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tip, reaching the hind-hips ; eyes not prominent ; feelers dark tawny ; fore-chest broadest in the middle ; 

 hind-scutcheon much widened, and almost angular on each side ; scutcheon of the middle-chest adorned 

 with four obconical dark brown marks, the outer pair long, the inner pair short and pointing towards two 

 dots of the same colour ; hind border very slightly excavated ; abdomen obconical, a little longer than the 

 chest ; opercula close ; drums of moderate size, nearly meeting, less than half the length of the abdomen ; 

 legs pale tawny ; tips of the shanks darker ; claws pitchy, tawny at the base ; fore-thighs armed with 

 tawny teeth, which hardly rise above the surface ; hind shanks beset with tawny spines whose tips are 

 pitchy; fore wings whitish, brownish-tawny towards the base, and having elsewhere some irregular pale 

 brown marks, which, here and there, include white spots ; veins yellow ; hind-wings brown, mostly 

 yellowish-white towards the base, and having a large yellowish-white spot in the disk, white at the tips, 

 and adorned with a white spot on the hind border, which elsewhere is brown ; flaps yellowish-white with 

 broad brown borders. 



" Second marginal areolet as long as the first ; first cross-vein nearly straight, slightly slanting, 

 forming a very slightly obtuse angle, parted from the second by about five times its length ; second nearly 

 straight, very slanting, forming a very obtuse angle, much more than twice the length of the first ; third 

 nearly straight, very slanting, forming a very acute angle ; fourth slightly curved, slanting, forming a 

 slightly acute angle, a little more than half the length of the third ; fifth curved, forming a slightly acute 

 angle. In the left wing of an insect of this species the third cross-vein is not more than half the length 

 of that in the other wing."* 



Long. escl. tegm. 2 16 millim. Exp. tegm. 46 millim. Exp. pronot. angl. 8 millim. 



Hab. — Continental India : North Bengal (Campbell, Warwick — Brit. Mus.). 



A female specimen of this species contained iu the collection of the British Museum is 

 here figured, and fig. 16, h, exhibits the under surface of the abdomen— showing opercula — 

 of a male specimen in the same collection. 



PU Tegmina nearly altogether opaque. 



15. Poecilopsaltria semusta. (Tab. I., fig. 10, a, h.) 



I'teciluiisaltna semusta, Distant, Anu. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. .'5, vol. xx. p. 227 (1887). 



<? . Body dull ochraceous ; head with the front and a broad fascia between the eyes black, the last 

 containing the ocelli and two small ochraceous spots ; pronotum with two central, discal, somewhat 

 triangular, black spots, the lowermost largest and broadest, on each side of which are three narrow, 

 oblique, black fascite, or furrows, the lateral ampliated margins somewhat darker outwardly. Mesonotum 

 with a large, black, central spot on anterior margin connected with the black margin of the basal cruciform 

 elevation ; on each side of this central spot is a large, black, obconical spot, which nearly crosses the disk ; 

 abdomen above dull castaneous, the segmental margins ochraceous. Head beneath with a broad black 

 fasfia between the eyes ; face ochraceous, the upper portion black, enclosing an ochraceous spot, the central 

 suk-ation and transverse striations bright castaneous; body beneath ochraceous, with darker shadings; 

 legs more or less tinged with castaneous; abdomen beneath as above; opercula brownish ochraceous, 

 with the margins paler ; rostrum ochraceous, with the apex pitchy. 



Tegmina brownish, with the following creamy markings : — a short, macular, transverse fascia near 

 base ; a broad, irregular, transverse, macular fascia near centre ; between the fascia and apex are two spots 

 near post-costal area, each divided by a vein, and an outer irregular series of submarginal spots ; at the 

 bases of apical areas the transverse veins are shaded with dark castaneous. Wings brownish, some basal 

 streaks and central macular markings ochraceous ; marginal fringe very pale ochraceous. 



The rostrum about reaches the apex of the basal abdominal segment ; the opercula are angularly 

 rounded, do not overlap, and are well separated from each other ; the face has a central, deep and broad, 



* The description of these areolets is valueless. They are not altogether constant in form, and, if they were, afford 

 little ch-.e to the identification of species. 



