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ClXIIDiE. 



*tCisiirs NUBiLUs. (Plate Y. fig. 13.) 



Cixius nubilus. Walk. List Horn. Ins. B. M., Suppl. p. 80 (1858). 



The type-specimen is unset and in very poor condition, and 

 the species is consequently undeterminable by the original 

 description, and I therefore redescribe it. 



Long. Corp. 4-4^ millim.; exp. tegm. 10-11 millim. 



Brown ; orbits, some lines on tbe thorax, and the incisions of 

 the abdomen (narrowly) whitish ; legs testaceous. Tegmina 

 light brow^u, varied with black and subhyaliue markings ; all the 

 nervures white, and marked with single or double rows of black 

 spots, from each of which proceeds a single hair; at the extremity 

 of each nervure, just before the margin, which is whitish, the 

 extreme outer edge being brown, stands a distinct white spot. 

 The principal subhyaline or whitish markings are firstly two large 

 and one small space on the costa, separated by darker spaces, 

 and followed by a large stigma-like mark, which is light brown, 

 edged with pale at each extremity. The first of these, which 

 sometimes coalesces with the second after crossing the first 

 nervure, runs down in a point half across the wing ; below and 

 beyond its lower part stand some black markings, and there is 

 another on the inner margin, surrounded with a clear space. 

 Beyond this is an oblique clear spot rather below the middle of 

 the wing, and a smaller one near the inner margin, separated by a 

 black spob. Beyond the third vitreous spot on the costa a blackish 

 line, forming a slight curve towards the base, runs nearly to the 

 inner margin ; it is bordered on the outer concavity with pale. 

 Beyond this is a conspicuous oblique black spot on the inner 

 margin, and two small black spots (sometimes connected into a 

 short, slightly zigzag line) a^bout the middle of the wing. Between 

 the stigmoidal spot and the tip of the tegmina is a large dusky 

 space, with a white dot near its upper edge, and its inner side 

 narrowly edged with pale. Beyond it is a w^hite band, more or 

 less divided in two by an oblique spot opposite the hind margin, 

 but not quite extending either to the costa or the inner margin. 

 Wings iridescent subhyaline, with brown nervures. 



This species is difficult to describe intelligibly, but should be 

 easily recognizable by the white nervures, bearing setiferous 

 black dots and ending in a submarginal series of white spots. 



Pundaloya. 



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