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miJiUc and extends to the tip, and with a red band, which is abbreviated 

 towards the costa and joins the hind part of the exterior border ; membrane 

 biatkisb, with a whitish pellucid border. Length of the body 3 lines. 



a. North China. Presented by J. C. Bowring, Esq. 



62. Strachia velata. 



Ochracea, ovata, sparse punctata, subtus pallide Jlava ; capitis latcra sub- 

 rejiexa; antenna nigra, corporis dimidio longiores, articulo lo 

 ochraceo ; thorax maculis duabus anticis transversis et sex posticis 

 elongatis cinereo-viridibus ; scutellum apice pallide Jlavum, maculis 

 duabus transversis anticis duabusque lo.nceolalis posticis einereo- 

 viridibus elongatis; pectus et venter vitlis duabus viridibus gutlulari- 

 bus ; pedes pallide virides, femoribus apice ochraceis, tibiis apice 

 tarsisque fulvis ; alee anticce striga subcostaii maculisque tribus magnis 

 cinereo-viridibus. 



Orange, oval, shining, thinly punctured, pale yellow beneath. Head 

 smooth; sides slightly retlexed; lobes of equal length. Rostrum pale 

 yellow, extending to the hind coxae ; tip black. Antenna) black, a little 

 more than half the length of the body ; first joint orange, not extending to 

 the front; second shorter than the third; fourth much longer than the 

 third, as long as the fifth. Thorax with eight elongated cinereous-green 

 spots ; two transverse, on the fore border ; the other six forming a band 

 between the hind angles, which are much rounded. Scutelium, which is 

 rather broad and extends beyond the angle of the corium, pale yellow 

 towards the tip ; four large elongated cinereous-green spots ; two trans- 

 verse, on the fore border; two lanceolate. Pectus and under side of abdo- 

 men with two rows of green dots. Legs pale green ; tips of the femora 

 ochraceous ; tarsi and tips of the tibiaj tawny. Fore wings with a cinereous- 

 green subcostal streak and with three large cinereous-green spots, the third 

 joining the streak ; membrane brown. Length of the body 4| lines. 



Like S. varia in structure. 



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



63. Strachia subacta. 



Pallide subtestaceo viridis, elliptica, aspere punctata ; caput margine 

 posiico, vitlis duabus abbreviatis capitatis liturisque duabus parvis 

 nigris ; thorax slrigis quatuor anticis maculisque qualuor subquadralis 

 posticis nigricanlibus ; scutellum maculis duabus anticis transversis 

 subquadralis duabusque posticis lanceolalis nigricanlibus ; pectus et 

 venter vitlis qualuor macularibus nigricanlibus; venter villa inter- 

 media e maculis tribus nigris ; alee unlicm rufcc, apud costam pallide 

 testace<£, striga subcostaii maculisque tribus nigris. 



Pale green, shining, elliptical, roughly punctured, with a slight testa- 

 ceous tinge. Head with two black short capitate stripes on the liind part 

 and with a little black mark on each side of the middle lobe; hind border 

 black; sides very slightly reflexed; lobes of equal length. Rostrum pale 

 testaceous, extending a little beyond the hind coxa) ; tip black. Thorax 

 with four blackish streaks on the fore border, and with four subquadrate 

 blackish spots in a band between the hind angles, which are rounded. 



