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black ; abdomen above dark indigo-blue ; body beneath and legs 

 piceons ; face and lateral margins of prosternum sanguineous ; 

 tegmina piceous, a basal claval elongate spot with a smaller costal 

 spot above it, a transverse fascia before middle, and three sub- 

 apical spots sanguineous, apical margin dull ochraceous ; wings 

 pale fuliginous ; head transversely impressed in front of eyes ; 

 pronotum very finely wrinkled and more finely punctate, foveate 

 on each side before anterior margin, obsoletely finely centrally 

 carinate, lateral margins moderately reflexed ; scutelium centrally 

 sulcata ; face globose, very finely striate on lateral areas ; meso- 

 sternal tubercles moderately prominent and tlieir apices subacute; 

 rostrum x-eaching the intermediate coxce; posterior legs mutilated in 

 specimen described ; tegmina about two and a half times as long 

 as broad. 



Length excl. tegm. 17 ; exp. tegm. 45 millim. 



Hab. Assam ; Xuga Hills {Doherti/), 



2289, Phymatostetha pudica, Walk. (Cercopis) Ins. Sauncl, Horn. 



p. 84 (1858) ; Bidl. (Phvmatostetha) Cist. Ent. i, p. 2C9 

 (1874) ; Atkins. J. A. S. B. \i\, p. 15 (1885) ; id. torn. cit. Iv, 

 p. 195 (1886). 



Head (including face) pale castaneous ; pronotum tawny-brown, 

 with a central longitudinal fascia and a transverse fascia behind 

 each eye ochraceous, between the transverse and longitudinal 

 fasciae near anterior margin the colour is black ; scutelium black, 

 with a basal spot and apical area brownish-ochraceous ; metanotum 

 ochraceous ; abdomen above violaceous-black, apical area centrally 

 and longitudinally ochraceous ; body beneath and legs black or 

 piceous; bases of coxae, femora (excluding apices), bases of tibiae, 

 lateral margins of prosternum, large rounded lateral segmental 

 abdominal spots, and disk of fourth abdominal segment ochraceous; 

 tegmina tawny-brown, with basal costal and claval streaks, 

 a transverse series of three spots before middle, an irregular 

 fascia before apical area, and the apical margin ochraceous ; wings 

 dark fuliginous, their bases sanguineous; pronotum finely rugulose, 

 foveately impressed on each side before anterior margin, lateral 

 margins slightly reflexed ; mesosternal tubercles subconically 

 produced ; rostrum reaching the intermediate coxae ; posterior 

 tibiae with two spines, one near base, the other beyond middle ; 

 tegmina about two and a half times as long as broad. 



Length exol. tegm. 16 ; exp. tegm. 42 millim. 



Hah. Silhet {Brit. Mus.). 



2290. Phymatostetha signifera. Walk. (Cercopis) List Horn, iii, 



p. 055 (1851) ; SiSi (Tomaspis), Ofv. Vet.-Ak. Fork. ]805, 

 p. 151 ; id. (Phvmatostetha) torn. cii. 1870, p. 721 ; Butl. Cist. 

 Ent. I, p. 270 (1874) ; Atkins. J. A. S. B. liv, p. 15 (1885). 



Head, pronotum, and scutelium stramineous ; base of head and 

 two broad angulated fascise to pronotum black ; abdomen above 



