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suffused with piceoas, the tarsi and anterior and intermediate 

 tibiiB pieeous ; tej^mina black, with three transverse pale ochra- 

 ceous fasciae, the first irregular and basal, connected at inner 

 margin with the second which is straight and situate before 

 middle, third before apical area, the basal fascia is also angularly 

 produced in costal area ; head transversely impressed before eyes ; 

 ])ronotum very obsoletely longitudinally carinate on its anterior 

 half ; mesonotum with two moderately short tubercles ; rostrum 

 about reaching the intermediate coxae ; tegmina moderately short 

 and broad, not much more than twice as long as broad, rather 

 strongly arched at base of costal margin, very thickly and 

 minutely puuctate. 



Length excl. tegm. 9 ; exp, tegra. 25 millira. 



Hah. Assam : N:iga Hills (Doherty). Darjiling (Coll. Dist.). — 

 W. Yunan (Anderson). 



I possess a variety from Darjiling in which the fasciie to the 

 tegmina are sanguineous. 



2306. Cosmoscarta trigona, Walk. (Cercopis) List Ham. in, p. 6G0 



(1851) ; Bidl. (Cosmoscarta) C'iat. Ent. i, p. L'"j7 (1874) ; 

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

 Cercopis amplicoUis, Walk. List Horn. Suppl. p. 175 (1858). 



Head, pronotum, and body beneath black ; scutellum and legs 

 testaceous ; tibiae and tarsi fuscous ; abdomen above black, seg- 

 mental margins and anal segment sanguineous ; tegmina piceous, 

 crossed by two testaceous or sanguineous transverse angulate 

 fasciae, the first near middle, the second just before apical ai'ea, 

 the first connected or nearly connected with base along claval 

 area and also along the costal area by the same colour; apical area 

 more or less fuscous- brown ; wings very pale fuliginous, the base 

 and costal margin narrowly sanguineous ; head transversely im- 

 pressed before eyes ; pronotum transversely impressed, centrally 

 longitudinally carinate on anterior half, both head and pronotum 

 more or less ochraceously tomentose ; mesonotum with two broad 

 compressed tubercles ; rostrum not quite reaching the inter- 

 mediate coxae ; face globose, the striations brownish-ochraceous ; 

 posterior tibiae with a single short spine beyond middle ; tegmina 

 about two and a half times as long as broad. 



Length excl. tegm. 54 to G ; exp. tegm. 27 to 29 millim. 



Hah. Assam ; Margherita (Dolun-ty), Kh;lsi Hills (Chennell), 

 Naga Hills (Dohertij). Sikhim (Ind. Mus.). Darjiling (Coll. Dist.). 

 Nilgiri Hills (Hamjjson). 



2307. Cosmoscarta metallica, Dist. Tr. E. 8. 1900, p. 679. 



Body dark indigo-blue ; apex and lateral margins of abdomen, 

 coxae and femora coral-red ; tibiae aud tarsi fuscous ; segmental 

 margins to abdomen beneath dull reddish ; tegmina black, with 

 two irregularly shaped and angulate sanguineous transverse 

 fasciae, the first at about one-third from base, the other before 



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