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Genus Creobroter 1 , Serville. 



Creobroter pictipennis, n. sp. (Plate XXXVI. fig. 8.) 



$ . Closely allied to Cr. apicalis, Sauss. ( $ ), from Assam, from 

 which it differs in the form of the pronotum (which is slenderer and 

 more distinctly quadrilobular), in its much narrower and less-de- 

 pressed abdomen (a part which in the species mentioned, as also in 

 Cr. urbanus 5, is greatly dilated and suborbicular and depressed), 

 in its less robust fore legs, and notably in the colour of the wings. 

 The head also is a little smaller, its frontal spine much the same. 



Organs of flight in repose, in the dried insect, extending by about 

 a seventh of their length beyond the extremity of tbe fusiform ab- 

 domen, which is longitudinally strongly roof-shaped below. Teg- 

 mina bright green, yellow at the very base, furnished with a well- 

 defined subquadrate or suborbicular brightyellow spot a short distance 

 from the base, and with a still richer dead-yellow oval ocellus placed 

 a little obliquely across the middle ; this is bordered both on its ex- 

 ternal and on its internal margin by a curved black line ; the black 

 line that borders the base of the ocellus is but slightly curved or is 

 a smaller segment of a larger circle, and sends forwards and inwards 

 at its posterior end a small process, so as to present the appearance 

 of a curved arrow that has lost one of its barbs ; external black 

 line strongly curved, or a larger segment of a smaller circle ; it 

 is preced-ed by an opalescent line rather broader than itself, and upon 

 the veins and veinlets traversing which the yellow of the ocellus is 

 continued ; this is marked with three black dots, all placed in the 

 same straight or slightly curved line, each upon one of the sectors of 

 the organ ; the yellow of the ocellus flows out, as it were, in an irre- 

 gular stream from between the black bounding lines to the sutural 

 margin, accompanied by the translucent white line only ; but at the 

 opposite side its exit is barred by the polished and slightly paler 

 yellow oblong stigma, which there quite blocks up the interval be- 

 tween the ends of the black lines ; the anal gusset is spotted with 

 brown, paling towards the hinder margin, the network being pale 

 green, very narrowly lined with hyaline, and its membranous meshes 

 brown. Wings tricolorous, opaque at the base ; the basal third of 

 the posterior and the basal two thirds of the anterior field of a beau- 

 tiful semiopaque cream-colour, slightly tinged with green ; this is 

 succeeded in the former by a broad band of clear brown (with dark 

 amethystine reflections) lined with hyaline along the transverse vein- 

 lets, and in the latter by a narrower band of semiopaque dull vina- 

 ceous, the rest of both fields being throughout hyaline, slightly tinged 

 and clouded with very pale greenish white, and having the venation 

 rather distinct and also coloured pale greenish white. 



The head, the pronotum, and the outsides of the fore legs bright 

 green, concolorous with the elytra, variegated (the two first-named) 

 and banded (the last) with yellow, much, in fact, as in Cr. apicalis. 



1 Neither "Creobrota" nor "C'reobofra," nor "Creoboter," but "Creobroter," 

 from Kpeas, flesh, and fipiorifp, an eater, icpeo/3pwri;p, so formed on the analogy 

 of (cpto7rw/\i;s, tcp60<j>uyos, k. t. \. 



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