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3. Paurostauria delicata, sp.n. (PI. XV, Fig. 6.) 



Long. Corp. 3 mm. ; exp. tegm. 10 mm. ; lat. tegm. 3 mm. 



Male. — Testaceous (probably green when living, as the abdomen 

 is still green in one of the specimens) ; eyes and vertex brown. 

 Tegmina hyaline, with most of the nervures yellow, except in the 

 dark portions. Marginal area brown, broadest at the apex. An 

 oval, subapical black spot, below which a hyaline curved stripe 

 runs down to the inner margin ; the brown band within this is 

 bisected by the light cross-nervules marking off the marginal area. 

 Costa with a black line, commencing at about half the length of 

 the costal cell, and curving round the end of the subcostal cell ; 

 it also throws oil an expanding pear-shaped black spot, running 

 downwards to half the width of the tegmen, beside the marginal 

 markings. Betweea these black markings, the costa, and the sub- 

 apical spot, the wing is brown, with hyaline markings. The 

 subcostal nervure is broadly black above, narrowly edged with 

 yellow below, and the upper longitudinal nervure is marked with 

 a large black spot in the middle. The curved dividing-line in the 

 middle of the tegmen is edged outside with black, and a series of 

 irregular black markings is continued to the inner margin. Nearer 

 the base are two or three more small black spots, and the greater 

 part of the lower vein of the clavus is broadly black. 



Described from three specimens, without special locality. 



4. Varcia flavicostalis. (PI. XV, Fig. 7.) 



Eicania flavicostaUs, Kirb.: P.Z.S., 1888, p. 554. 



Varcia JlavicostaUs, Melichar : Ann. Xat. Hofmuseums, xiii, p. 319 (1899). 



" Exp. al. 20 mm. ; long. corp. 7 mm. 



'■^ Male. — Head yellow, with four keels; vertex depressed, 

 brown, except at the sides and on the median line ; front quadri- 

 carinate, the angles of the outer carinse very prominent, the middle 

 ones hardly projecting on the frontal edge ; all the carinas black, 

 and with a short dark line on the clypeus between them, the 

 middle ones rather wide apart, and meeting in a point at the 

 extremit}' of the clypeus. Thorax and abdomen blackish brown 

 above, the thorax tricarinate, varied with ferruginous on the sides 

 and along the outer edges of the two outer carinae ; abdomen with 

 the second segment gTeenish, and the base of the three following 

 segments ferruginous. Undersurface of the body and legs 

 yellowish ; the four fi'ont tibiae brownish above ; abdominal 

 segments edged behind with a green line ; the last two segments 

 reddish brown. Wings hyaline ; fore wings with the costal space 

 yellow as far as the black stigma, beyond which is a hyaline space ; 

 hind margin broadly purplish brown, intersected by a curved line 



