NYCHIA. 



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■with anterior margin black'. Head : crown of face brown or 

 green, below the base of the forehead an almost round depression 

 extending to the inner margin of the eyes; antennae pale green, 

 second joint clothed with long brownish hairs, fourtli joint clothed 

 with long silvery ones, having besides a long fringe of the same 

 along the convex margin : eyes large, dark brown ; labrum 

 piceous : rostrum, third and fourth joints black ; pronotum short, 

 shining, unpunctured ; scutellum long, triangular ; elytra pale 

 green, almost white ; corium : next the embolium with an elongate 

 black streak at the base and another in the middle, connected by 

 the black nerve, apex with a black patch ; embolium for about 

 two-thirds the length of the corium, black ; anterior marginal 

 nerve more or less green ; sternum yellowish or greenish, sides 

 thickly covered with very long, fine, black hairs; legs green, coxae 



Fig. I9j.— -y//chia marshalU. 



a. Head of mature insect showing eye ; h. Underside of head ; e. Elytron. 

 d. Sternum and abdomen beneath ; e. Intermediate leg ; ./. Anterior 

 leg ; g. Posterior leg. 



of all the pairs brownish yellow ; thighs : first and second pairs 

 pitchy black, apex broadly green; tibise and tarsi green; claws 

 black ; third pair of thighs green, extreme base and apex on the 

 inside piceous; tibiae green, inner margin broadly black; tarsi 

 green, inner margin black and with a dense fringe of short black 

 hairs ; abdomen above green, genital segments brown ; underneath 

 green, base and genital segments fuscous or black." (Scott.) 



Length 2-2^ lines. Length of hinder legs 3-3| lines. 



Hah. Ceylon (Jide KirJcaldy).—Ahica ; Congo (Jide KirTcaldy). 

 Europe; Corsica. 



I include this species in the Indian fauna on the state- 

 ment of Kirkaldy, that he had received specimens froui Ceylon 



