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olivaceous posteriorly ; a central longitudinal hastate 

 niarking, dilated into a triangle at its hinder extremity, a 

 short oblique dash, and three lines between it and the 

 posterior lobe on either side, all black ; posterior lobe 

 sub(juadrangulate, blackish in front ; mesothorax bright 

 castaneous pubescent in front, with four subtriangular 

 spots, the two external ones twice as long as the others ; a 

 central longitudinal subtriangular spot with its apex 

 towards the head and clothed at its base with silvery 

 pubescence ; an impressed spot on each side ; all these 

 spots l)lack: metatliorax ochraceous, metathoracic cross 

 unusually wide and compressed: tergum black, sparsely 

 clot] led with Avhitish pubescence at the sides ; the segments 

 (excepting the first) margined with ochraceous and fringed 

 with whitish pubescence ; drum-covers ochraceous : venter 

 and drums black, margins of segments and of drums dull 

 ochraceous : pectus ochraceous pul.)escent ; legs luteous, 

 the tarsi piceous. 



Tegmina above chielly dull brown to beyond the middle, 

 and thence hyaline, brown-spotted to apex ; nervures 

 reddish castaneous ; primitive areolet black, irrorated witli 

 whitish pubescence ; front areolet enclosing two small 

 rounded whitey-brown spots broadly margined w^ith black, 

 a third similar spot at base of fourth discoidal areolet and 

 a fourth, oval, crossing the centre of the fifth discoidal 

 areolet ; a broad dusky brown oblique band, bounded by 

 the pale spots, crosses the tegmina at middle of front 

 areolet, and a second, externally dentate sinuate, curved 

 band runs from end of front areolet to external angle, and 

 is only separated from the first by several dusky whitish 

 rounded spots (intersected by the longitudinal veins) and 

 by a subcuneiform spot at external angle ; a macular 

 brown band runs from costal margin to end of third trans- 

 verse vein ; there are five geminate marginal spots at 

 tenninations of the longitudinal veins, and a short irregular 

 sub-apical band connecting the three up])ermost marginal 

 spots ; A\'ings blue-black ; the nerveless border hyaline 

 white ; the flap entirely brown ; hemelytra below with all 

 the brown parts darker and the dusky bands black, other- 

 wise as above : length of liody 1 inch, 7 lines ; expanse 2 

 inches, 7 lines. 



SixrAwhk (JVal/are). ]].M. 



Nearly allied to P. Kcc/itj)fcn of Fabricius, but differing 



