130 OERCOPIDyE. 



raised, costal margin evenly convexly arehed from base ; posterior 

 tibicB with one sti-ong spine beyond middle. 



Length excl. tegm. 12 to 15 ; exp. tegin. 30 to 40 millim. 



Hah. Assam ; jN";iga Hills (Dohert;/), Margherita (Ind. Mus.). 



This species is allied to the Chinese species, C. heros, Fabr., the 

 type of the genns. 



2303. Cosmoscarta montana, Dist. Tr. E. S. 1900, p. 678. 



Head (including face), pronotum, and prosternum bluish-black ; 

 meso- and metasterna, legs, and abdomen above and beneath 

 ochraceous ; abdomen above with the segmental margins nar- 

 rowly piceous ; tegmina black, Avith the basal area and a transverse 

 fascia before the apical area pale ochraceous ; wings very pale 

 fuliginous ; head transversely impressed before eyes ; pronotum 

 with a central longitudinal cariiiation on its anterior half ; 

 mesonotum with two central black subacute conical tubercles, 

 through wliich the rostrum passes but does not reach the inter- 

 mediate coxoe ; tegmina somewhat elongate, about two and a half 

 times as long as broad, very thickly minutely punctate ; posterior 

 tibiae with a strong spine beyond middle. 



Length excl. tegm. 9 to 10 ; exp. tegm. 25 to 26 millim. 



Hah. Assam ; Naga Hills (Doherty). 



2304. Cosmoscarta nagasana, Did. Tr. E. S. 1900, p. 678. 



Body bluish-black ; apex of abdomen, coxae and femora dull 

 sanguineous, tibiae and tarsi piceous ; eyes luteous ; tegmina 

 piceous-black, with two transverse pale ochraceous fascia;, the 

 first broader at about one-fourth from base, the second at about 

 one-third from apex ; wings very pale fuliginous ; head trans- 

 versely impressed in front of eyes ; pronotum very finely punctate, 

 with two large transverse fovese near anterior margin and a 

 smaller foveate impression near each lateral angle, obsoletely 

 longitudinally centrally carinate on anterior half, the lateral 

 margins and angles very distinctly reflexed ; scutellum trans- 

 versely foveate at base ; posterior tibiae with a strong spine 

 beyond middle ; mesonotum with two broad, somewhat com- 

 pressed, subtriangular tubercles ; rostrum not reaching the 

 intermediate coxae. 



Length excl. tegm. 12; exp. tegm. 28 millim. 



Hah. Assam; Naga Hills (Do/ter^?/). 



2305. Cosmoscarta decisa. Walk. (Cercopis) List Horn. Suppl. p. 175 



(1858) ; Butl. (Cosmoscarta) Cist. Ent. i, p. 258 (1874) ; 

 Atkiits. J. A. S. B. liv, p. 9 (1885) ; id., var., torn. cit. Ivii, 

 p. 336, t. XV, upper rig-ht-hand iigure (1888). 



Head (including face), pronotum, scutellum, and sternum 

 shining bluish-black ; abdomen above and beneath black, above 

 with the segmental margins narrowly ochraceous, and the anal 

 segment also of that colour ; legs ochraceous, femora more or less 



