152 CERCOPIDiE. 



costal and claval areas sauguineous ; wings very pale fuliginous, 

 extreme base and bases of costal and anal areas pale saugineous ; 

 head transversely impressed in front of eyes ; pronotuin finely 

 punctate and slightly wrinkled, foveately impressed on each side 

 behind eyes and obliquely foveate near each lateral angle, 

 centrally longitudinally carinate on anterior half ; seutellum 

 broadly depressed at base, remaining area transversely wrinkled ; 

 raesosternal tubercles subprominent ; rostrum reaching the inter- 

 mediate coxae ; face transversely striate, somewhat broadly, 

 medially, longitudinally interru])ted ; posterior tibiae ^vith a short 

 spine at base and a strong spine beyond middle ; tegmina two and 

 a half times as long as broad. 



Length excl. tegm. 11 ; exp. tegm. 33 millim. 



Hah. Assam {Atlinson Coll., Brit. Mus.). 



'2347. Cosmoscarta fulviceps, Ball. (Cercopis), Tr. E. S. 1850, 

 p. 10 ; Dist. (Cosmoscarta) Tr. E. S. 1900, p. 682. 

 Cercopis nigripennis, Walk, (nee Fabr.) List Horn, iii, p. 653 



Cosmoscarta niegamera, Butl. Cist. Ent. i, p. 246, t. viii, f. 3 

 (1874) ; Atldjis. J. A. S. B. liv, p. 7 (1885). 



Head (including face) and pronotum luteous ; seutellum piceous ; 

 abdomen above and body beneath bluish-black ; legs piceous ; 

 lateral margins of presternum luteous ; tegmina black, with a short 

 sanguineous basal streak to clavus ; wings fuliginous, base and 

 costal area very narrowly sanguineous ; head transversely 

 impressed in front of eyes; pronotum thickly and very finely 

 punctate, with three transverse foveations before anterior margin, 

 one central, the others behind it on each side, more obscurely 

 obliquely foveate near each lateral angle, lateral and posterior 

 margins reflexed ; face transversely striate, the striations only 

 interrupted by a smooth medial longitudinal line; mesosternal 

 tubercles compressed, moderately angularly prominent, posterior 

 tibiae with t' short spine near base and a long spine beyond middle ; 

 tegmina about two and a half times as long as broad. 



Length excl. tegm. 14 to 16 ; exp. tegm. 38 to 44 millim. 



Hah. «ikhim ; Darjiling {Coll. Bist.); Bhutan (Brit. Mus.). 

 Assam ; Shillong (Indian Mus.), Margherita and Nfiga Hills 

 (Dohertij), Khiisi Hills {GhenneM). Burma ; Bhamo {Fea) ; Upper 

 Tenasserim (Limhorg). — Malay Peninsula ; Siam ; Hong Kong. 



2348. Cosmoscarta moorei, Dist. Tr. E. S. 1878, p. 321 ; Atkins. 

 J. A. S. B. liv, p. 7 (1885). 



Black, shining, irregularly pilose ; tegmina thickly and finely 

 punctate with the base, hotli above and heloiv, carmine-red, this 

 coloration consists of a narrow straight subcostal streak of about 

 3 millim. in length and a broader claval streak of about the same 

 length, gradually rounded and narrowed at its terminaton ; wings 

 fuscous, costal edge for about half the length narrowly tinged 



