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Description of Cucullia SoUdaginis. 
Elytra antice aurantia, postice nigra, binisque maculis ovalibus fla- 
vis ornata. 
Pedes atri, tibiis externis apiceque spinosis. 
In Coll. Dom. Strong. 
Habitat in India Orientali. 
Obs. — This beautiful Cercopis approaches in form some species 
from Bengal and China. It is named in honour of — Strong, Esq. 
F.Z.S, H.S., whose cabinet contains an invaluable collection of re- 
sinous insects, the result of forty years’ assiduity, and certainly 
unrivalled. 
XI. Description of Cucullia Solidaginis, together with its 
Larva. By James Francis Stephens, .Esq., P. E.S., 
F. L.S., he. 
Cue. SoUdaginis. Plate III. fig. 7. 
Alis anticis fusco-cinereis , alhido-variis ; stigmatibus ordinariis dis - 
tinctis, margine interior e vittaque ad anguluw. ani nigris. 
Exj lansio alarum 1 unc. 9 — 10 lin. 
Cue. SoUdaginis . — Stephens' s Illust. Brit. Ent. ( Haustellat.) v. iv. 
p. 890.— No description. 
Head and thorax greyish-ash or brownish : the forehead paler, 
with darker edges : the thorax with an angulated transverse 
streak, and a large triangular dorsal blotch, deep fuscous : 
anterior wings pale ashy-brown, prettily varied with whitish- 
ash : the costa at its apex marked with alternate deep brown 
and whitish streaks, placed obliquely : stigmata very distinct, 
with a double blackish margin ; between the anterior one and 
the shoulder is a pale space, terminated close to the stigma 
by a double waved streak, deepest in colour towards the costa 
and vanishing towards the inner margin ; near the anal angle 
on the inner margin is a short slightly flexuous hoary streak 
edged with fuscous, and on the anal angle is a brown patch 
bearing a short black dash ; the hinder margin bears a waved 
whitish streak, and a faint interrupted black line ; on the inner 
margin is a slender black line : cilia pale fuscous, with the 
base darker : posterior wings fuscous, with the base palest, and 
on the disc a very faint dusky lunule ; nervures fuscescent ; 
