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border yellow; breast and scutcheon pitchy : abdomen purple: legs 

 pitchy; thighs ferruginous towards the tips; shanks red : fore-wings 

 black : hind-wings dark gray ; veins black. Length of the body 

 4 — 5 lines ; of the wings 12 — 13 lines. 

 a, h. Java. From Mr, Argent's collection. 



30. Cercopis concolor. 



Picea, subius ferruginea ; abdomen rufum, maculis piceis biiitta- 

 tum ; femora postica rufa ; aUe antic(£ ferrugin£cB nigra ma- 

 culatcE ; aUe postica cinerece. 



Pitchy, shining : head beneath and breast ferruginous : abdo- 

 men red, with a row of pitchy spots along each side : hind-thighs 

 and tips of fore-thighs red ; hind-shanks and hind-feet red towards 

 the base : fore-wings ferruginous, with several indistinct black 

 spots; reticulated part brown: hind-wings gray. Length of the 

 body 4 lines ; of the wings 10 lines. 



a, b. Java. From the East India Company's collection, 

 c, d. Java. From Mr. Argent's collection. 



37. Cercopis cyaneiventris. 



Nigra , subtus ferruginea ; scutellum picenm ; abdomen cyaneum ; 

 pedes ferruginei ; alee anticie nigro-fusca; apice luridcB ; alee 

 posticcc cinerece^ bant apiceque fusca. 



Black, ferruginous beneath : shield broad, clothed with short 

 pale hairs, hardly impressed in front; scutcheon pitchy: abdomen 

 blue: legs ferruginous: fore-wings blackish brown, lurid towards 

 the tips where the veins are, red: hind-wings gray, brownish at the 

 base, at the tips, and along the hind border; veins black, tawny at 

 the base. Length of the body 5 lines ; of the wings 13 lines. 



a. Java. From Mr. Argent's collection. 



38. Cercopis 4-maculata. 



Lurida ; thorax nigra unifasciatus et bimaculatus ; pectus nigrum ; 

 abdominis segmenta subtus nigra interrupte fasciata ; alee 

 anticce nigra 7-maculat(B ; alee postica basi rufescentes. 



Lurid, shining : shield adorned on the impressions in front 

 with a short, broad, black band, whose hind border is very concave ; 



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