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witli carmine ; face trausversely striate with a distiuct central 

 longitudinal impression ; ejes luteous ; pronotum with a central 

 longitudinal earination on its anterior half ; posterior margins of 

 scutellum, metanotum and abdominal segments, apex and lateral 

 margins of abdomen, carmine ; anterior legs dull retidish ; posterior 

 tibiae armed with a strong spine beyond middle ; intermediate legs 

 piceous ; mesosternum with two very large, thick, conical teeth. 



Length excl. tegm. 13 ; exp. tegm. 35 millim. 



Hab. Sikhim. 



The above description refers to a single specimen in the 

 collection of the late Frederic Moore. 



F. Te(jmina black or piceous ; greater part of costal area luteous. 



2340. Cosmoscarta fuscipennis, St. Fary. i^- 6'erv. (C'ercopis) Ene. 

 3Ictli. X, p. 60-") (l^i'o) : /8Yf?/(C\ismoscarta), Hcm.Fabr. ii, p. 11 

 {ISm); Bvtl. Cist. Ent. l p. 240 (1874); Atkins. J. A. S. B. 

 liv, p. 7 (1885). 



Cercopis plana, Walk. List Horn, iii, p. 653 (1851). 



Cosmoscarta lurida, Atkins. J. A. S. B. Ivii, p. 335 (1888). 



Head (including face), pronotum, legs and lateral margins of 

 pronotum luteous ; scutellum and abdomen above purplish-black ; 

 body beneath and posterior femora piceous ; tegmina black, basal 

 two-thirds of costal area luteous, sometimes base and claval area 

 more faintly of the same colour ; wings fuliginous with the veins 

 piceous ; heafl faintly transversely impressed in front of eyes ; 

 pronotum thickly finely punctate, three moderate transverse 

 foveations before anterior margin, one central, the other two 

 behiud it on each side and each of the latter containing one or 

 two small black spots, lateral and posterior margins reflexed ; 

 mesosternal tubercles compressed and broadly acute ; rostrum 

 reaching the intermediate coxse ; posterior tibiae with a long spine 

 beyond middle ; tegmina less than two and a half times as long 

 as broad. 



Length excl. tegm. 12 to 14 ; exp. tegm. 31 to 40 millim. 



Hab. Malabar (fide Atkinson). — Malay Peninsula and some 

 islands of the Malayan Archipelago. 



G. Tegmina uniforinhj tawny or testaceous. 



2350. Cosmoscarta leonina, sp. u. 



Head (including face) and pronotum ochraceous ; abdomen above 

 and beneath violaceous-black ; scutellum, mesonotum, sternum 

 and legs castaneous ; lateral margins of prosternum ochraceous ; 

 tegmina tawny-brown, slightly ochraceous at base of clavus ; wings 

 pale fuliginous, basal area narrowly fuscous ; head transversely 

 impressed at front of eyes; pronotum thickly finely punctate, 

 foveately impressed on each side near anterior margin, obliquely 

 foveate near each lateral angle, slightly longitudinally carinate on 



