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cercopid.t:. 



violaceous-black, the apex and lateral marginal spots ochraceous ; 

 body beneath and legs pale ochraceous, disk of sternum and 

 posterior margins of abdominal segments piceous ; tegmina with 

 about basal half stramineous, containing three fuscous spots, 

 remaining area fuscous, with a much waved and broken testaceous 

 fascia, apical margin dark ochraceous ; wings very pale fuliginous ; 

 head transversely impressed before eyes ; pronotum iinely wrinkled 

 and obscurely punctate, centrally iinely longitudinally carinate. 



Fig. ^l.—Phtj iiuil ostcfha s/;jiii/era. 



foveately impressed on each side before anterior margin, lateral 

 margins reflexed ; face globose, distinctly transversely striate on 

 each lateral area ; mesosternal tubercles subacutely prominent ; 

 rostrum reaching the intermediate coxfe ; posterior tibitc with two 

 long spines, one near base and the other beyond middle ; tegmina 

 nearly three times as long as broad. 



Length excl. tegm. 14 to 15; exp. tegm. 38 to 40 millira. 



Hal). Silhet (Brit. Mus.). Assam ; ISIoa Dehing Valley ( Chennell), 

 Naga Hills (Doherti/), Shillong {Coll. Dist.). Darjiling {Coll. 

 Dist.). 



229 1. Phymatostetha dubitabilis, Wall;. (Ceicopis)'Z/V JIo)!i. Suppl. 

 p. 17;! (18o8); Butl. (Plivmatostetlia) Cist.' Ent. i, p. L'70 

 (1874) ; Atkins. J. A. S. B\\\\, !>. IG (1885). 



Head, pronotum, and scutellum black ; anterior areas of head 

 and face, lateral margins and a central longitudinal fascia to pro- 

 notum, and disk of scutellum dull ochraceous; abdomen above 

 castaneous, paler at base, anal appendage above and beneath 

 testaceous ; body beneath black, lateral margins of prosternum 

 ochraceous, coxae, legs, and segmental abdominal margins testa- 

 ceous-red, anterior and intermediate tibiie piceous ; tegmina 

 testaceous-red, interior margin of clavus and a spot on its posterior 

 margin, two curved and very irregular transverse fascia;, the first 

 narrower at about one-third from base, the second wider and 

 outwardly angulate at about middle, and two spots beyond it, the 

 lowermost often obscure, piceous, apex paler and more ochraceous; 



