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dilated ai-ea ; posterior tibiae normally with four spines ; anterior 

 femora and tibia? distinctly dilated ; clypeus convex. 



This genus, according to present knowledge, is confined to 

 British India, and comprises only two species. 



1765. Nesis tricolor. Walk. (Eurybracliys) List Horn, ii, p. 384 



(1851) ; Stal (Nesis), Rio Jan. Hem. ii, p. 67 (18(32) ; id. Stett. 

 enf. Zeit. xxiv, p. 248 (1863) ; Athins. J. A. S. Beng. \\, p. 21 

 (1886). 

 Aphana sanguiuipes, Stal, Ofv. J'et.-AJc. Fork. 1854, p. 245 ; 

 Afhius. (Nesis) J. A. S. Bern/. Iv, p. 21 (1886). 



Head above fuscous-brown ; thorax above piceous, densely 



palely ochraceously pilose ; abdomen, 



sternum, and legs sanguineous ; face 



browiiish-ochraceous; clypeus testaceous; 



abdominal apex furnished with long white 



waxy eiflorescence ; tegmina black, with 



scattered pale ocbraceous pilosity, taking 



the form of short fascije or spots, apical 



Fig. 100.— iW.v/s /ricolor. Vive^ fuscous-browu with scattered black 



spots ; tegmina beneath more uniformly 



black ; wings cretaceous- white ; vertex of head distinctly nodidose 



on each side near eyes. 



Length escl. tegm. 9 ; exp. tegm. 27 to 28 millim. 

 Hah. " Himalayas '' (t'o7/. Z'/si.). ly\xvo{Coll. Dlst.). Mussorree 

 (^Mackinnon). 



1766. Nesis versicolor, sp. n. 



Head, pronotum, mesonotum, face, and legs tawny-brown ; 

 abdomen above and beneath pale testaceous, the anal ajjpendnge 

 ochraeeous ; sternum ocbraceous ; rostrum (more or less), outer 

 dilatations of anterior tibiae, tarsi, and two oblique spots at base 

 of anal ap|)endage beneath piceous ; tegmina fuscous-brown, with 

 numerous large and irregular dull grey spots on basal two-thirds, 

 a subapical transverse fascia and large irregular spots on basal 

 two-thirds sanguineous ; apical area witli two transverse series of 

 small black spots, the innermost much more discontinuous ; wings 

 creamy white. 



Length excl. tegm. 8.^ : exp. tegm. 27 millim. 



Hah. Pan jab ; Dalbousie {Harford, Brit. Mas.). 



Allied to N. tricolor, Walk., from which it may be separated by 

 the different colour of the tegmina, which are also a little more 

 concavely indented on costal margins before apices, and by the 

 more dilated anterior lees. 



Genus FRUTIS. 



Frutis, StSl, Ofv. Vet.-Ak. Fiirh. 1862, p. 488 ; Atkins. J. A. S. Bemj. 

 Iv, p. 13 (1866). 



Type, F. pulchra, Gray. 



Distribtition. Oriental and Malayan Eegions, and recorded from 

 China. 



