ICARIA. 389 



$ ^ . Yery closely allied to /. marginata, of whicli the present 

 may be an extreme variety ; it diiJers only iu colour as follows : 

 ferruginous brown, the base of the mandibles, the clypeus, a spot 

 between the base of the antenme, the inner orbits and the sinus 

 of the eyes, a line behind tlie eyes, the anterior and posterior 

 margins of the prothoi-ax, the tegulj©, the scutellura anteriorly, the 

 postscutellum, two large oval marks on the median segment pos- 

 teriorly, a spot beneath the base of each wing, the posterior margin 

 of the petiole and of the i2nd abdominal segment, and a large 

 spot on each side of the base of the last, yellow ; legs ferrugiuous 

 variegated with yellow ; wings hyaline, with a small subapical cloud 

 on the fore wing. 



Hah. Poona, Bombay; Bangalore; Tenasserira. $. Length 

 9-10 ; exp. 20 mm. ^ , Length 5-6 ; exp. 13 mm. 



677. Icaria artifex, Sauss. Mon. Giu'p. Soc. p. 2.30 ; S^nitk, Cat. V, p. 98. 

 Icaiia variegata, Sauss. {nee Sniitli) Mo7i. Giu'j). Soc. p. 25, ])1. iv, 



tig. 3, ^. 



2 ^ . Head, thorax, and abdomen obscurely pubescent, the 

 head, pro- and mesonotum, and scutellum finely granular; median 

 segment glabrous, with a medial longitudinal furrow, vertical or 

 very slightly sloped ; petiole of abdomen gradually thickened to 

 the apex, the latter not spherical. Black or rufescent brown ; 

 clypeus except a long, medial, vertical fuscous spot, the maudibles, 

 a line on the front of the scape of the antennae, a line on the 

 posterior margin of the prouotum, sometimes the anterior also, 

 the teguloe, the scutellum and postscutellum, and a broad stripe 

 down the middle of the median segment divided in two by the 

 groove (sometimes an outer yellow longitudinal stripe also), a line 

 on each side at the base of the petiole, a transverse line on its 

 apex (sometimes obsolete), a large spot on each side at the base 

 of the 2nd abdominal segment, and a transverse band on its apex 

 yellow, the antennae and the 3rd and apical segments of the abdo- 

 men ferruginous ; legs reddish brown or black, the intermediate 

 and posterior eoxje behind and the knees yellow ; wings hyaline 

 yellowish, with the stigma yellow along the costal margin of the 

 fore wing, and a subapical fuscous cloud iu the radial cell. 



Var. The yellow markings more or less obsolete or re2)laced by 

 fulvous or ferrugiuous. 



Hab. Sikhim ; Barrackpore ; Dehra Duu ; Mussooree ; Pegu 

 Hills, Burma ; Tenasserim ; Java. $ . Length 12-13 ; exp. 25 mm. 

 ^ . Lengili 10 ; exj). 2U mm. 



678. Icaria sumatrae. 



^'L■^^pa suiiuitnu, Weber, Observ. Ent. p. 103. 



Authreiieida coronata, White, A. M. N. H. vii (1841) p. 321, 



footnote ; Sauss. Mon. Guep. Soc. p. 246, $ ; Sviith, Cat. v, 



p. 100. 



$ or ^ . Very like /. speciosa, Sauss. Head, thorax, and 

 abdomen very coarsely punctured, w ith a rugose granular appear- 



