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very pale fuliginous, the basal area broadly carmine-red ; head trans- 

 versely impressed in front of eyes ; pronotum finely transversely 

 i-ugulose, foveately impressed on each side near anterior margin', 

 faintly centrally longitudinally carinate, lateral margins slic^htly 

 reflexed; face slightly laterally striate; mesosternal tubw-eles 

 prominently conically produced; rostrum reaching the intermediate 

 coxa; ; posterior tibiae with a strong spiue near base and another 

 beyond middle; tegmina about two and a half times as long as broad 



Length excl. tegm. 19 to 20 ; exp. tegm. 47 millim. 



Hab. "E. India" {Brii. Mus.), Sikhim (Jide Atkinson) . l)ariilin<^ 

 {Coll. Dist.). •" ^ 



D. Tegmina pale ivith a clarl- subcostal streak. 



2299. Phymatostetha basiclava, iValk. (Cercopi.O, List Ilom. Sinml 



p. 171^ (lyo8j; St^d (Phymatostetha), Ofo. Vet.-Ak. Fork. 1870 

 p. 721 ; Butl. Cist. Ent. i, p. 270 (1874) ; Atkins. J. A. S. B. liv 

 p. 17 (1885). ' 



Tomaspis lariuia, Stal, Ofv. Vet.-Ak. Fork. I860, j). 1.j2. 



Head (inckiding face), pronotum, and scutellum testaceous ; base 

 of head between eyes, two large spots near anterior margin of 

 pronotum and two very small spots between them, and basal 

 angles and apex of scutellum black; abdomen above violaceous- 

 black, the anal appendage above and beneath testaceous-red; body 

 beneath and legs black, lateral margins of prosternum testaceous'; 

 coxal spots, apices of femora, and broad transverse segmental 

 fasciae to abdomen testaceous-red ; tegmina testaceous with'^a black- 

 basal streak beneath costal area which extends to about one-third 

 from base and is apically broadened and turned downward ; wings 

 very pale fuliginous, sanguineous at extreme base, and suffused 

 wdth pale piceous at anal area ; head transversely impressed in 

 front of eyes; pronotum finely rugulose and punctate, somewhat 

 strongly toveate on each side before anterior margin, obsoletely 

 longitudinally centrally carinate, the lateral margins reflexed'; 

 scutellum transversely striate, discally foveate ; face globose, finelv 

 laterally transversely striate ; mesosternal tubercles broadly 

 prominent ; rostrum reaching the intermediate coxa? ; posterior 

 tibiae with two strong spines, one near base, the other beyond 

 middle ; tegmina about three times as long as broad. 



Length excl. tegm. 21 ; exp. tegm. 48 millim. 



Hab. ^'Miim {Knyvett, Incl. Mus.). E. Himalayas ; Kalimpong 

 {Mann, Ind. Mus.). Central Indm {Val. Ball, CoU. Dist.). 



E. Ter/mina black tvith pale bases (small species). 



2300. Phymatostetha lydia, StSl (Ceicopis), Ofv. Vet.-Ak. Fork. 



1805, p. 149; Butl. (Cosmoscarta) Cist. Ent. i, p. 257 (1874) ■ 

 Atkins. J. A. S. B. liv, p. 9 (1885). 



Head (including face) and pronotum black, basal area of the 

 latter saffron-yellow ; scutellum black ; abdomen above ochraceous 

 Avith the apex black; body beneath and legs saff'ron-vellow, 



