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Bluish black, elongate-oval, shining, ronghly punctured, pale luteous 

 beneath. Head with a red spot on each side in front of the eye; sides pale 

 luleoiis, sliglitly reflexed; lobes of equal length ; a black patch on each 

 side beneath. Rostrum black, pale luteous at the base, extending to the 

 hind coxae. Antennae black, about half the length of the body; first joint 

 extending nearly to the front; second much longer than the third ; fourth 

 as long as the second, shoiter than the fillh. Thorax red, with six elongated 

 bluish black spots, of which two are transverse and on the fore border, and 

 the other four are oblique; hind angles rounded. Scutellum extending to 

 the angle of the corium ; a red stripe extending along half the length from 

 the tip; sides red for half tlie length from the base. Pectus on each side 

 with three red spots, which are irregularly bordered with blackish blue; 

 sides red. Abdomen beneath red and with blackish blue spots along each 

 side; connexivum red, with blackish blue spots. Legs Mack, streaked with 

 pale luteous. Fore wings with two irregular red spots; costa towards the 

 base and exterior border red ; first spot joining the red part of the 

 costa; second joining the red of the exterior border; a whitish costal streak 

 beyond the middle; membrane black, with a whitish pellucid border. 

 Var. /3. — Thorax with the spots much diminished in size; the red hue more 

 prevalent in the fore wings. Length of the body 3^ lines. 



This species, like the three following and like <S. pulchra, agrees with 

 the European Strachice in structure. 



a — c. Hindostan. Presented by W. W. Saunders, Esq. 

 a. North Hindostan. From Capt. Boys' collection. 



o9. StUACHIA DESIGNATA. cW ^l^^/I^^A''^''''^^ i/'''-^^^ 



Nigra, longi-ovata, nspere punctata, subtus pallide testacea ; caput lateri- 

 bus anticis rcflexis pallide leslaceis ; antenuce corpoj-is dimidio nnn 

 longiures ; thorax margine villa lineaqve semicirculari ramos duos 

 emillente testaceis ; scutellum testacea marginatum, basi convexuni 

 tran.iverse striatum ; pectus el venter vitlis duabus 7nacularibus nigris ; 

 venter vitta intermedia nigra maculari ; pedes basi testacei, tibiis 

 posferioribus testacea fascialis ; alee aulicce vitla angulosa margineque 

 exleriore testaceis. 



Black, elongate-oval, shining, roughly and thinly punctured, pale 

 testaceous beneath. Head in front with reflexed pale testaceous borders ; 

 lateral lobes extending much beyond the middle lobe. Rostrum black, 

 extending to the hind coxae. Antennae black, about half the length of the 

 body; first joint not extending to the front of the head; second much 

 longer than the third ; fourth a little longer than the Second. Thorax 

 with a testaceous border, a slender testaceous stripe and a semicircular tes- 

 taceous line which rests on the hind border and emits a branch to each 

 side near llie lore border. Scutellum bordered with testaceous on each 

 side and at the tip, which is narrow; fore part more convex than the hind 

 part, not punctured, but transversely and very finely striated. Pectus and 

 abdomen beneath with two stripes of large black spots. Abdomen beneath 

 with a middle stripe of transversely elongated black spots. Legs black; 

 femora towards the base and coxae testaceous; posterior tibia with a testa- 

 ceous band. Fore wings with a testaceous stripe which proceeds on the 

 costa from the base, and diverges to the disk and returns to the costa, and 



