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patch Oil each side. Ahdonien beneath with two irregular and interrupted 

 emerakl-green stripes, and with a large patch near the tip of the same 

 hue; some tawny dots along each side. Coxae tawny; femora dark 

 green. Fore wings extremely thickly and minutely punctured ; membrane 

 seneous-biown. Length of the body 17 lines. 



The thorax is more dilated in front than that of P. stabile, but less so 

 than that of P. amplicoUe. 



a. Siara. From M. Mouhot's collection. 



14. Pycanum pallipes. 



Nigro-viride, subtilissime et confertissime punclaf.um, subtics pallide luleum ; 

 caput margine postico vittaque interrupta pallide luteis ; antennce 

 lutece, arliculo 2o supra fusco %mria, 3o fmco apice flavo, 4o nigro 

 basi Jluvo ; thorax luteo perangusle nmrginatus, transverse et scite 

 striatus, lateribus anticia valde dilatalis rectangulalis tongitudinaliter 

 striatis ; scutellum transverse riigulosum ; abdomen dor so purpurea, 

 connexivo viridi fusco-marginato ; ala anticm rufescente nigricantes , 

 membrana smaragdina. 



Blackish green, pale luteous beneath. Head, thorax and scutellum 

 very thickly and minutely punctured. Head pale luteous behind and with 

 an interrupted stripe of that hue. Eyes pale luteous, with ferruginous 

 disks. Antenuaj luteous; second joint more or less brown above; third 

 brown, yellow towards the tip, much shorter than the second; fourth black, 

 yellow towards the base, a little shorter than the second. Thorax with a 

 very narrow luteous border, transversely and finely striated ; fore part on 

 each side much dilated, longitudinally striated, forming a well defined 

 right angle. Scutellum transversely rugulose. Abdomen above purple; 

 connexivum deep green, bordered with brown and at the tip with pale 

 luteous. Fore wings blackish, irregularly red about the borders; membrane 

 emerald-green. Hind wings blackish cinereous. Length of the body 

 12 lines. 



It seems to form a link between the genera Pi/canum and Dalcantha, 

 and in the latter genus it has most affinity to D. regia. 



a, b. — North Hindostan. Presented by Capt. Strachey. 



Genus 18. DALCANTHA, C. H. 345. 

 1. Dalcantha dilatata, C. H. 34o. 



«f, b. Silhet. From the Kev. J. Stainforth's collection. 



c. Silhet. 



d. Hindostan. From Mr, Stevens' collection. 



2. Dalcantha inermipes. 

 inermipes, Stal, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 3rd Ser. i. 599. 

 a. Funjaub. From Mr. Fortune's collection. 



