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2353. Cosmoscarta nigra, Atkins. J. A. S. B. Ivii, p. 335 (1888). 



Head, pronotura, scutellum and sternum black ; abdomen 

 bluish-black ; legs piceous ; tegmiua piceous-black ; wings pale 

 fuliginous ; head transversely impressed in front of eyes ; pronotum 

 finely obscurely punctate, foveate on each side before anterior 

 margin, obliquely foveate near each lateral angle, lateral margins 

 re flexed ; scutellum transversely striate ; mesosternal tubercles 

 prominent, subacute ; rostrum about reaching the intermediate 

 coxse ; posterior tibiae armed with a strong spine beyond middle 

 tegmina not quite two and a half times as long as broad. 



Length excl. tegm. 11 ; exp. tegm. 34 millim. 



Hah. Sikhim {fide AtJdmon) ; Dunsiri Valley {Coll. Bist.). 



2354. Cosmoscarta hyalinipennis, sp. u. 



Head black, vertex and face dull castaneous ; pronotum black, 

 the lateral margins very narro\Aly dull castaneous ; scutellum 

 castaneous, more piceous at base ; abdomen black, the segmental 

 margins and anal segment castaneous ; sternum black, its lateral 

 margins and the legs castaneous, the latter more or less suffused 

 with piceous ; tegmina black ; wings pale fuliginous, hyaline, the 

 base narrowly testaceous ; head transversely impressed in front of 

 eyes, the ocelli ochraceous ; pronotum thickly finely punctate, 

 foveately impressed on each side before anterior margin, obliquely 

 foveate near each lateral angle, lateral margins moderately reflexed ; 

 scutellum transversely depressed at base ; mesosternal tubercles 

 only moderately prominent; rostrum reaching the intermediate 

 coxae ; posterior tibiae with a long spine beyond middle ; tegmina 

 about two and a half times as long as broad. 



Length excl. tegm. 14 ; exp. tegm. 34 millim. 



Hah. Darjiling {Coll. Dlst.). 



2355. Cosmoscarta viridans, Guer. (Cercopis) Voy. Belany. Ind. Orient. 

 p. 501, Atlas, t. ill, f. 7 a (1834) ; Butl. (Cosmoscarta) Cist. 

 Ent. i, p. 249 (1874) ; Atlwis. J. A. S. B. liv, p. 8 (1885). 

 Ccroopis latissima, Walk. List Horn, iii, p. 655 (1851). 



Head, pronotum, scutellum and body beneath shining black ; 

 abdomen above shining violaceous-black, its posterior lateral 

 margins, anal segment and legs reddish-testaceous ; tegmina 

 brilliant shining black ; wings somewhat dark fuliginous ; eyes 

 pale ochraceous ; head transversely impressed between eyes ; 

 pronotum with the lateral margins obliquely straight, not convex, 

 foveately impressed on each side before anterior margin, obliquely 

 impressed near each lateral angle, lateral margins reflexed ; 

 scutellum transversely wrinkled ; mesosternal tubercles conieally 

 produced ; x-ostrum reaching the intermediate coxae ; face strongly 

 transversely striate, narrowly centrally interrupted ; posterior 

 tibiae with a strong spine beyond middle ; tegmina two and a half 



