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



Long. Corp. 3mm. ; 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, Avith most of the nervures yellow, except in the 

 dark portions, ^ilarginal area brown, broadest at the apex. An 

 oval, snbapical black spot, below which a hyaline curved stx'ipe 

 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 off an expanding pear-shaped black spot, running 

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

 markings. Between these black markings, the costa, and the sub- f 

 apical spot, the Aving is brown, with hyaline markings. The | 

 subcostal nervure is broadly black above, narrowly edged with I 

 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. I*^earer * 

 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. f 



^ '^ 4. Varcia flavicostalis. (PI. XV, Fig. 7.) | 



'-' liicania flavicostalis, Kirb.: P.Z.S., 1888, p. 554. : 



Varcia flavicostalis, Melicliar : Ann. Nat. Hofmuseums, xiii, p. 319 (1899). J 



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



'■'■Male. — Head j'cllow, with four keels; vertex depressed, 

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

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

 ones hardly projecting on the frontal edge ; all the carinae 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 f 

 extremity 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 greenish, and the base of the three following 

 segments ferniginous. TJndersurface of the body and legs ^ 

 yellowish ; the four front 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 



