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longer than it is broad beneath the middle, gradnally slightly amplified 
from the base beyond the middle, thence on both sides obtusely rounded 
furnished with an obtuse median ridge running through it, slightly im- 
pressed on both sides within the lateral margins, not tumescent at the 
base: thorax with a median ridge (Stal). Body long, 8; with teg., LOZ; 
exp. teg., 24 millims. 
Reported from Tranquebar. 
105. FLATA MARGINELLA, Guérin. 
Ricania marginella, Guérin, Voy. La Coquille Zool. ii (2), p. 192 (1830) ; Icon. 
Régne Animal Ins., t. 58, f. 6 (1830-34) ; Voy. Bélanger Ind. Orient. p. 467 (1834) 
Peciloptera marginella, Spin., A. 8. H. ¥. (1 sér.) viii, p. 433 (1839) ; Walker, List 
Hom. B. M. ii, p. 443 (1851). 
Nephesa marginella, Walker, J. Linn. S. Zool. i, p. 161 (1857). 
Peciloptera fimbriolata, Stal, Ofvers. K. V.-A. Forh. p, 247 (1854). 
Phyllyphanta fimbriolata, Stal, Freg. Hug. Resa, p. 282 (1859) ; Ofvers. 1. Cr 
p. 159 (1865). 
Head greenish-yellow: frons elevated in a small, conical, some- 
what projecting process: pro- and meso-notum, fresh green with four 
longitudinal lines converging towards the head, the two internal a little 
broader and more visible, also some patches on the sides, bright orange 
or miniaceous red: metanotum and abdomen yellowish-white mingled 
with some green tints: head beneath, four anterior tibie, and anus pale 
brown: entire body beneath, four anterior femora, and posterior feet 
very pale green: tegmina falciform, very fresh green, reticulated orange, 
outline bordered russet and dentate within, very slender at the side and 
external margin, broader on the posterior margin; towards the end of 
this margin, at the second third from the base, there is a small rounded 
russet patch touching the border and placed near the exterior dilated 
angle: wings milky-white with slightly greenish and bluish reflections : 
abdomen and feet greenish-white (Guérin). Long, 6; exp. teg., 19 
millims. : 
Stal’s description of his P. fimbriolata, which was clearly made 
from a faded specimen, is :—‘‘ Yellow, streak on vertex and thorax and 
entire limbus of tegmina, fuscous-sanguineous, disc of thorax with two 
luteous streaks ; frons reflexly-margined, furnished on both sides with 
a very obsolete ridge towards the base, but towards the apex entirely 
evanescent; disc of thorax bicarinate; scutellum 4-carinate, with the 
lateral ridges abrupt behind the middle, somewhat flat between the 
median ridges; colour of tegmina changing into subvirescent, cellules 
margined lutescent, clavus granulate inwards ; wings milk-white. ¢ long, 
7; exp. teg., 20 millims.” 
Reported from Cochin-China, Malacca, Borneo ; the Indian Museum 
possesses a specimen from Siam, 
