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CJillCOPID.T. 



pale fuliginous with the veins darker; pronotum transversely 

 rugulose ; face moderately compressed, longitudinally broadly 

 sulcate on its upper half, transversely striate on its lateral areas. 



Length inch tegm. 8 millira. 



Hah. Assam ; Margherita (DoJierti/). 



Genus PHYMATOSTETHA. 



Phvmatostetba, Stal, Ofv. Vet.-Ak. Fiirh. 1870, p. 721; Atkins. 

 J. A. S. B. liv, p. 13 (1885). 



Type, P. perspicillaris, White, from the Philippines. 



Distnhatioii. Oriental and Malayan Regions. 



" Face tumid, seldom forming an angle below the middle, without 

 a keel or longitudinal impression. Ocelli nearer each other than 

 the eyes. Pronotum with the posterior margin before the scu- 

 tellum slightly sinuated, posterior lateral margins straight or 

 sinuated ; mesosternum posteriorly with two conical tubercles. 

 Legs moderate, posterior tibiae armed with one or two spines." 

 (StM.) 



This genus is easily distinguished from the following, Cos- 

 moscarta, by the narrower and posteriorly straighter or sinuate 

 pronotum ; a secondary and subsidiary character may be found in 

 the more prominently spined posterior tibi.'e, especially the more 

 developed basal spine. 



A. Ter/mina ivith ^yale transverse fascia'. 



2284. Phymatostetha circumducta. Walk. (Cercopis) List Horn. 

 Suppl. p. 17o (iS'jS); Batl. (Phvmatostetba) Cist. Ent. \, 

 p. 2(58 (1874) ; Atkins. J. A. S. B. liv, p. 13 (1885). 

 Cercopis ccstalis, Wttlk. List Hotn. iii, p. 664 (1851), uom. 

 prteocc. 



Head, pronotum, and scutellum black ; anterior margin of 



vertex, a spot at base of 

 face and anterior and lateral 

 margins of pronotum ochra- 

 ceous ; abdomen above 

 violaceous - black ; body 

 beneath and legs ochra- 

 ceous; face, sublateral areas 

 of prosternuu), lateral mar- 

 gins of mesosternum, meso- 

 sternal tubercles, and cen- 

 tral and lateral transverse 

 spots to abdomen, black ; 

 femora streaked with 



Fig. QO.— Phymatostetha circumducta. 



piceous ; tegmina piceous, costal and apical margins oehraceous, 

 interior claval margin connected with a transverse fascia crossing 

 tegmen before middle, and another transverse fascia before apical 

 area testaceous-red ; wings fuliginous, extreme base sanguineous, 



