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48. Cosmopsaltria obtecta. (Tab. V., fig. 13, a, h.) 



Tetti'j'niia nhuxta, Fabricius, Syst. Kliyng. p. 35, n. 11 (1803). 



Cicatla obtecta, Germ, in Tlion. Ent. Arch. ii. 2, p. 5, n. 58 (1830). 



Cosmopsaltria obtecta, Stul, Bcrl. Eiit. Zcits. x. p. 171 (18G0); Hem. Fabr. ii. p. -1, n. 1 (18C9). 



C. (Dkcropyija) obtecta, Stal, Ofv. Vct.-Ak. Furli. 1870, p. 708, note. 



DuTulubia bicaiulata. Walk. List Hom., Suppl. p. 9 (1858). 



Cosmopsaltria bicaudata, StiU, Berl. Ent. Zeits. x. p. 171 (IBGG). 



C. {Diceropi/,/a) bicaudata, Stul, Ofv. Vet.-Ak. Forh. 1870, p. 708, note. 



Dundubia subapicalis, Walk. JoUrn. Linn. Soc, Zool. x. p. 87, n. 15 (1867). 



Head, pronotum, mesonotum, and tympanal coverings gi-eenish-ochraceous. Abdomen above ochra- 

 ceous. Head with the anterior margins of front, a narrow undulating fascia between eyes, a submarginal 

 stripe to vertex, and a spot at anterior angles of vertex, black ; eyes fuscous. Pronotum with two central 

 longitudinal fasciaj— united posteriorly— on each side of these a discal linear spot, and the furrows, and 

 a curved spot on lateral margins, black. Mesonotum with a central longitudinal fascia, which has on each 

 side a shorter fascia connected at about centre, a submarginal linear fascia and a spot at anterior angles 

 of basal cruciform elevation black. Abdomen with a basal and some more obscure discal blackish spots. 

 Head beneath, sternum, legs and opercula greenish-ochraceous, abdomen beneath ochraceous ; some lateral 

 spots to face, a spot between face and eyes, a spot on each side of apex of face, longitudinal streaks to 

 femora, subapical annulations to tibiae, the tarsi and apex of rostrum dark fuscous. 



Tegmina and wings pale hyaline, the venation alternately brownish and ochraceous ; tegmina with 

 the costal membrane ochraceous, transverse veins at the bases of the second, third, fifth, and seventh 

 apical areas infuscated, the fifth and seventh only slightly infuscated, and a series of small marginal 

 fuscous spots situate on the apices of the longitudinal veins to apical areas. 



The opercula are well separated with their outer margins nearly straight. 



Long. excl. tegm. 3 , 24 to 26 millim. Exp. tegm. 82 to 85 millim. 



Hab.— Malayan Archipelago: Amboina (Forbes— coll. Dist.) ; Ceram (Pfeiffer and Wallace— Brit. 

 Mus.) ; Batchian (Wallace— Brit. Mus.) ; Ternate (Wallace— Brit. Mus. ; V. Lansberg— Leyden Mus. ; 

 Beccari— Genoa Mus.) ; Gilolo (Wallace— Brit. Mus ; Beccari— Genoa Mus.) ; Aru (Wallace— Brit. Mus. ; 

 Beccari— Genoa Mus.). New Guinea: Salwatty (Genoa Mus.) ; South-East District (coll. Dist.). Duke 

 OF York Island (coll. Dist.). 



The proper identification of this species has hitherto been much obscured, owing to 

 Walker having erroneously catalogued it as representing an Lidiau species, C. saturata, Walk. 

 (antea, p. 54), and Mr. Atkinson, thus misled, refers to C. ohteda, in his excellent Catalogue, 

 as from Sikkim and Assam.* 



I am indebted to the kindness of Prof. K.Brandt, of the Kiel Museum, for an examination 

 of a typical specimen of Fabricius's species. 



49. Cosmopsaltria pigafettae. (Tab. VIII., fig. 10, a, h.) 



Cosmopsaltria pigafettm. Distant, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. C, vol. i. p. 371 (1888). 



Body above brownish ochraceous; head with the whole frontal margin and a tnuisverse fascia 

 between the eyes black. Pronotum with two central, longitudinal, luiear fascite, on each side of which are 

 two or three obli(iue, short, linear spots, and a broader fascia on each lateral margin black. Mesonotum 

 with five linear fasciie ; the central crossing disk, on each side of this a shorter and curved fascia, and 

 a broken fascia on each lateral area, black. Abdomen pilose, with some black spots at base. Body 



* J. A. S. Beng. vol. liii. p. 226 (1885). 



