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whitish, the costa fringed with short rufous hairs. Wings pellucid, the 

 veins brown, abdominal margin white. Abdomen above finely strigose, 

 with a slight elevated median line, apex ferrugineous. Legs with sparse 

 rufous hairs ; tibial spines long, rufous-brown. 



Length of the body, 14 mm. ; length of elytra, 19 mm. ; length of 

 thorax, 4^ mm. ; width of thorax, 7 mm. 



Appears to be most nearly allied to //. conspersa, Brunn. (syriaca, 

 Sauss. ). 



Caloptenus pUipes, O. Janson. Robust, tawny brown. Head convex, 

 and mottled with lighter brown behind ; vertex sub-elliptical, concave ; 

 face sparsely punctured, shining ; mouth, margins of the frontal costa and 

 sides of the face whitish ; eyes luteous ; antennae testaceous. Thorax 

 produced and broadly rounded behind ; the base and sides finely scabrose ; 

 the central carina well-marked and entire, the outer ones broken and 

 almost obsolete behind ; with four transverse impressed lines, the first 

 close to the anterior margin, well-marked at the sides, but almost obsolete 

 on the disk, the second sinuous and only reaching a little beyond the outer 

 carinae ; the third sinuous and extending nearly to the lateral margins ; 

 the fourth straight and of the same length as the third. Elytra pale 

 cinereous brown, the base, veins, and several obscure marks near the apex 

 darker. Wings pellucid and slightly tinged with purple, which is more 

 pronounced in certain lights ; veins dark brown. Anterior and inter- 

 mediate legs testaceous, sparsely pubescent, underside and tarsi whitish ; 

 posterior femora very broad, clothed with fine white pubescence, outer side 

 pearly white, inner side red ; posterior tibiae pubescent, bright yellow, 

 paler towards the base ; apex of spines black. Abdomen and underside 

 pale ferrugineous brown, shining, apex of the former pale cinereous ; 

 prosternal spine strong, rounded, obtuse at its apex. 



Length of the body, 35 mm. ; length of elytra, 24 mm. ; length of the 

 posterior femora, 20 mm. ; length of the posterior tibiae, 19 mm. 



Allied to C. testaceus, Walk. 



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