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about halt"- way between the 3rcl and 4t]i longitudinal veins, and 

 reaches to the wing-tip at the termination ot" tliese two veins. 

 The lower half of the discal cell is tlius clear. 



Length, ]'2^ niiu. 



Described from one $ in the Indian Museuui collection, from 

 Sikkim. De Meijere records a d' from the same locality. I ha\e 

 seen examples from the liunjit Valley, Sikkim, v. 1894 (Blnc/ham) ; 

 Tauiigu, bikkim, xi. 1888 [Biwjham) ; and from Assam. 



267. Ceriajavana, Wled. (Text-fig. 71, p. 322.) 



Ceria javana, Wiedemann, Anal. Eut. p. 32 (1824) ; id., Auss. 

 Zweifl. ii, p. 81 (1830). 



(S $ . Head black : in (5 , f rons and face pale to deep yellow ; 

 a broad black median stripe runs from top of frons to mouth- 

 border, and a transverse black band just below antennae reaches 

 from eye to eye. In ? , vertex broadly black, cheeks wholly 

 black in both sexes. Antennae black, petiole black or very dark 

 brown, paler below ; 3rd joint brownish, grey-dusted, apical 

 bristle rather long. Occiput black, with yellowish tomentum on 

 side margins; narrowing above, with a continuous fringe of short 

 white hairs and of yellowish and brown pubescence behind vertex. 

 Thorax black, closely punctate, with indefinite traces of a yellow- 

 ish tomentose median stripe, which reaches to the hind margin 

 where it broadens and slightly divides. Conspicuous bright orange- 

 yellow calli on humeri, at each end of suture, on mesooleui'a, 

 pteropleura and sternopleura. Scutellura yellow, with a central 

 black spot reaching from base to hind border, where it narrows 

 considerably. Pubescence of thorax inconspicuous, very short, 

 black; that of scutellum brown, very short ; frenulum very dis- 

 tinct, pale yellow ; metanotum shining black, bare. Abdomen 

 slightly shining black, closely punctate. 1st segment with two 

 large yellow calli on each side at base; 2nd segment over four 

 times as long as Ist,. extremely narrow and dark brown for three- 

 quarters of its length, then black and suddenly widened ; 2nd, 3rd 

 and 4th segments with thick, pale yellow to brownish-orange 

 hind margins, which on 3rd and 4th segments respectively extend 

 forwards at sides nearly to the middle of the segment. Pubes- 

 cence of abdomen yellowish-brown ; there is a little soft, white, 

 longer ])ubescence at the sides of the first two segments ; venter 

 shiiiinglilack,with traces of yellowish bands on hind borders of 2nd, 

 3rd and 4th segments. Le;/s]>\ac\i or very dark mahogany -brown ; 

 there is a l>.ng. bright yellow, well-defined streak on the lower 

 surface of the tore femora and on the hind surface of the middle 

 femora, these streaks in both cases reaching nearlv from base to 

 ti|) ; on th(! inner and outtn* sides of the basal half of the hind 

 femora the stripes are so large as to be only narrowly si-paiated. 

 Pubescence of legs inconspicuous, geneiaily concolurous with 

 ground-colour. IVings pale grey ; anterior half, down to just 



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