BAPTISTA. 



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Vi" \2'^.— -J"cf"^' (■iii'iTi/s. 



with a broad piceous submaroinal fascia ; a spot on each side of 



anterior pronotal lobe, two spots 

 on first, and soraetin)es a small 

 spot on sixth abdominal segment 

 dull silvery - white ; pronotum 

 with a distinct central longitu- 

 dinal carination. 



Length 6 to 7 miilim. 

 Hah. Murree (Sloliczl'a, Lid. 

 Mns.). — AVidely distributed 

 throughout the PalKarctic 

 Region, 



This species was collected by 

 Dr. Stoliczka during the Second 

 Tarkand Expedition, but was not 

 included in the collection for- 

 warded to this country and which 

 I worked out in 1879. The fully developed form is everywhere 

 verv rare. The immature insect is found commonly in streams, &c. 



Genus BAPTISTA, iiov. 



Type, B. gestroi, Dist. 



Distribution. Burma. 



Head subtriangular with a distinct central longitudinal ridge, 

 eyes prominent; antennae with the first joint thickened, curved, 

 almost as long as head, second joiiit less thickened, shorter, but 

 more than half the length of first, third and fourth joints very 

 slender, third longest, fourth much longer than first, all the joints 

 very finely setose ; pronotum M'ith an obscure central carination, 

 the lateral angles subprominent, anterior angles truncate behind 

 eyes ; anterior femora slightly curved in male, strongly curved in 

 female, their apical areas thickened and obscurely toothed beneath 

 near apices ; body beneath imperfectly seen in carded specimens. 



1)58. Baptista gestroi, &p. u. 



Piceous ; hemelytra black, with two oblique 

 linear spots at base, five or six discal spots on 

 posterior half and a spot at apex creamy- 

 white ; first and second joints of antenna? 

 and the legs ochraceous ; apices of femora 

 and bases of tibiae a little iiifuscated; 

 lateral margins of the pronotum somewhat 

 laminate and acute ; femora very finely^ and 

 obscurely hirsute beneath, in the female 

 these hairs are more prominent and tut't- 

 like near apices of posterior, femora ; 

 anterior femora much curved in female, 

 very moderately so in male. 

 Length 3g to 4 miilim. 

 Hah. Burma ; Karennee {Fea). 



Fig. 126. 

 Baptista gestroi, 5 



