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across, and has a tawny border and a tawny middle ridge, the latter 

 is forked near the crown : mouth tawny with a black tip reaching 

 beyond the hind-hips: feelers tawny: fore-chest very short, with 

 lawny borders : five slight ferruginous ridges on the middle-chest, 

 the inner pair very slightly curved : abdomen obconical, not longer 

 than the chest ; hind borders of the segments yellow : legs tawny, 

 slightly grooved ; hind-shanks armed with three spines : fore- wings 

 tinged with pale dull tawny ; brand yellow with a broad brown hind 

 border ; veins pale yellow, adorned with rows of very numerous brown 

 dots ; cross-veins brown: hind-wings almost colourless ; veins black. 

 Length of the body 1^ — If line ; of the wings 4 — 5 lines. 



a — c. New Zealand. Presented by Dr. Hooker. 



28. Cixius RUFiMACULA, Mas. 



Luteua ; caput nif/ro maculatum ; prothnrax nigra cinctus et uni- 

 vittatus ; mesothorax nigro carinatus et utrinque vittatus ; 

 pectus nigro maculatum; abdomen nigro fasciatum ; laterihus 

 rufum ; pedes fulvi, suhtus Jlavi ; alee anticce subfulvce ; alec 

 posticcc limpidce. 



This species has some affinity to Delphax, but its feelers are 

 those of Cixius. Body luteous: crown of the head crescent-shaped, 

 surrounded by a rim and having a triangular black spot in the 

 middle ; front slightly widening from the crown to the epistoma, 

 which is triangular and hardly half the length of the former ; three 

 black stripes extend along half the length of the epistoma from the 

 crown and occupy the ridges which are rather broad: fore-chest 

 much longer than usual, hardly shorter than the head, nearly sur- 

 rounded by a black border and having a black middle ridge : middle- 

 chest black along each side, and having three very distinct black 

 ridges, the side pair slightly curved : several black spots on the breast : 

 abdomen obconical, shorter than the chest, slightly banded with 

 black, having a short bright red stripe on each side: legs tawny, 

 hairy, yellow beneath ; hind-shanks armed with three spines : fore- 

 wings pale dull tawny ; four tliscoidal areolets ; veins brown ; mar- 

 ginal vein tawny, bristly : hind-wings colourless ; veins black, beset 

 with a few bristles. Length of the body 2 lines ; of the wing 6 lines. 



a. Columbia. From M. Jurgens' collection. 



