128 CERCOPID.E. 



anterior lateral margin of prosternuin, disk of niesosternum, and 

 the tarsi black ; tegmina black, with the base saffron-yellow or 

 testaceous ; wings pale fuliginous, the base saffron-yellow ; head 

 transversely impressed in front of eyes ; pronotnm thickly finely 

 punctate, foveately impressed on each side near anterior margin, 

 lateral margins reflexed ; scutellum discally foveate ; face globose, 

 laterally transversely striate ; mesosternal keels not prominent ; 

 rostrum reaching the intermediate coxae ; posterior tibia3 with a 

 verv short spine near base and a somewhat longer spine beyond 

 middle ; tegmina little more than twice as long as broad. 



Length excl. tegm. 8 to 10 ; exp. tegm. 20 to 23 millim. 



Hah. " East India " {Brit. Mas.). 



Stal also states that sometimes the tegmina have no saffron 

 bauds and sometimes have two, one before and the other behind 

 the middle. I have not seen these varieties. 



2301. Phymatostetha deschampsi, LHh. Bull. Soc. Zool. Fr. 1892, 

 p. 208. 



Head (including face) shining black, the latter with a central 

 ochraceous line ; prouotum black, the posterior area sanguineous, 

 in some specimens sanguineous with only the anterior area black ; 

 body beneath and legs pale sanguineous ; a subquadrate spot on 

 lateral margins of prosternum behind eyes, and the apex of 



abdomen, black ; tegmina black, the 

 basal area sanguineous ; wings pale 

 fuliginous, base pale sanguineous ; head 

 transversely impi-essed in front of eyes, 

 pronotum very finely punctate, foveately 

 impressed on each side near anterior 

 margin ; lateral margins slightly reflexed ; 

 scutellum discally foveate ; face globose, 

 finely laterally transversely striate ; 

 mesosternal keels not prominent; ros- 

 trum about reaching the intermediate 

 coxae ; posterior tibiae with a very short 

 p. spine near base and a somewhat long 



NnjmatoMha deschampsi. ^^^"^"^^ beyond middle ; tegmina little more 



than twice as long as broad, unexpauded 

 as in the figure above, they have the appearance of greater 

 proportional length. 



Length excl. tegm. 8; exp. tegm. 18 millim. 

 Hah. Trivandrum {Brit. Mus.). 



Genus COSMOSCARTA. 



Cosmoscarta, Stdl, Hem. Fabr. ii, p. 11 (1869) ; id. Ofo. Vet.-Ak. 



Fork. 1870, p. 718 ; Atkins. J. A. S. B. liv, p. 6 (1885). 

 Cercopis, Stdl (part.), Hem. Afr. \\, p. 55 (18G6). 

 Trichoscarta, Bredd. Soc. Ent. xvii, p. 51 (1902). 



Type, C. heros, Fabr., from China. 



