208 



FULGOBID^. 



or erect ; face distinctly narrowed upward, abruptly narrower at 

 base, with two or three parallel elevated ridges ; vertex broadly 

 sinuate at base ; pronotum obscurely or scarceh' medially carinate ; 

 anterior femora slightly ampliated above at apices ; posterior tibise 

 with four spines, unarmed above at base. 



1722. Eliphria aiirantia, Hope (A-plmnii), Tr. Linn. Soc. xviii, p. 443, 

 t. xxxi, f. 2 (1841) ; Stcll (E\\yAm&),Stett. enf. Zeit. xxiv, p. 232 

 (1863) ; Atkins. J. A. S. Bemj. liv, p. 151 (1885). 

 Aphana aurora, Hope, Tr. Linn. Soc. xix, p. 133, t. xii, f. 2 

 (1845) ; Stdl (Eliphria), Stett. ent. Zeit. xxiv, p. 232 (1803) ; 

 Atkins. J. A. S. Beng. liv, p. 152 (1885). 



Head, thorax above, sternum, and legs more or less virescent ; 

 abdomen orange-yellow, above very thickly clothed with creta- 

 ceous pile ; teguiioa pale green with a few obscui'e paler spots, 

 and a number of smaller cretaceous spots which are larger and in 

 regular series on the costal area ; wings orange-yellow, green at 

 basal angle, and with a fev/ scattered cretaceous spots ; tegmina 

 with the extreme outer margin and a few small spots on apical 

 area of inner margin black, the last are thickly cretaceoiisly 

 tomentose in the specimen figured ; beneath both the apical 



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Fig. i)0. — Eiqj/r/iu auravfia. 



areas of tegmina and w ings are cretaceously tomentose, and the 

 obscure pale spots to tegmina above are very distinct beneath. 



In old or rubbed specimens the tegmina are dull dark orange- 

 yellow, exhibiting the obscure paler spots, but with all the creta- 

 ceous spots obliterated ; the form figured by Hope as aurantia is 

 somewhat intermediate in this respect. The specimen figured and 

 described above is a fresh specimen. Other specimens have the 

 tegmina virescent with some of the longitudinal veins orange- 

 yellow ; but this character is purely varietal and often confined 

 to only one of the tegmina. 



Length excl. tegm. 19 to 22 ; exp. tegm. 63 to 70 millim. 



Hah. Sikhini {hul . Mus.). Darjiling {Ind. Mus.). Assam ; JST. 

 Khasi and Ktiga Hills {Chennell). 



