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2325. Cosmoscarta samudra, sp. n. 



Head (including face) black, eyes yellowish ; pronotmn testa- 

 ceous-red, with a transverse black patch on anterior area behind 

 eyes ; scutellum testaceous with the apical area piceous ; body 

 beneath black, lateral marginal areas of prosternum testaceous-red ; 

 legs piceous-brown ; abdomen above pale ochraceous, its apex 

 piceous ; tegmina black, the base, a transverse fascia near middle, 

 and one beyond middle which centrally branches out into the apical 

 area, sanguineous ; wings hyaline, the base narrowly pale reddish ; 

 head transversely impressed before eyes ; pronotuin finely punc- 

 tate and urinlded, the lateral margins finely reflexed ; face 

 centrally, longitudinally, broadly flattened and smooth, the lateral 

 areas finely striate ; mesosternal tubercles subprominent ; rostrum 

 reaching the intermediate coxae ; posterior tibiae with a short spine 

 near base and a long spine beyond middle ; tegmina about two and 

 a half times as long as broad. 



Length excl. tegm. 12; exp. tegm. 31 millim. 



Hah. Burma {Coll. Dist.). 



2326. Cosmoscarta nycteis, Jacobi, Mt. Mus. Berlin, m, p. 14, t. i, 



f. 11 (lyoo). 



Head black ; pronotum dull sanguineous ; a transverse patch 

 on anterior area of pronotum behind eyes and the scutellum black ; 

 abdomen above, and body beneath and legs piceous, lateral margins 

 of prosternum sanguineous ; tegmina sanguineous, the apical area 

 and a waved transverse fascia before it fuscous ; wings pale 

 fuliginous, the base, costal margin, and anal area narrowly, palely 

 sanguineous ; head transversely incised between front of eyes ; 

 pronotum thickly, finely punctate, obliquely transversely foveate 

 on each side in the black anterior marginal patch, slightly obliquely 

 foveate on each side near lateral angles, centrally longitudinally 

 carinate on anterior half, centrally transversely nnpressed near 

 anterior margin behhid the ocelli, lateral margins reflexed ; face 

 transversely striate, broadly, smoothly, longitudinally, mediallv 

 interrupted ; mesosternal tubercles compressed, moderately pro- 

 minent ; rostrum reaching the intermediate coxa3 ; posterior tibiae 

 with a short spine near base and a strong spine a little beyond 

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



Length excl. tegm. 12 to 1-t : exp. tegm. 32 to 38 miilim. 



Hah. Assam {Berlin and Brit. 3Iuss.). 



2327. Cosmoscarta nigrofasciata, Atkins. J. A. S. B. Ivii, p. ;j;j.J, 



t. XV, lower left-haud figure (1888j. 



" Orange-yellow ; two transverse bands on each tegmen, the one 

 before the other in the middle, black ; apex of tegmina finely 

 reticulated blackish ; pectus (except the lateral margins) and a 



