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rounded posterior marginal spots, niesonotum with four discal 

 spots, of which the two central are largest, face with anterior 

 margin and five transverse linear spots, apical spots to anterior 

 femora, and spots to anterior and intermediate tibiae, black ; 

 posterior tibiae fuscous ; tegmina pale fawn-colour, considerably 

 and irregularly mottled with black, apical margin with distinct 

 and somewhat large black spots, and with a distinct subcostal 

 sanguineous line from base to near middle ; wings greyish-white, 

 slightly palely infuscated, with a cluster of black spots on apical 

 area, of which the innermost are largest. 



Jjength excl. tegm. 11 ; exp. tegm. '32 to 37 millim. 



Hub. Tenasserim {Jide AtJcinson). — Malay Peninsula. 



Genus LOXOCEPHALA. 



Loxocephala, Scliaum. in Evsch $f Gruber, Ally. Encycl. Wiss. u. 

 Kilnste, art. Fula-orellas, sec. 53, p. 71 (1850); Atkins. J. A. IS. 

 ^'cH^. Iv, p. 12 (1886). 



Type, L. cenujinosa, Hope. 



Distribution. Brit. India. 



Wings ample, broader than the tegmina ; vertex of head very 

 slightly sinuate at base or truncated, lateral angles of front less 

 produced than in Thessitus ; clavus narrowly open at apex, the 

 two longitudinal veins nearly united at middle : wings without a 

 dilated area ; head scarcely broader than pronotum ; second joint 

 of antennae very briefly subcylindrical ; posterior tibiae \\ith five 

 spines ; face with the two antei'ior ridges fused at centre, 

 obsoletely continued along lateral margins ; tegmina with the 

 transverse venation continued to basal area ; anterior legs more 

 dilated than the intermediate legs ; rostrum short, nearly reaching 

 the intermediate coxte. 



1702. Loxocephala aeruginosa, Hope (Lystra), Tr. Linn. Soc. xviii, 

 p. 443, t. xxxi, f. 1 (1841) ; >Schauni, m Ersch S,- Gruber (Loxo- 

 cephala), Ally. Uncycl. Wiss. u. Kilnste, sec. 53, p. 71 (1850) ; 

 Athins. J. A. S. Beny. l\, p. 20 (1886). 



Head and pronotum green, meso- 

 notum ochraceous ; body testaceous ; 

 clypeus, rostrum, and legs sanguineous : 

 small marginal black spots on each side 

 of sternum ; tegmina very pale tawny- 

 brown, basal half ornamented with 

 transverse virescent spots, apical margin 

 and a large subapical spot black ; wings 

 greyish-white, apical area pale tawny- 

 brown outwardly, margined with black. 

 In many specimens the black apical 

 margins to both tegmina and wings are absent or obsolete. 



Fig. 99. 



Loxocephala ceruginom. 



