COSMOSCARXA. 



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Hah. Sikhim {Coll. JJisL). 



The Britisli Museum contains several unlocalized specimens of 

 this species collect ed during the voyage of H.M.S. ' Herald.' 



2309. Cosmoscarta pictilis, Stal (Cercopis), Ofr. Vet.-Ak. Fork. 

 1854, p. 241); IJx/l. (Cosmoscarta) Ci.^'t. Ent. i, p. 2GtJ (1874); 

 Atkim. J. A. S. B. liv, p. 12 (1885). 



" Obscurely green clialybeous ; scutellum on both sides at base 

 and also the apex weakly spotted with cianabar ; tegmina sordidly 

 white, basal margin and two fasciae weakly cinnabar ; two spots, 

 one smaller before the first fascia, and the other near the apex, 

 nigro-fuscous ; femora red ; tibiae blackish." {SuV.) 



" Long. 15, lat. 6 milliin/' 



" Hah. India Orientalis."' 



Butler, from the description, inclined to the view that this 

 species might belong to tlie genus Phi/matostetJuc. .Since then I 

 have described, and on the previous page figured, an allied species, 

 C. maciiillivrayi, and there seems little doubt that the inctilis 

 of Stfil is a Cosmoscarta. 



2310. Cosmoscarta minor, Atkim. J. A. S. B. Ivii, p. 335 (1888). 



" Head and thorax metallic bluish-black, shining, the latter 

 finely impressly punctured ; base and apex of abdomen reddish, 

 a broad transverse median band brownish-black; tegmina blackish, 

 with a basal streak triviug off a short subcostal branch and two 

 transverse bands, one at the base and the other at the apex or 

 the middle third, red ; wings fuscous-hyaline ; legs brown ; pos- 

 terior coxse and femora often more or less croceous or reddish." 



" A small species allied to the C. decisa, Walk, group." 

 {Atkinson.) 



Length 7; exp. tegm. 21 millim, 



" Hah. Sikhim ; Dam Dim (Bhutan Duars)." 



2311. Cosmoscarta shillongana, sp. n. 



Head, pronotum, and scutellum dark bluish-black, finely pilose; 



Fig. 97. — Cosmoscarta shilloncjana. 



apex of scutellum ochraceous ; body above and beneath piceous ; 

 posterior abdominal segmental margins very pale luteous ; coxae 



