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produced into robust subacute spines, the apices very slightly 

 reflexed backwardly, and with a notched tubercle beneath at about 

 half their length. Scutellum with the basal half very sparingly 

 but coarsely punctate, tbe apical half thickly punctate. Coriurn 

 coarsely and irregularly punctate. Membrane pale hyaline. Body 

 beneath ochraceous, with a sublateral series of castaneous spots on 

 each side; legs pale luteous, the femora annulated with brown 

 near apex. Rostrum ochraceous, the apex pitchy and extending a 

 little beyond posterior coxa?. Antennae with tbe second and third 

 joints subequal in length, apical joint longest. Long. 8 mm. ; 

 exp. pronot. angl. 9 mm. 



Hab. Mungphu, Sikkim, Assam (Calc. Mus. and 

 coll. Dist.). 



This species is allied to the Javan II. tcstacea, Hope. 



Antestia modificata, n. s. (PI. XII., fig. 4). 

 Ochraceous, spotted with bluish black. Head luteous, the mar- 

 gins of the central lobe, margins of the lateral lobes in front of 

 eyes, and two spots at base, bluish black. Eyes brownish. 

 Antennae bluish black. Pronoturn with eight bluish black spots, 

 six largest arranged in double series on disk, and a small rounded 

 spot in each lateral angle. Scutellum with six bluish black spots, 

 four largest arranged in double series on disk, and a smaller 

 elongate spot in each basal angle. Coriurn with four bluish black 

 spots, situate one at base, one at apex, and two central. Membrane 

 pale hyaline, with a large bluish black subquadrate spot at base. 

 Body beneath pale luteous, sternum spotted with bluish black, and 

 abdomen with sutural fasciae and lateral spots of the same colour. 

 Legs luteous, femora with a blackish spot near their apices. Long. 

 7 mm. 



Hab. Sikkim (Calc. Mus. and coll. Dist.). 



Antennae with the second joint shorter than the third, fourth 

 and fifth joints longest. The body above is very sparingly 

 punctate. 



Abeona .' serrata, n. s. 

 Above ochraceous, thickly, darkly, and coarsely punctate ; con- 

 nexivum reddish ochraceous, with black Linear spots near bases 

 and apices of segmental sutures. Antennae four-jointed, first and 

 second joints dark ochraceous; third and fourth joints luteous, 

 with their apical halves blackish; .second joint very long, as long 

 as third and fourth pul together, third and fourth subequal in 

 1 ' . Head with the lateral Lobes much Longer than central 



