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EXPLANATION OP THE PLATES. 



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Plate 21. 



Fig. L Membracts inicans. The imago has a glistening aud talc-like surface. Size 9 x G millimetres. 

 Fig. 2. Membracis vergens. A large species remarkable for its dark hue and its broad ochreous streak. 



Size 12x6 millimetres. 

 Pig. 3. Hanima nodosa. Small, pronotum rugose and contorted into knots. 



3a. The frons and nietopidium. The sides are furnished with small spines. Size 4x2 



millimetres. 

 Fig. 4. Microschema mucronata. Large, remarkable for its bright colour, and sharp apex to the 



dorsal edge of the pronotum. 



4 a. Frontal view of the frons and stemmata. Size 12 x 15 millimetres. 



Fig. 5. Aconophora obfuscata. The imago shows a broad foliated summit of the porrect pi'ocephalon. 



5 a. BVont aspect of the procephalon as seen on edge. Size 11x4 millimetres. 



Fig. 6. Tragopa triangulata. Small and robust in figure. The pronotum does not reach bevond 

 one-half of the tegmina. 



6 a. Dorsal view. The pronotum forms an irregular triangle. The head is below the metopidium, 



which last lias two lateral ear-like processes. Size 4x4 millimetres. 

 Fig. 7. Poppea succinea. This semitransparent insect has the pronotum more or less inflated into 

 coriaceous bubbles which have acute points. Tegmina hyaline and blistered on the surface. 



7 a. The dorsal aspect of the insect. Size 9x3 millimetres. 



Fig. 8. Electrophina pac'ificata. The long wings and the extended suprahumeral horns are distinctive. 



8 a. Frons and metopidium with horns. Size 13x5 millimetres. 

 Fig. 9. Ceresa nitens. Very glistening, amber-coloured, robust. 



9a. Front view of same insect, with its high metopidium and short suprahumerals. Size 9x5 

 millimetres. 

 Fig. 10. Entylia fuscodorsa. Imago with truncated summit of the pronotum, punctured with fine dots 



within the sculptured carinse. Size 6x4 millimetres. 

 Fig. II. Entylia mcesta. Imago small, with greyish pubescence, 



II a. Front aspect of the same showing the thin edge of the procephalon. Size ') x 3 millimetres. 

 Fig. 12. Hypsauchcmia jugulata. This specimen from Sumatra has lost the summit of its procephaloa 

 which, probably like the Indian specie.s, was curved over the back. Size 8x9 millimetres. 



Plate 22. 



Fig. I. Ouranorthus palvs. The winged insect is remarkable for the erect process proceeding from 

 the caudal apex of the pronotum. Though allied, it certainly is not Lamproptera capreolits 

 of Fairmaire. 



1 a. The head, pronotum, and recurved suprahumeral horns of the same insect. Size 



8x5 millimetres. 

 Fig. 2. Anchonfuscum. Allied to A. albolineatum, but it wants the white streak on the pronotum. 



2 a. The front aspect clearly shows that the procephalon is cleft into l)road plates or foliations. 



The insect is bright amber- coloured. Size 7x5 millimetres. 

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