rilOM THE JKDIAN ARCmPELAGO. 327 



Pale tawny, moderately broad. Head rather narrower than the thorax, 

 with slightly prominent borders ; vertex keeled, nearly twice as broad 

 as long ; front very flat, nearly horizontal, beneath the vertex. Legs 

 slender ; hind legs rather long ; hind tibiae with two spines. Wings 

 hyaline, with pale veins. Fore wings with a shght testaceous tinge j 

 an irregular subapical line of transverse veins. Length of the body 

 2 lines, of the wings 6 lines. 



Hab. Mysol. 



Grenus Sophonia. 



F(xm. Corpus gracillimum. Caput depressum, longiconicum. 

 Female. Body very slender. Head flat, elongate conical. 



The shape of the head will distinguish JVorsia and Sophonia 

 from the other genera of lassides. 



438. Sophonia rufitelum. Fosm. Albida, vertice lineis tribus mar- 

 ginibusque nigris, scuto lineis quinque marginibusque nigris, scutello 

 abdomineque ochraceo-rufis, alis anticis semihyalinis vittis duabus 

 ochraceo-rufis punctis lineis duabus transversis linea brevi apice dila- 

 tata guttaque subapicali nigris. 

 . Female. Whitish. Vertex with three black lines, and with black borders. 

 Scutum with a black middle line, with a double black line on each 

 side, and with black borders. Scutellum and abdomen orange-red. 

 Fore wings semihyaline, with two orange-red stripes and with two 

 stripes of black punctures; a much outward bent black transverse 

 line beyond the middle ; a more exterior curved partly double black 

 transverse line ; a short black curved line, which extends from the 

 costa and is dilated at the tip, and a black subapical dot. Hind 

 wings hyaline ; veins black. Length of the body 2^ lines, of the 

 wings 4 lines. 

 Hab. Mysol. 



Grenus Nisitra. 



Foim. Corpus gracile. Caput lanceolatum, thorace multo longius ; 

 vertex subcarinatus. Thorax hvewis. PeJes graciles ; tibice pos- 

 tica3 spinosaa. Alee angustse, apice rotundatse. Alse anticse linea 

 submarginali e venis transversis. 



Female. Body slender. Head lanceolate, much longer than the 

 whole thorax ; vertex with a slight keel ; front nearly horizontal, 

 beneath the vertex. Thorax short. Legs slender ; hind legs 

 long, with spinous tibiae. "Wings narrow, rounded at the tips. 

 Pore wings with an irregular submarginal line of transverse 

 veins. 



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