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abdomen pale castaneous, the segmental incisures narrowly edged with ochraceous and black, and with 

 some obscure blackish and irregular transverse discal fascine and a lateral series of small black stigmatal 

 spots; tympanal coverings dull ochraceous. Head beneath, sternum, legs and opercula ochraceous ; the 

 transverse striations to face, a fascia between eyes and face, apex of rostrum, apices of tibise and the 

 margins of opercula widened at apex, black ; abdomen beneath pale castaneous, with some black 

 discal spots. 



Tegniiua and wings pale hyaline, the venation pale fuscous, tegmina with the costal membrane 

 ochraceous and the transverse veins at the apices of the second and third apical areas infuscated. 



The abdomen is more or less pilose ; the 02iercula extend only to the third abdominal segment. 



Long. excl. tegm. S , 35 — 38 millim. Exp. tegm. 85 — 90 millim. 



Hab. — CoNTiNENT^Ui India : Assam — Marghcrita (Doherty — coll. Dist.) ; Naga Hills (Chennell — coll. 

 Dist.); Sylhet (Stainforth— Brit. Mus.). Malay Peninsula : Malacca (coll. Sign.). 



This appears to be a moderately scarce species in collections, and two pairs of the sexes 

 are all that I have as yet been able to acquire, though I am indebted to both Messrs. Chennell 

 and Doherty for extensive collections made in Assam. 



15. Cosmopsaltria meyeri.* (Tab. VIII., fig. 5, a, h.) 



Cosmopsaltria meijcri. Distant, Proc. Zool. See. 1883, p. 189, t. 25, fig. 2, a, b. 



Body above castaneous. Head with the vertex and front nearly completely suffused with blackish ; 

 ocelli and eyes yellowish. Pronotum with a central black longitudinal fascia, the posterior and lateral 

 margins obscure ochraceous. Mesonotum with two large contiguous black obconical spots on anterior 

 margin, a large lateral subconical black fascia on each side, and a triangular black fascia in front of the 

 cruciform elevation, the apex of which is produced between the central obconical spots, and which also 

 possesses posteriorly a central and angulated base. Abdomen very dark castaneous. Body beneath and 

 legs dark castaneous ; sternum and base of abdomen thickly and palely pilose ; opercula ochraceous, 

 extending to the fourth abdominal segment, concavely constricted be5'ond base and then slightly and 

 convexly rounded to apex, apical portion distinctly narrower than base (rostrum mutilated). 



Tegmina and wings hyaline, t the first slightly infuscated, with the costal membrane, basal area, and 

 venation brownish or fuscous, the transverse veins at bases of second and thu'd apical areas infuscated, 

 and two very small submarginal fuscous spots at apices of the longitudinal veins enclosing the first and 

 second apical areas ; wings with anterior claval margin and a basal streak pale fuscous. 



The face is very convexly tumid, with a narrow central discal sulcation, and with the transverse 

 striations becoming more profound from base to apex ; the anterior femora are armed with two strong spines, 

 one near base and one near apex ; between the last and apex is a small and somewhat rudimentary spine. 



Long. excl. tegm. 3" , 50 miUim. Exp. tegm. 132 miUim. 



Hab. — Malayan Archipelago : Celebes (Meyer — Dresden Mus.). 



Only one specimen of this species has been seen by the writer. 



bbb. Tegmina more or less spotted. 



16. Cosmopsaltria nigra. (Tab. VI., iig. 9, a, h.) 



Cotmopsaltria nigra. Distant, Ann. & Mag. Nnt. Hist. set. 6, vol. i. p. 292 (1888). 

 Diindnbui spiiut.ia, Walk, (nec Fabr.), List Horn. i. p. 47, n. 3 (1850). 



3' . Body above and beneath with the legs blackish ; eyes and ocelli dark fuscous-brown. Tegmina 

 and wings smoky hyaline, the venation fuscous, the tegmina with the transverse veins at the bases 



* Named after Dr. A. B. Meyer, director of the Zoological and Ethnographical Museum of Dresden and well-known 

 nitnvalist, wliose journeys in the Mnhiyan Arcliipelago, especially in Celebes and New Guinea, have done much in increasing 

 our knowledge of the Zoology and Anthropology of those islands. 



f In the process of Uthography the hue of the tegmina and wings has been rendered too dork in the figure here given. 



