128 ME. W. V. KIRBT ON THE 



*tDu]SrDTJBIA STIPATA. 



Dundubia stipata, Walk. List Horn. Ins. B. M. i. p. 51 (1850). 

 c?. D. clonia. Walk. I. c. p. 66 (1850). 



Described from Ceylon. Mr. Green's specimens are from 

 Kandy. 



*tDU]SrDTIBIA MIXTA, sp. n. 



Long. corp. 30 millim. ; exp. tegm. 97 millim. 



Female. Head black ; body mostly black above and ferruginous 

 telow ; sericeous. Head, especially on the back and face, covered 

 with white pubescence, and with the following reddish markings : — 

 two spots at the back of the vertex, obliquely behind the two 

 hinder ocelli, each enclosing a black dot, two short stripes on each 

 side in front of the vertex, and two spots below each, between 

 the eye and the projecting lateral angle of the vertex ; a tri- 

 angular spot on the upper part of the face, soon followed by a 

 stripe, broad above and narrow below, on the median line ; the 

 lateral ridges of the face (narrowly reddish, the space between 

 sericeous) ; the base of the clypeus in the middle and a cone on 

 the median line running from it; and the rostrum, except the 

 tip and a line on the upper surface, which are black. The pro- 

 notum has a broad reddish stripe in the middle of the front lobe ; 

 the hind lobe is greenish, the lateral curved carina being reddish, 

 running from the black portion of the pronotum, aud marked 

 with black behind; the propectus is black in the middle and 

 rufo-testaceous on the sides, and densely pubescent. Mesonotura 

 black, with two reddish or rufo-testaceous stripes, broadest 

 behind, aud extending in a point to the front margin; the lateral 

 margins are rufo-testaceous, clothed with gilded pubescence ; 

 and the cruciform elevation is rufo-testaceous, the lateral depres- 

 sions being greenish. Abdomen black above, densely clothed on 

 the sides of the three basal segments with white pubescence, of 

 which faint traces are also seen on the following ; the sixth seg- 

 ment has a narrow rufo-testaceous line, interrupted in the middle, 

 at the extremity. Pleura rufo-testaceous ; pectus mostly blackish 

 in the middle ; abdomen beneath rufo-testaceous, laterally bor- 

 dered with white pubescence ; ovipositor darker ; terminal seg- 

 ment black on each side at the extremity and densely hairy ; 

 two small reddish spots on each side of the ovipositor on the black 

 part of the terminal segment. Legs red ; in the front pair, the 

 base of the coxae, the under surface of the femora, and all the 

 tibise and tarsi, except the ba?al half of the former above, are 



