PHENICB. 297 



eyes, autennse, central fascia to pronotum, carinas to mesonotum, 

 posterior margin of metauotum, central maculate fascia to abdomen 

 above, anal appendage, rostrum, and legs stramineous ; tegmina 

 black, with paler greyisli -white spots, consisting of a somewhat 

 continuous series on costal area, two prominent on apical margin, 

 and the largest in oblique discal series; wings fuliginous, the 

 venation fuscous. 



Fig. 142. — Fl/cmce rnoesta. 



Length exel. tegm. 2h to 3 ; exp. tegm. 13| to 14 miHim. 



Hah. Assam ; Dibrugarb {fide Bucldon). Bombay {CoU. Dist.). 

 Ceylon {Ycrhury) ; Puttalam, Minikoi (Green). 



The Kev. C. Dowding, of Dibrugarb, Assam, found this insect 

 in considerable numbers on the underside of the leaves of a kind 

 of palm-tree. Mr. Green has also recorded it as frequenting the 

 leaves of a sycamore in Ceylon. 



1844. Phenice superlja, sp. n. 



Head, thorax above, sternum, and legs brownish-ochraceous, 

 the latter two a little paler ; abdomen sanguineous ; tegmina 

 fuliginous, the venation sanguineous, the costal, apical, and inner 

 margins ornamented with larger irregularly-shaped greyish-white 

 spots, basal area a little paler ; wings pale fuliginous, the venation 

 fuscous ; body somewhat convexly gibbous ; mesonotal carina) 

 distinct ; clypeus strongly tricarinate ; rostrum robust, its apical 

 joint minute and piceous ; antennte with the second joint long, 

 roundly incrassate, pale ochraceous, granulate on basal area ; legs 

 more or less deeply longitudinall}'' grooved. 



Length excL tegm. 5 ; esp. tegm. 26 millim. 



Hab. Assam ; Khusi Hills (Brit. 2Ius.). 



1845. Phenice piuictativentris, Kirb,/, J. Linn. Soc, Zool. xxiv, 



p. 144, t. V. f. (1891); Melich. Horn. Faun. Ceylon, p. 55 

 (1903). 



Vertex of head more or less pale virescent, eyes brown ; 

 pronotum and mesonotum very pale dull ochraceous ; abdomen 

 pale testaceous, with a double series of black spots on each side 

 of its upper surface ; body beneath and legs very pale dull ochra- 

 ceous ; tegmina semihyaline, a broad longitudinal subcostal fascia 



