64 ORIENTAL CICABIDM. 



41. Cosmopsaltria impar. (Tab. X., fig. 16, a, h.) 



Dunduhia impar, Walker, Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. vol. x. p. 86, n. 13 (1867). 



This species is only known to the writer by the typical specimen in the British Museum, 

 a figure of which, with the original description, is here given : — 



" Male. Green. Head and thorax more or less testaceous. Head with a black ringlet about each 

 of the ocelli, and with two elongated black dots on each side of the front ; face with a middle abbreviated 

 black line, and with transverse black points along each side. Prothorax with two black lines as in 

 D. laiilinea, but the lines are much interrui^ted ; a black point on each point ; sutures partly black. 

 Mesotborax with five black stripes ; middle stripe entire ; inner pair composed of a streak and a hinder 

 spot, the streak dilated at its hind end and slightly curved ; outer pair interrupted near the fore border, 

 much excavated in the middle ; a lanceolate black spot on the fore border between the inner pair and the 

 outer. Abdomen tawny ; bind borders of the segments green ; a large black spot at the base ; underside 

 with interrupted piceous bands ; an entire hinder black band. Ventral opercula full two-thirds of the 

 length of the abdomen. Anterior tarsi with piceous tips. Wings pellucid ; veins ochraceous, varied with 

 black ; first and second transverse veins with elongated blackish spots." 



" Var. /3. Lines of the prothorax entire." 



"Female. Testaceous. Middle stripe of the mesotborax sometimes interrupted; outer pair very 

 much interrupted. Abdomen with black points along each side above and beneath ; a black lanceolate 

 spot on each side near the tip ; underside with a black middle spot near the tip." 



" Length of the body 11 — -12 lines, of the wings 36 — 38 lines." 



Hab. — Malayan Archipelago: Waigiou (Wallace* — Brit. Mus.). 



42. Cosmopsaltria insularis. (Tab. IX., fig. 12, a, h.) 



Dunduhia insularis, Walker, List Horn., Suppl. p. 8 (1858). 



"Male. Testaceous. Head with black transverse streaks on each side of the face, and with a black 

 band on the vertex. Prothorax with two black stripes, which are dilated in front and behind, and with six 

 black lateral streaks ; sides edged with black, denticulate in the middle. Mesotborax with a black stripe, 

 which is widened hindward, and accompanied by a black dot on each side ; four lateral streaks, the inner 

 pair short. Abdomen with black transverse marks near the base, and with a row of black dots on each 

 side. Wings vitreous ; veins testaceous, black towards the tips. Fore wings with the first and second 

 transverse veins oblique, shaded with black, parted from each other by a little more than their joint 

 length ; third and fourth very oblique, of equal length." 



" Length of the body 11 lines ; of the wings 28 lines." 



Hab. — Malayan Akchipelago : Celebes (Pfeifferf — Brit. Mus.). 



I only know this species from the type specimen (which is here figured) now contained 

 in the collection of the British Museum. 



■'■ Mr. Wallace stayed at this island from July to September, 1860, and dm-ing that limited period, " For near a 

 month we had wet weather, the sun either not appearing at all, or only for an hour or two about noon" (Wallace, ' Malay 

 Archipelago'). This again clearly shows the ditfioulties under which adventurous naturalists labour, and the results of then- 

 visits afford samples only of these insular faunas. 



I Madame Ida Pfeiffer, who collected the specimen which founded this species, closed her visits to the Sunda Islands 

 by a short stay at Celebes about the year 1853. It has been well said of this accomplished traveller : — " If we compare the 

 results of Ida Pfeiffer's undertakings with the limited means at her disposal for carrying out her plans, her achievements 

 appear marvellous. She traversed nearly 150,000 miles by sea and 20,000 miles by land ; and the funds for these travels were 

 obtained entirely by wise economy and by the energy with which she kept the goal continually before her eyes." 



