COSMOSCAETA. 135 



base and a long spine beyond middle ; tegmina less than two and 

 a half times as long as broad. 



Length excl. tegm. 13 ; exp. tegm. 40 millim. 



Hah. Assam ; Naga Hills {Butler, Brit. Mus.). 



2314. Cosmoscarta ducens, Walk. (Cercopis) Lixt Horn, iii, p. Gi;o 



(1851); Stal, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. l^eo, p. 188; Butl. 

 (Cosmoscarta) Cist. Ent. i, p. 255 (1874) ; Atkins. J. A. S. B. 

 liv, p. 8 (1885). 



Head, pronotum, and scutellum black ; apex of vertex, lateral 

 margins of pronotum, and apex of scutellum obscurely piceous- 

 red ; body beneath piceous ; legs piceous-red ; tegmina black, 

 crossed by two narrow transverse reddish-ochraceous fascia?, the 

 first, which is more or less sinuate, at about one-third from base, 

 the second and straighter fascia before the reticulate apical area ; 

 wings dark fuliginous ; head transversely incised in front of eyes ; 

 pronotum thickly and finely punctate, obliquely foveate on each 

 side before anterior margin, and centrally transversely impressed 

 near anterior margin, narrowly obliquely foveate near each lateral 

 angle, lateral margins reflexed ; scutellum foveate at base, cen- 

 trally transversely wrinkled on apical area ; face obscurely 

 transversely striate, only narrowly longitudinally medially inter- 

 rupted ; mesosternal tubercles broad, compressed, subacutely 

 angulate ; rostrum reaching the intermediate coxae ; posterior 

 tibiae with a strong spine beyond middle ; tegmina a little more 

 than twice as broad as long. 



Length excl. tegm. 16 ; exp. tegm. 30 millim. 



Hah. Sylhet {Brit. Mus.). Assam; Margherita {Colh Dist.), 

 Naga Hills {fide Atlcinson). 



2315. Cosmoscarta egens. Walk. (Ceroopis) List Horn. Suppl. p. 171 



(1858); Bi/fl (Cosmoscarta) Cist. Ent. i, p. 255 (1874); 

 Atkins. J. A. S. B. liv, p. 8 (1885). 



Body black ; scutellum, abdominal segmental and lateral margins. 



Fig. 98. — Cosmoscarta egens. 



anal appendage, and legs testaceous or sanguineous ; teg- 

 mina black, a short slender basal longitudinal streak, a broader 



