CROCISA. 519 



Hah. Kumaun ; Bombay ; Madras ; Ceylon ; Burma. 5 S . 

 Len(jth 10-13; e.vp. 25-26 mm. This is a widespread species, 

 occurring also in Europe, Egypt, Arabia, and South Africa. I cau 

 find no differences between it and C. histrio except those mentioned 

 above, \^"hich are constant in a large series examined. 



*915. Crocisa minuta, Rad. Bull. Soc. Kat. Mosc. n. s. vii, 1894, p. 168, 

 $ 6; Ball. Ton. Cat. x, p. 321. 



" 2 • Black. Head covered with white pubescence. Two large 

 spots on the margin of the thorax, with a lougitudinal medial line, 

 two spots on the back and two on the posterior margin, a line 

 bordering the tegulse, another on the tegulee, and a third under the 

 wings, all of white pubescence ; surface of the scutellum flat, 

 posterior margin widely emarginate. Abdomen dull, the posterior 

 margins of the segments with a line of white pubescence inter- 

 rupted in the middle ; on each side of the basal two segments 

 these lines give place to a perpendicular line ; the 2nd, 3rd, and 

 4th ventral segments ^ith, on each side, a spot of white pubes- 

 cence. The tibife and two joints of the tarsi above covered with 

 white hairs. Anterior wings smoky. 



" d resembles the female ; the 6th abdominal segment with 

 two white spots. 



" Hab. Mussooree, X.W. Provinces, India. $ 6 . Length 

 8 mm." 



916. Crocisa massurii, Had. Bull. Soc. Kat. Mosc. n. s. vii, 1891, p. 169, 

 2 6 ; Ball. Ton: Cat. x, p. 321. 



2 . Head, thorax, and abdomen finely and closely punctured, 

 pubescent ; scutellum with its posterior margin widely and not 

 very deeply emarginate, the emai'gination forming a perfect arch, 

 in some specimens with a slight further incision in the middle. 

 Black ; the head except on the vertex, the pronotum, a line along 

 the sides of the mesonotum passing by the tegulse and continued 

 along the base of the scutellum, a medial line ^^■ith a spot on each 

 side on the mesonotum anteriorly, a broad band underneath the 

 wings, a broad longitudinal spot on each side of the basal two 

 abdominal segments, each spot on the 1st segment giving out 

 two perpendicular lines not meeting in the middle of the segment 

 above, and that on the 2nd segment giving out one perpendicular 

 line also not meeting above, and elongate i^pots on each side of 

 the rest of the segments (apical segment excepted) covered with 

 Wuish-white pubescence ; legs variegated on the tibitie and tarsi 

 above with like pubescence; wings subhyaline, broadly fuscous 

 along their apical margins. 



cS similar ; a spot on each side of the 6th segment of bluish- 

 white pubescence. 



Hah. Mussooree; Kumaun; Sikhim (ISOO ft.). $ . X<;?iy<7i 13 ; 

 exjj. 24 mm. J. Length 10-11*5; e.cj?. 21-22 mm. 



