PHLEPSIUS. 



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with several dark longitudinal streaks which form the borders of 

 the usual basal triangles, two dots before the impressed transverse 

 line and two marginal spots before the tip ; tegmina brownish- 

 yellow, ^^-ith brown not very strong veins, the apical part spotted 



Fig. 220. — Phlcpsins divaricatus. 



with brown, sometimes with indistinct longitudinal spots in the 

 cells; wings smoky bro\vu ; pectus, abdomen and legs brownish- 

 yellow ; back black." {Melicliar.) (Described from a single 6 

 specimen.) 



This is a variable species ; in the S specimen here figured the 

 four anterior spots to the vertex are fused ; in some specimens the 

 scutellum is as described and figured by Melichar, in others the 

 basal angles are filled in and dark ; in all the specimens I have 

 examined there are three dark spots on each claval sutural margin 

 (as in the figure, supra) but sometimes these spots are very 

 indistinct. 



Length inch tegm. d ife 5 (U to 7 miUini. 



Hah. Ceylon; Maskehya (G'jveu). 



2603. Phlepsius plumbeus, sp. u. 



Vertex pale greyish-white, two piceous spots at base nearer eyes 

 than to each other and four minute testaceous spots of which two 

 are central and two wider apart on anterior margin, a minute 

 central piceous spot at middle of anterior margin and a short 

 longitudinal central piceous line on basal margin ; pronotum dark 

 shining fuscous-brown mottled with ochraceous, the most 

 prominent pale markings being two central spots near anterior 

 margin between which there is a longitudinal line which reaches disk, 



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