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I have thought it best to reproduce the original description of this species, as the Sikkini 

 specimen in my collection, and which is here figured, has the markings of the mesonotum 

 faint and somewhat obliterated. 



It is closely allied to the preceding species, L. mascula, from which it structurally differs 

 by the opercula, which are wider apart and have their posterior margins more oblicpie, the face 

 is also less strongly striated. The abdomen beneath has the apex more broadly black, and the 

 tegmina have a complete series of small fuscous marginal spots at the apices of the longitudmal 

 veins to apical areas. 



4. Leptopsaltria albistigma. (Tab. X., fig. 15, a, h.) 



Diindubia albistigma, Walker, List Horn. i. p. 58, n. 18, (1850). 



This species is only known to the writer by the specimens in the British Museum, one 

 of which is here figured, and therefore the original description— as far as necessary— is 

 reproduced : — 



" Body tawny, somewhat ferruginous, covered with white down ; head a little narrower than the 

 fore-chest ; some black marks on each side of the crown ; space about the eyelets also black ; face very 

 convex, adorned in front with a broad black stripe, on each side of which there are black bands ; mouth 

 tawny with a black tip, reaching the hiud-hips ; eyes prominent ; feelers black ; scutcheon of the fore-chest 

 adorned in front with two triangular black spots ; hind scutcheon angular and slightly notched and armed 

 with a very short tooth on each side ; scutcheon of the middle-chest adorned with five black stripes, the inner 

 pair short, but succeeded by two black dots, the outer pair broad ; hind border very slightly excavated ; 

 abdomen slightly obconical, larger than the chest, adorned on the hind border of each segment with a 

 pitchy band which is widened on each side into a triangular spot ; four tubercles on the under side ; 

 opercula dull tawny ; drums small, tinged with green, a Uttle apart, not more than one-third of the length 

 of the abdomen ; legs tawny ; claws black, tawny at the base ; fore-thighs armed with three black teeth, 

 one very short, two very long ; wings colourless, greyish at the base ; cross-veins from the first to the 

 fourth clouded with brown ; brands whitish ; veuas tawny ; cross-vems and a few parts of the longitudmal 

 veins black ; flaps greyish at the base." 



Long. excl. tegm. 30 millim. Exp. tegm. 86 millim. 



Hab.— China (G. T. Lay— Brit. Mus.). 



5. Leptopsaltria nebulinea. (Tab. VIIL, fig. 17,a, fc.) 



Dundubia nebulinea. Walker, Journ. Liun. Soc, Zool. vol. x, p. 8-4, u. 10 (18G7). 



Walker describes the female sex only as follows :— 



" Testaceous, partly greenish about the sides of the thorax. Head with a transverse black mark on 

 each side of the front ; orbits of the ocelli black ; face with transverse piceous streaks along each side. 

 Prothorax with a black hne along the fore border ; the two usual black lines very mcomplete ; fore border 

 and hind border of the postscuteUum black. Mesothorax with two slightly curved piceous Ihies, which are 

 united behind, where they form a deep curve. Abdomen with a piceous line along the fore border of each 

 segment ; tomentum shining, cinereous. Fore tibiae and anterior tarsi piceous. Wings pellucid ; veins 

 ochraceous, partly black; stigma bright yellow; first, second, and thhd transverse veins clouded with 

 dark brown ; a pale brown fusiform dot on each of the seven marginal veins ; a still paler diffuse brown 

 streak in each of the marginal areolcts." 



In the male the opercula are situate wide apart, theh lateral margins slightly convex, their posterior 



margins obliquely straight. 



Long. excl. tegm. 22 to 25 miUim. Exp. tegm. 60 to 74 millim. 



