind, the hind 

 sulcus placed just behind the middle. Tegmina green or olive, 

 with the longitudinal and transverse nervures yellow, and the 

 apex often reddisli ; wings brick-red. with red nervures, more or 

 less subhyaline towards the tip. Abdomen yellow, with trans- 

 verse blue-black bands. Legs yellow, the femora longitudinally 

 striped with blue-black, and blue-black on the inner side nearly to 

 the extremity ; the four front tibiae blotched with blue-black. 



Length 43-61 mm. ; expanse of tegmina, 68-100 mm. 



Baluchista:^^ : Qiietta ; Sixd : Karachi ; Madras, etc. 



The specimen from Madras is very large and dark-coloured, but 

 L cannot find any satisfactory character to separate it as a distinct 

 species. 



206. Pcecilocerus punctiventris, Sew. 



Fiekilocerus punctiventris, Serville, Ins. Orth. 1839, p. 601. 



Green, rather shining. Head smooth, with a yellow baud 

 beneath each eye, extending over the lower border of the deflexed 

 lobes of the pi'onotum ; scutellum of the vertex short, depressed, 

 bordered with a yellow line extending obliquely backwards on the 

 vertex ; face with three yellow spots on each side, the faint 

 carinse slightly marked ; scape of antennie with a yellow spot 

 beneath. Pronotum strongly granulated, with four spots placed 

 in a square in front, and six others, of which the middle ones 

 are the smallest, curving round the hind border. Pectus with 

 four irregular spots in the middle, and three more on each side. 

 Tegmina rather longer than the abdomen, opaque, green, thickly 

 mottled with yellow ; not distinctly expanded on the costa. 

 Wings nearly as long as the tegmina, hyaline, stained with 

 vermilion to beyond the middle, the apex clear, with brown 

 nervures. Abdomen spotted with yellow on the carina above, 

 and on the median line below, as well as on the sides. Legs green, 

 front femora with two yellow spots, four front tibiae spiny below 

 towards the tips, and with three yellow spots above ; hind 

 femora with a row of yellow spots on the outer margin above 

 and below ; middle coxjb spotted with yellow. 



Lenr/th 38-40 mm. 



Bombay: Egypt. 



Ti/pe in the Paris Museum. 



207. Pcecilocerus (?) oniatus, Bumi. 



Poecilocera ornata, Burnieister, Ilandb. Ent. ii, 1838, p. 6i'4. 



Front of the head raised and pointed ; eyes very prominent ; 

 antennae ringed with black and yellow, with the base red ; body 



