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first band, where it acquires a tawny hue, and extends round the tip 

 to the second band ; a pale red stripe extending' along the hind bor- 

 der from the base nearly to the first band: hind-wings pale brown, 

 almost colourless in part of the disk, luteous at the base ; veins 

 black. Length of the body 5^ lines ; of the wings 7 lines. 



a. Malabar. Presented by the Entomological Club. 



46. Cercopis hilaris. 



Nigra ; caput et thorax luteo fasciata ; pectm flavum, nigra ma- 

 culatum, ejus discus niger ; abdomen purpureum^ suhius jia- 

 vum maculis nigris trivittutum ; pedes fulvi ; tarsi fusci ; 

 al(C anticce fuscce Jlavo bifusciatce el univittat<e. 



Black: head shining; front adorned with a semicircular lu- 

 teous band, which is prolonged in a very broad conical form, and 

 occupies the disk of the face ; the latter is pitchy, smooth, very con- 

 vex, with slight transverse furrows, not keeled ; sides and epistoma 

 yellow: moulh yellow, with a black tip: chest dull, very thickly 

 punctured : fore-chcsl with a luteous band along- the fore ])order, ex- 

 lending on each side to the base of the fore-wing- ; hind border 

 slightly concave : breast yellow ; disk black ; two or three black 

 spots on each side : al)domen purple ; under side yellou-, with three 

 rows of transv erse black spots ; the side rows on the rim which is 

 very broad: legs tawny ; thighs paler than the shanks ; feet and tips 

 of the shanks brown : fore-wings dark brown, with two narrow yel- 

 lovv bands; the first at one-third of the length, interrupted in the 

 disk, and marked by some dots from thence to the hind border ; the 

 second at two-thirds of the length, slightly waved ; a yellow spot in 

 the disk between it and the tip; a yellow stripe extending along 

 the^fore border from the base to the first band : hind-wings g"ray- 

 ish, tinged with brown at the tips and along the hind borders, 

 luteous at the base : veins black. Length of the body 4tV lines ; of 

 the wings 12 lines. 



a. Malabar. Presented by the Entomological Clu]>. 



47. Cercopis.'* STELLAT A. 



Cercopis stellata, Guer. Icon. Reg. Anim. Texle, 368. 

 Malacca. 



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