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the North-eastern Frontier of India. 
with two large whitish spots, one on the outer and the other 
on the inner border. Abdomen above shining green, very 
thickly punctured, with a marginal row of three luteous spots, 
which appear on margins of alternate segments above and 
below. Body beneath luteous, breast thickly punctured with 
brassy black. Abdomen with a central, narrow, longitudinal, 
impunctate area, from which it is sparingly punctate halfway 
to outer border, which is very thickly punctured with brassy 
black ,* a large black subapical spot. Legs luteous, with the 
apices of the femora, and bases and apices of intermediate and 
posterior tibise brassy black; fore tibise very widely dilated 
and strongly punctured, black ; fore tarsi black, inter¬ 
mediate and posterior tarsi luteous with apex black ; tibise 
strongly sulcated. 
Long. 17 millims., exp. lat. ang. pronot. 9 millims. 
Var. A. Smaller, with the ground-colour brownish instead 
of brassy black. 
Allied to C. furcellata , Wolff, from which it differs princi¬ 
pally in the shorter and obtuse lateral angles of the po- 
notum. 
North Khasia hills, 1500 to 3000 feet. 
Canthecona hinotata , n. sp. 
Luteous, thickly punctured with brown. Central lobe 
reaching apex of head, lateral lobes thickly covered with 
brassy black punctures. Eyes prominent, fuscous, luteous at 
base. Antennae with second and third joints subequal, fourth 
rather lougest; first and second joints luteous, third and fourth 
dark fuscous, luteous at base; rostrum luteous, with the tip 
reddish. Pronotum considerably deflexed from base towards 
head, with a central raised longitudinal line, which is pro¬ 
longed through the whole length of the scutellum ; lateral edges 
with an indistinct, obscure, violet submarginal border, and 
some other indistinct striae of the same colour on disk ; lateral 
angles produced into short, obtuse, black spines, emarginate 
and luteous at tip. Scutellum somewhat gibbous at base, 
where it is thickly and darkly punctured, the central longitu¬ 
dinal line becoming broad and impunctate towards apex. 
Corium with a somewhat triangular subcostal blackish spot 
situated a little beyond medium. Membrane produced con¬ 
siderably beyond abdomen, black, with the apical half whitish. 
Abdomen above blackish, with a segmental marginal row of 
alternate subquadrate green and luteous spots. Body below 
luteous; breast with three violet streaks on each side ; abdomen 
with the marginal row of subquadrate green spots as above, a 
submarginal row of narrow, transverse, waved, dark lines, 
