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PULGOEIDyE. 



Hah. " Xorth India " {Brit. litis.). Sylhet ; Sikhim {Ind. Mus.). 

 Assam ; Niiga Hills {Dolierty). 



Hope's figure {supra) was apparently taken from a A'ery bright 

 specimen, with the discal spots on upper surface of tegmiua white, 

 and with three transverse spots to pronotum, and one at base of 

 vertex, pale ochraceous ; in Walker's type of Jectissima these are 

 faintly visible. The species is a variable one, but always to be 

 easily recognized by the distinct and beautiful coloration of the 

 winsfs. 



Genus KALIDASA. 



Phoronis, Sfdl, Stett. cut. Zeit. xxiv, p. 233 (1863), nom. prfeocc. 

 Kalidasa, Kirli. Entomologist, xxxiii, p. 248 (1900), nom. ii. 



Type, K. sanc/uinalis, Westvv. 



Distribution. Oi'iental Region and China. 



Head emitting from the base of the face a long, slendei', mobile, 

 reflexed process (in dried specimens easily and frequently muti- 

 lated) ; face a little narrower at itvS anterior half, abruptly narrowed 

 at base, furnished with t\\"o obtuse parallel ridges, which are often 

 obliterated, lateral margins slightly sinuate on posterior half ; 

 vertex truncate at base ; pronotum very finely medially carinate ; 

 anterior femora distinctly ampliated above near apices ; posterior 

 tibite with four spines and with a tubercle on their upper surface 

 at base. 



1730. Kalidasa sanguinalis, Westw. (Aphana) A. M. N. H. (2) vii, 

 p. 208 (1851); StSl (Phoronis), Stett. ent. Zeit. xxiv, p. 233 

 (1863) ; Kirk. (Kalidasa) Entoviohqist, xxxiii, p. 243 (1900) ; 

 MelicJt. Horn. Faim. Ceylon, p. 16, it. i, f. 3 (1903). 



Head and thorax above pale testaceous : abdomen above testa- 



Fig. 91. — Kalidasa sanguinalis. 



ceous, thickly cretaceously tomentose ; head beneath and sternum 

 pale testaceous ; legs and abdomen beneath pale sanguineous ;. 



