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929 CATALOGUE OF 
and stout ; femora speckled with brown and black ; tarsi with brown tips. 
Fore wings with three very slight brown patches; membrane cinereous, 
with brown streaks between the veins. Length of the body 6 lines. 
It has much resemblance to D. oculata, from which it may be distin- 
guished by the more acute front of the head. 
a, Jaya. Presented by J. C. Bowring, Esq. 
14. DaLpaDA APICIFERA: 
Sordide testacea, elliptica, fusco conspersa, subtus pallide lutea ; caput 
fusco suffusum, thorace sat brevius, lobo medio lobos laterales per- 
paullo superans ; rostrum nigricans, basi testaceum, coxas posticas 
superans ; anlenne picee,gracillime, corpore multo breviores, articulis 
40 doque basi testaceis ; thorax vittis quatuor fuscis interruptis inde- 
terminalis, angulis posticis bene determinatis viv acutis ; scutellum 
fusco bivittatum, basi luteo trimaculatum ; pectus et venter eneo bi- 
villala; abdominis dorsum maculis lateralibus pallide luteis ; pedes 
robust, femoribus nigris luteo conspersis, tibiis nigris luteo unifas- 
cialis ; ale antice fusco et rufescente plagiate, membrana cinerea 
venis strigisque fuscis. 
Dingy testaceous, elliptical, minutely punctured, punctures brown ; 
under side pale luteous and very finely punctured. Head above mostly 
brown, rather shorter than the thorax; middle lobe extending very little 
beyond the lateral lubes. Eyes very prominent. Rostrum ratber slender, 
blackish except towards the base, extending rather beyond the hind coxe. 
Antenne piceous, very slender, much shorter than the body ; first joint 
extending nearly to the front of the head; second very much longer than 
the first; third longer than the second; fourth and fifth testaceous towards 
the base; fourth longer than the third and than the fifth. Thorax with 
four brown irregular and interrupted stripes, slightly and transversely im- 
pressed near the fore border; hind angles prominent, hardly acute, slightly 
elevated. Scutellum attenuated towards the tip, extending a little beyond 
the hind angle of the corium, with two irregular brown stripes which are 
dilated and connected towards the base, on which there are three pale 
luteous spots. Pectus with two broad irregular marginal dull eneous 
stripes, Which are partly cupreous and are continued in two narrower stripes 
beneath the abdomen, where they include pale luteous spois; these are 
connected with like spots on the upper surface. Legs stout; femora black, 
speckled with pale luteous, wholly pale luteous towards the base, the luteous 
hue most prevalent in the hind legs; tibia black, with a broad middle pale 
luteous band; tarsi black towards the tips. Fore wings with three brown 
and with three dull reddish patches, two of the latter on the outer border ; 
membrane cinereous, with brown veius and with several brown streaks. 
Length of the body 8 lines. 
It much resembles D. oculata, but the hind angles of the thorax are 
not globose. 
a. Hong Kong. Presented by J. C. Bowring, Esq. 
15. DaLPADA NODIFERA. 
Fulva, elliptica, aspere punctata, nigro conspersa, sublus lulea ; caput 
thorace sat brevius, niyro triviltatum, lobis longitudine aqualibus ; 
rostrum nigrum, basi luteum, abdominis segmentum lum atlingens ; 
