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black ; anterior margin of vertex usually blackish ; soirie obscure 

 longitudinal orauge-red fasciae which are sometimes obsolete, in 

 other specimens visible as in the one here figured, these fasciae 

 number when fully discernible four on vertex, six on pronotum, 

 and three on scutellum ; vertex considerably shorter than breadth 

 between eyes, its anterior margin distinctly reflexed, ocelli in 

 groove very close to the eyes. 



Length inch tegni. -i| to 6 millira. 



Hah. Calcutta {Ind. Mus.) : Pusa {Lefroy). Ceylon ; Pera- 

 deniya {Green)., Ne\\ara Eliya {fide Motschoulslcy); Puttalam, 

 Kegombo, Bandarawella {fide Melichar). Burma ; N. Shan Hills 

 {Brown). Maldive Islds. ; Minikoi {Gardner). — Philippines. 

 Queensland ; Cairns {fide KirJcaldy). 



I have here figured AValker's type of T. povrecta contained in 

 the British Museum. The species is of a variable nature caused 

 by the frequent difficulty in discerning any trace of the longi- 

 tudinal orauge-red fasciae. 



2521. Thomsoniella rubrolineata, Motsck. (Deltocephalus) Bull. Soc. 

 Nat. Mosc. xxxvi (3) p. 98 (1863). 

 Thomsoniella porrecta (part.), Melich. Horn. Faun. Ceylon, p. 173 

 (1903). 



" Elongate, medially a little arcuately dilated, posteriorly 

 truncate, shining, above somewhat bluish-greeu, longitudinally 

 striped with red, margins flavous, body beneath and legs piceous, 

 abdominal segments margined with white ; apex of tegmina 

 iufuscated ; head triangular, with two red lines, medially longi- 

 tudinally impressed, vertically subconcave, apex subreflexed, at 

 margin four minute black punctures ; front anteriorly subf uscous, 

 with five minute white punctures (1, 3, 1), medially one rufously 

 arcuate ; eyes granulose, elongate-subconical, scarcely convex, 

 posterioi'ly not prominent, cinereous, posteriorly red; pronotum 

 \\ith six lines, slightly broader than head, strongly transverse, 

 posteriorly convexly sinuate, posterior angles rounded ; lateral 

 margins indistinctly punctate ; mesonotum trapezoidal, with two 

 lines, medially finely bi-impressed, posteriorly arcuate ; scutellum 

 triangular, apex moderately red ; tegmina elougately-subovate, 

 medially a little broader than pronotum, obliquely striped with 

 red and also with four spots at apex, the stripes posteriorly 

 abbreviated, medially somewhat longer, the three posterior spots 

 short, the anterior line strongly elongate, situate between the 

 third and second stripes." {Motschoulsl-y.) 



" Length 2^ 1. ; lat. elytr. med. -i 1." 



Eab. Ceylon ; Mont. Patannas {fide Motschoidsly). 



I have not seen this species. 



