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Genus GRAPTOPSALTRIA. 



Graptopsaltria, Stal, Ilem. Afr. vol. iv. p. 8 (1866). 



Body robust, attenuated posteriorly. Head, including eyes, narrower than the anterior lateral 

 margins of the pronotum ; ocelli wider apart from eyes than from each other ; rostrum extending to about 

 posterior coxfe. Pronotum with the lateral margins irregularly convex, not prominently ampliated or 

 laminately expanded. Anterior femora robustly spined. Tympana practically covered; opercula short, 

 broad, not extending beyond basal segment of abdomen. Tcgmina opaque. Apical areas eight ; transverse 

 vein at the base of the second apical area much curved ; interior ulnar area not distinctly widened at apex. 

 Wings opaque ; apical areas six. 



This genus, represented according to present knowledge by one species, is known only 

 from Japan, which thus contains an example of the opaquely coloured species having the 

 tympana covered, and found in other portions of our fauna, in the genera Tacua and Tosena. 



1. Graptopsaltria colorata. (Tab. II., fig. 8, a, h.) 



GroiitoiisaHria colorata, Stiil, Berl. Ent. Zeit. x. p. 169 (1866). 



Head black ; apex and base of front, anterior lateral margins, a small spot behind eyes, and two large 

 discal spots to vertex castaneous ; ocelli and eyes ochraceous. Pronotum castaneous, the anterior and 

 posterior margins, and two narrow central longitudinal fascise, blackish ; extreme lateral margins cas- 

 taneous. Mesonotum black, with two faint obconical spots at centre of anterior margin ; in some specimens 

 there are a few small castaneous spots ; cruciform elevation castaneous, with its centre and apical angles 

 black. Abdomen above black. Body beneath ochraceous, mottled with dark castaneous and blackish ; 

 opercula dull ochraceous ; inner margin of eyes and margin of face blackish. 



Tegmina dark ochraceous, mottled with castaneous ; a narrow angulated linear fascia, commencing 

 at apex of radial area and terminating at apex of inner ulnar area, and the apical area (irregularly) 

 fuscous, a series of small pale submarginal spots near apices of apical areas. Wings dark, warm 

 ochraceous, the outer margin and a subapical fascia castaneous, a small pale spot near apes of lower 

 apical area. 



Long. excl. tegm. 30 to 37 millim. Exp. tegm. 92 to 118 millim. 



Hab. — Japan (Stockh. Mus. — Brit. Mus. ; Lewis — coll. Dist.). 



The females of this species — in all the specimens I have examined— have been invariably 

 larger than the males. It does not appear to vary in markings or coloration, as a fine 

 series passed through my hands, collected by Mr. George Lewis, in his Japanese entomological 

 expeditions. 



Genus TOSENA. 



Tosena, Amyot & Serville, Hist, des H<5m. p. 462, 860 (1843) ; Stal, Hem. Afr. iv. p. 8 (1866) ; Atkins. 

 J.A. S. Bang, vol.lv. p. 151 (1886). 



Body robust and long. Head broad, including ej'es, about equal in width to that of mesonotum at 

 base ; ocelli twice the distance from eyes as from each other ; face convex, shghtly prominent above. 

 Pronotum with the lateral margins more or less ampliated, or laminatelj' expanded, and more or less 

 distinctly toothed. Anterior femora distinctly spined. Metasternum elevated. Tympana covered ; 

 opercula sliort and broad. Tegmina usually altogether opaque ; apical areas eight ; interior ulnar area 

 somewhat widened at apex ; wings opaijue. 



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