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flat stripe, on each side of which are about twelve equally distinct 

 slightly oblique ridges : mouth with a black tip ; maxillae ferrugi- 

 nous ; a black dot near each eyelet: antennae black; first joint yel- 

 low; third joint tawny: chest with four black dots along the fore 

 border: abdomen pitchy above : anterior feet and tips of the hind- 

 feet and of the shanks black ; fore-shanks with black bands : fore- 

 wings brown, darkest along the fore border ; two very large yellowish 

 white spots extend half across the wing from the fore border : hind- 

 wings brown, colourless along three-fourths of the fore border from 

 the base, and with a few colourless streaks elsewhere ; veins black, 

 tawny tovvards the base. Length of the body 5 lines ; of the wings 

 15 lines. 



Var. &. Chest with four black spots ; the two hinder united, and 

 very much larger than the fore pair, 



a, h. Port Natal. From Mr. Tucker's collection, 

 c, d. Port Natal. From M. Gueinzius' collection. 



^ 7. Ptyeltts gigas. 



Cercopis gigas, Fahr. Ent. Si/st. Suppl. 522, 1, 2. Syst. Rhyn. 89, 

 5. Stoil, Cic. pi. 17, f. 96. 



Cayenne. 



8. Ptyelus nebulosus. 



^ Cercopis nebulosa, Fahr. Ent, Syst. iv. 50, 14. Syst. Rhyn. 

 94, 3. 



East Indies. 



O 9. Ptyelus reticulatus. 



Fuscus ; abdomen luridum, apice piceum ; alee ayiticcs nehuloscB. 



Brown, shining : head and chest flat, covered with tawny 

 down, thickly punctured : head almost conical above ; face slightly 

 convex, with a broad, flat, longitudinal stripe, on each side of which 

 are about thirteen equally distinct oblique ridges ; epistoma long, 

 with a black tip : mouth ferruginous, black towards the tip : feelers 

 pitchy ; tips of the joints yellow : abdomen lurid, pitchy at the tip : 

 tips of the shanks and of the feet pitchy : fore-wings clouded, and 

 here and there reticulated with dark brown, very narrow towards the 

 tips: hind-wings brown, darker at the tips, almost colourless beneath 

 the fore border for two-thirds of the length from the base ; veins 

 brown, tawny towards the base. Length of the body 8 lines; of the 

 wings 18 lines. 



a. Philippine Islands. From Mr. Cuming's collection. 



