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beyond which it is for a slight distance suffnsed with black ; 

 head transversely impressed in front of eyes ; ])ronotum rugnlose, 

 a little transversely foveately impressed on each side before anterior 

 margin, centrally finely and obscurely longitudinally carinate, lateral 

 margins moderately reflexed ; scutellum centrally foveate; face 

 globose, finely carinate on lateral areas ; niesosternal tubercles 

 prominent, their apices subacutely recurved ; rostrum reaching the 

 intermediate coxae ; posterior tibia) with a ^ell-developed spine 

 near base and a longer spine beyond middle ; tegmina about two 

 and a half times as long as broad. 



Length excl. tegm. S to 12 ; exp. tegm. 22 to 27 millim. 



Hah. Simla {Lefroy) ; Malabar {Bnt. Mus.). — Malay Peninsula ; 

 Perak {Dohertij). 



2285. Phymatostetha stali, Butl. Ci^f. Ent. i, p. i'07 (1874) : Atldm- 

 J. A. S. B. liv, p. 13 (iHSo) ; Dist. Tr. E. S. 1900, p. (386. 



Tomaspis circuindiicta, Stdl {nee Walk.), Ofv. Vet.-Ak. Fiirh. 

 1865, p. loO; id. (Phymatostetha) toni. r/f.*1870, p. 721. 



Cosiuuscarta sikkimensis, Atki/is. J. A. >S. JJ. Ivii, p. o-jo (1888). 



Phymatostetha birniaiiica, Jcicobi, Mt. Mus. Berlin, iii, p. '20, i. i, 

 f. 8 (1905). 



Head and pronotum piceous ; vertex of head in front of eyes, 

 face, lateral margins and anterior area of pronotum, scutellum 

 and legs, ochraceous or pale testaceous ; abdomen violaceous- 

 black, beneath more or less ochraceously pilose ; sternum piceous ; 

 tegmina piceous, a basal costal and claval streak, two transverse 

 fasciae, the first before middle the second before apical area, and 

 the apical margin pale testaceous ; wings pale fuligiuoiis ; head 

 transversely incised before eyes ; pronotum finely transversely 

 wrinkled, centrally longitudinally carinate on anterior half, trans- 

 versely foveately impressed on each side before anterior ntargin, 

 the lateral margins moderately reflexed ; scutellum foveate at 

 base ; face globose, very finely striate on lateral areas ; mesosternal 

 tubercles broad, subprominent ; rostrum reaching the intermediate 

 coxae ; posterior tibice with a moderately strong spine near base 

 and a very strong spine a little beyond middle ; tegmina about 

 two and a half times as long as broad. 



Length excl. tegm. 14 to 15 ; exp. tegm. 29 to 37 millim. 



Hah. X.W. Himalaya {Coll. Dist.). Assam ; Margherita and 

 Nilga Hills (Doherttj); Bhim Tal, Kumaon {Lid. Mus.). Burma; 

 Karennee (Jide Jacohi). 



228G. Phymatostetha hilaris, U'alk. (Cercopks) List Horn, iii, p. 005 

 (1851); Bntl. (Phyiiiaio^tetha) Cist. Ent. \, p. 208 (1874); 

 Atkins. J. A. S. B. liv, p. 14 (1885). 



Head, pronotum, and scutellum piceous, thickly finely pilose ; 

 margins of head, and lateral and anterior margins of pronotum 

 stramineous ; abdomen above violaceous-black ; face black, the 

 anterior and half the central area very pale ochraceous ; body 

 beneath and legs stramineous, some sternal spots and narrow 



