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^ Genus 7. CHALEPUS, n. 



Caput antice attenuatum^ compressum^ suharcuatum, ascendens. 



Head prolonged like those of some Fulgorina, attenuated, 

 compressed, ascending, more or less curved. 



(/ 1. ChALEPUS HASTATUS. 



Ferruginea ; caput supra et apice nigrum ; fades et pectus flavo 

 bivittata ; thorax Jiavo bimaculatus ; scutellum piceum, apice 

 Jlavuin; abdomen testaceum ; pedes testacei ; alee anticce Jlavo 

 fuscce. 



Ferruginous : head and chest finely punctured : head mostly 

 black above towards the tip, forming a long pointed horn, which is 

 inclined upwards, and whose length is more than twice its breadth 

 at the base ; face slightly convex, with a yellow stripe on each side ; 

 epistoma pitchy, with a tawny stripe : mouth ferruginous, reaching 

 the middle hips ; tip pitchy : chest with a small yellow spot on each 

 side ; scutcheon pitchy with a yellow tip : breast with a yelluw 

 stripe on each side : abdomen and legs testaceous ; tips of the feet 

 pitchy : fore-wings yellowish brown, narrow, very convex along the 

 fore border, almost spindle-shaped: hind-wings broad, almost 

 colourless, with a tawny tinge towards the base ; veins brown, tawny 

 towards the base. Length of the body 4^ lines ; of the wings 

 9 lines. 



a. 



^ 2. Chalepus telifeeus. 



Ferrugineus ; caput piceo trivittatum ; fades Jlava, piceo vittata ; 

 thorax piceo trivittatus ; pectus fulvum ; abdomen rufescens, 

 segmentorum marginibus Jiavis ; pedes fulvo-JIavi, tibiis ante- 

 rioribus rufis, tarsis anierioribus piceis ; alee antica angustce, 

 piceo bifasciatce. 



Ferruginous : head and chest minutely punctured, covered with 

 tawny down : head tapering, much inclined upward, forming a long 

 prismatic pointed horn ; its length more than twice its breadth at 

 the base ; three pitchy stripes above ; face yellow, spindle-shaped, 

 with a pitchy stripe along the disk, on each side of which are ten 

 distinct very oblique cross ridges ; epistoma yellow, with a ferrugi- 



