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wings pale fuliginous, the base narrowly sanguineous ; head trans- 

 versely impressed in front of eyes; pronotum rugulose and finely 

 punctate, very finely centrally longitudinally earinate, foveate on 

 each side near anterior margin, lateral margins reflexed ; scutellura 

 foveate at disk ; face globose, laterally transversely striate ; meso- 

 sternal tubercles subprominent; rostrum reaching the intermediate 

 coxae; posterior tibia) with two strong spines, one near base, the 

 other near middle ; tegmina about two and a half times as long as 

 broad. 



Length excl. tegm. 13 to 16 ; exp. tegm. 33 to 37 millim. 



Hah. " Hindostan " {Brit. Mxs.). 



C. Te(/mina with pale spots, not tnmsversehj fasciated. 



2292. PhymatOStetha stellata, Guer. (Cercopis) Icon. Rhjne An., 



Te.rte, p. 308 (1829-44) ; Stdl (Phvmatostetha), Ofo. Fet.-Ak. 



FUrk. 1870, Y<- 721; Biitl. Cist. Eni. i, p. i^(J9 (1874); Atkins. 



J. A. 8. B. liv, p. 14 (1885); Jacohi, Mt. Mus. Berlin, iii, 



p. 19, t. i, f. 14 (1905). 

 Cercopis dorsimacula, Walk. List Horn, iii, p. 663 (1851). 

 Cercopis tomeutosa, Walk. J. Li)ui. Sac, Zoul. x, p. 284 (18G7). 



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

 lateral margins and two discal spots to pronotum, and two large 

 basal spots to scutellum testaceous : abdomen above violaceous- 

 black ; body beneath and legs black or piceous, lateral margins of 

 prosternum ochraceous; tegminablack with eight testaceous spots — 

 two basal, situate in costal and claval areas, two before middle, one 

 discal at middle, two before apical area, and one subapical ; wings 

 fuliginous ; disk of vertex concave ; pronotum finely punctate and 

 rugulose, centrally longitudinally earinate, foveately impressed on 

 each side before anterior margin, lateral margins reflexed ; 

 scutellum transversely striate, centrally foveate ; face ochraceous 

 at base, transversely striate, smoothly, linearly, centrally inter- 

 rupted ; mesosternal tubercles acutely prominent ; rostrum 

 reaching the intermediate coxae; posterior tibiae with two strong 

 spines, one near base, the other beyond middle ; tegmina about 

 two and a half times as long as broad. 



Length excl. tegm. 16 ; exp. tegm. 40 millim. 



Hab. Malabar (Brit. Mus.). — Malay Peninsula; Perak {Dolierty). 

 Borneo ; Kina Balu ( Whitehead). Sumatra. 



2293. PhymatOStetha sema, Bist. Tr. E. s. 1900, p. 684, t. ix, f. 10. 



Head, pronotum, and scutellum piceous ; about apical half of 

 head, lateral and anterior margins and three elongate discal spots 

 to pronotum, and the central area of scutellum testaceous; abdomen 

 above black, the apex and lateral marginal spots sanguineous ; 

 body beneath and legs piceous, coxal spots, bases and apices of 

 femora, tarsi (excluding apices), a broad central area to posterior 



