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pile ; the hair on the legs long and fulvous, except on the 

 tarsi where it is longer, stiffer and black ; the spines fringing 

 the fore tarsi bright rufous ; on the inner side of the fore 

 tibiae is a belt of depressed, dark fulvous pubescence ; the 

 calcarla pale fulvous, the tarsal spines black. Wings fulvous- 

 hyaline, darker at the base along the costa ; the nervures 

 rufo-fulvous, the costa darker coloured ; teguhe black on basal 

 half, piceous red on apical, n. 



Length 40 mm. 



Batavia. (Van Nooten leg.). 



Front and vertex strongly and deeply, but not very closely 

 punctured ; a broad, transverse smooth space, furrowed down 

 the middle ; except above the antennaî they are only sparsely 

 covered with blackish hairs. Mesonotum strongly and closely 

 punctured, except for a space in the centre, longer than broad, 

 commencing near the centre and extending to near the apex. 

 Scutellum similarly, but not strongly, punctured ; it is more 

 sparsely punctured in the centre at the base. Post-scutellum 

 more closely punctured, with a smooth space in the centre 

 at the base. Base of metanotum closely punctured with a 

 smooth space, dilated at the base, in the centre ; the apical 

 slope smooth, covered with a fulvous pale. The basal 3 seg- 

 ments of the abdomen smooth, shining, with a distinct viola- 

 ceous and blue iridescence ; the other segments duller, more 

 pilose ; the 4"^ punctured at the base and apex, the middle 

 smooth ; the 5^'^ is closely punctured, more weakly at the 

 base ; the 6^^ thickly covered with stiff, short, black pubescence. 



Is not unlike D. grossa Fab., from which it may be known 

 by the thorax and head being much more closely and strongly 

 punctured, by the base of the metanotum being larger, by 

 the wings being clearer at the apex and by the fringe on the 

 abdominal segments being black ; and it it is a larger insect. 

 The Indian D. hnlirovoina iSm. appears to be closely allied ; 

 but it has the abdominal fimbriae »rich golden fulvous, with 



