COLOBESTHES. 



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and some similar spots scattered above clavas, some faint greyish 

 sutfusious on central disk near base, and some similar faint 



Fig. 221. — Scarpaniiiia biiiiacidata, 



suffusions on apical area ; wings cretaceous-white, slightly and 

 narrowly ocbraceous at extreme base. 



Length excl. tegm. 10 ; exp. tegm. 34 luillim. 



Hah. S. India ; Trivandrnm {Brit. Mas. <5' Coll. Dist.). 



2017. Scarpautina modesta, sp. u. 



Body and legs pale ocbraceous, apices of the tarsi piceous ; 

 tegmina pale yellow, with short scattered fuscous linear spots 

 beneath radial vein and above clavus, two larger fuscous spots on 

 ceutral disk of apical area, some very minute scattered fuscous 

 spots at base and near apical margin, the extreme margins very 

 faintly and narrowly pale ocbraceous ; wings cretaceous-white. 



Length excl. tegm. 9 ; exp. tegm. 32 millim. 



Hah. S. India ; Trivandrnm {Brit. Mus.). 



Beside the very different colour and markings which distinguish 

 this species from the preceding (»S'. bimaculata), the tegmina have 

 the radial vein concolorous and less prominent, and the posterior 

 angle of the apical margin is slightly less produced. 



Genus COLOBESTHES. 



Colobesthes, A?ni/. cV Sen: Hem. p. .j22 (184.')); 

 Hofmus. JVie72, xvii, p. 42 (1902). 



Melich. Ann 



Type, G. falcata, Guer. 



Distribution. Oriental and Malayan Regions. 



Head (including eyes) a little narrower than pronotum ; vertex 

 about half as long as broad, obliquely widened anteriorly, the 

 anterior margin bi'oadlv subtruncate ; face convex, a little narrowed 

 posteriorly, the lateral margins very broadly ridged, a strong 

 central earinatiou not extending much beyond half its length, its 

 apex attached to a very obscure transversely curved ridge, and 

 on each side followed by an obscure discal curved carination ; 

 pronotum about as loug as vertex, centrally sinuate at anterior 

 margin, which extends to the latitude of the middle of eyes, centrally 

 somewhat obscurely carinate ; mesonotum tricarinate ; posterior 



