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the greea is more macular and more obscure, and there are also 

 distinct purplish suffusions ; connexivuui spotted with bright 

 shining green ; membrane fuliginous, the veins a little darker : 

 body beneath ochraceous ; lateral margins of head, sternum, and 

 abdomen, and coxal spots bright shining green ; a subapieal black 

 spot to abdomen ; antenn?e fuscous, the bases of the fourth and 

 fifth joints luteous, the second joint a little shorter than the 

 third or fourth ; lateral lobes of the head a little longer than the 

 central lobe, their apices subacute and slightly recurved upwards ; 

 pronotal lateral angles prominent, subnodulose, inwardly with 

 t\\ o distinct grooves ; rostrum reaching the apex of the second 

 abdominal segment. 



Length 18; breadth between pronotal angles 9 millim. 



Hah. B\\\xidi\\{Con. Dist.): 8ylhet {Brit. Mas.). Assam; Mar- 

 gherita and Naga Hills {Dohert)j). 



107. Dalpada mirabilis, Dist. A. M. N. H. (G) xi, p. 389 (1892). 



Olivaceous-green ; a central elongate spot at base of head, its 

 lateral margins, a central fascia, not extending beyond centre, 

 and a narrow transverse fascia on anterior area of pronotum, five 

 small basal spots and an obscure posterior central fascia to scutellum, 

 lateral margins, apex, and the whole inner area of corium, cas- 

 taueous ; membrane very dark castaneous : body beneath and legs 

 ochraceous; lateral margins of head, sternum, and abdomeii some- 

 what broadly olivaceous green ; sternum with transverse spots of 

 the same colour and with two large black spots between the anterior 

 and intermediate coxae ; intermediate and posterior femora spotted 

 with castaneous ; posterior tibia? with the base and apex castaneous. 

 (Anterior legs, intermediate tibiae, and antennae mutilated.) Abdomen 

 beneath with a central black spot on the penultimate segment. 

 Lateral angles of the pronotum moderately prominent and nodulose ; 

 lateral lobes of the head slightly longer than the central lobe. 



Length 25 ; breadth between ])ronotal angles 13 millim. 



Hah. Naga Hills {Do7ie)-t>/). — The type specimen still remains 

 the only example of this large and magnificent species, so that the 

 original description cannot be amplified. 



]9S. Dalpada clavata. Fair. (Chnex) Ent. Si/st. Suppl. p. 532 (1798): 

 Dall. List Hem. i, p_. 184 (1851). 

 Ilalys latipea & concinna, JVestw. in Hope Cat. i. p. 23 (1837). 

 Dalpada bulbifera tfc consobrina, Wall;. Cat. Het. i, pp. 223, 225, 

 10, 20 (18(37). 



Closely allied to the following species {D. versicohr), but with the 

 head longer, latei'al angles of the ])ronotum more obtuse and 

 nodulose, and inwardly marked \^"ith two furrows ; abdomen 

 beneath sometimes with a double series of dark discal spots. 



Length 14 to 17 ; breadth between pronotal angles 7 to S millim. 



Hah. Assam; Margherita (Doherti/). Khtisi Hills (Chemiell). 

 Bombay. Burma ; Bhamo, Teinzo, Palon (Fea). Tenasserim ; 

 Myitta (Doherti/). — Also received from Siam. 



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