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Var. a. — Wings -with a subcostal ochraccous iiatch. 



Var. b.— "Wings ochraceous, the outer area only chocolate-brown, and the sanguineous rays entirely 

 absent. 



Long. excl. tegm. <? . 24 to 26 miUim. Exp. tegm. 73 to 80 millim. ; exp. pronot. angl. 14 millim. 



Hab.— Continental India: Panjab — Wazeerabad* (Hearsay— Brit. Mus.) ; North Bengal (Campbell — 

 Brit. Mus.) ; Naini Tal (Stock. Mus.) ; Eajpootana — Mount Aboo (Calc. Mus.) ; Jodhpoor (Calc. Mus.) ; 

 Sambalpoor (Calc. Mus.) ; Karachi (Calc. Mus.) ; Bombay (Leith — coll. Dist.) ; Karwar (coll. Dist.) ; 

 Coimbatore (Walhouse — Brit. Mus.) ; Neelgiri Hills — Southern Slopes (Hampson— coll. Dist.) ; Shivarai 

 Hills (Bidie & Morris — coll. Dist.). Ceylon (Calc. Mus.). 



This is decidedly the most abundant and widely spread species of Pcecilopsaltria in 

 Continental India, to which and Ceylon it appears to be confined. Besides the distinct 

 varieties recorded above, even typical examples vary much in the shape and extent of the 

 chocolate-brown markings to the tegmina. 



10. Pcecilopsaltria hampsoni. (Tab. I,, fig. 8, a, }>.) 



Pcecilopsaltria Hampsoni, Distant, Ann. it Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. xx. p. 226 (1887). 



S . Head luteous ; front with a number of black linear markings ; vertex with a transverse, narrow, 

 black fascia between the eyes, and with a central black spot containing the ocelli. Pronotum greenish- 

 ochraceous, the disk with the following black markings : — a central I-shaped spot, on each side of which are 

 some oblique linear markings ; the lateral dilated margins are black, and the anterior margin is narrowly — 

 and the posterior margin broadly— dull reddish ochraceous. Mesonotum greenish-ochraceous, with the 

 following black spots : — four obconical from anterior margin, of which the central two are smallest ; 

 and a large, oblong, discal spot, with a small partly rounded spot on each side of it ; the basal cruciform 

 elevation dull reddish ochraceous. Abdomen above black. Head beneath, with the face black, marked 

 with luteous transverse lines ; sternum somewhat ochraceously pilose ; abdomen beneath black, the 

 segmental margins ochraceous, the anal appendage of the same colour ; legs castaneous, streaked or 

 spotted with piceous and luteous. Eostrum black, the basal portion luteous. 



Tegmina pale hyaline, with the venation brown, tlie costal membrane greenish, the basal third 

 somewhat opaque, with darker transverse markings and small basal black markings ; a double irregular 

 series of dark brown spots cross the tegmina at about centre, a dark brown fascia at bases of upper apical 

 areas, a few small subapical spots and some small marginal spots of the same colour. Wings brownish- 

 ochraceous, paler at apex than at base and very pale across centre, with a white marginal spot near anal 

 angle ; the venation brown. 



The rostrum reaches the basal abdominal segment ; the lateral margins of the pronotum are 

 distinctly angulatcd ; the face is robustly gibbous, with a profound central longitudinal sulcation ; the 

 posterior tibijE have three distinct spines on each side of apical half. 



Long. excl. tegm. 2 . 23 millim. Exp. tegm. 70 millim. ; exp. pronot. angl. 13 millim. 



Hab. — Continental India : Neelgiri Hills, northern slopes, 3500 & 5000 feet (Hampson — coll. Dist.). 



"We are indebted to the exertions of Mr. G. F. Hampson for the discovery of this very 

 interesting species. It was first captured in the month of May, and although a fair series of 

 specimens were collected, they all belonged to the female sex, and the male is consequently 

 still desiderated. 



■ For the Spelling of Indian localities I follow G. Smith's ' Student's Geography of India.' 



