498 MR. HARDY ON DESORIPTIONS OF SOME 
lunate, as in Macropsis, but with an approach to triangular, the 
apex obtuse, yellowish, four minute points on the frontal line 
between the ocelli, and four placed 2 and 2 obliquely, the larger 
. pair anteriorly and most approximated, black ; a small sunk line 
on the vertex, edged as well as the posterior margin, with 
tarnished orange; eyes liver-brown; antenne with the second 
joint dusky, the bristle longish; thorax transverse lunate, the 
fore part yellowish, the hinder and the disc ashy, the surface 
varied or spotted with fuscous or black; scutellum large, yellow- 
varied with fuscescent, two yellow cheques at the base containing 
each a central black spot, transversely impressed, and somewhat 
depressed after the middle, with two black spots behind the im- 
pression ; elytra long, not much expanded after the middle, across 
which they are rounded, the tips overlap each other, and the 
sides are rather compressed posteriorly; fuscous-ash, polished, 
varied between the nervures with numerous black points or atoms, 
single, united into rows, or abrupt longitudinal and cross lines, 
and by the pearly whitness of the nervures, especially where they 
fork or cross each other, apical margin nigro-fuscescent; wings 
nigrescent with dark nervures; abdomen above, bluish black, 
posterior edges of the segments narrowly whitish, which colour 
at the margins extends into minute yellow triangular spots, 
issuing from a yellow lateral stripe, that towards its termination 
throws a band across the fifth; the underside is varied with fus- 
cous and yellow, the lateral and posterior margins of the seg- 
ments being yellow, and the centre fuscescent, with traces of a 
central yellow line, the apical segment set around the apex with 
stiff whitish bristles; fore and middle breast black, with the 
posterior margins, a spot on the pleure and hinder breast, except- 
ing the piceous base, yellow; legs whitish or yellowish white, 
apices of the fore and middle femora with two, of the hinder with 
six, curved spines, the fore tibie pectinated internally, and with 
five widely set spinules on the outer aspect, hinder ones internally 
ciliated, externally set with numerous spines; fore and middle 
coxe with a black patch at the base, their femora with two 
bands, the basal broader, and several spots, a line and several 
spots on the tibiw, and apices of the penultimate tarsal joint, 
