CROCISA. 107 



narrow fascia, its apical margin with a rather wider interrupted 

 one, and the following segments with uninterrupted fasciae of white 

 pubescence ; the apical ventral valve longer than the upper valve, 

 and tapering to a point. 



Hab. Bombay district. 



CROCISA, Jurine. 



1. Crocisa elegans. 



Female. Length 4| lines. — Black, variegated with blue pubescent 

 markings. The clypeus produced : the front covered with blue 

 pubescence, the cheeks also blue. Thorax with three spots in front, 

 two on the disk, a narrow line over each tegula, which unites 

 with a spot placed in a line with the spots on the disk, of blue pile ; 

 the scutellum deeply notched behind, and with an ovate blue spot 

 on each side of. the notch. The sides of the basal segment of the 

 abdomen with a large blue pubescent spot that is deeply emarginate 

 within, the rest of the segments with an oblong spot on each side ; 

 the tibiae and basal joint of the tarsi blue outside ; beneath, the 

 segments have an oblique blue line, these are frequently more or 

 less obliterated. 



Hab. Bombay, Sumatra, Borneo. 



This species is very distinct from C. nitidula ; its head is more 

 elongate, the clypeus being produced ; the spots on the scutellum 

 are frequently obliterated. 



2. Crocisa lugubris. 



Female. Length 7 lines. — Black, and covered with very short black 

 pubescence, opaque, and variegated with snow-white spots ; the 

 front with white pubescence, also a patch behind the eyes at their 

 summit. Thorax with three subovate spots anteriorly, and four 

 small ovate ones on the mesothorax, placed quadrately, two on 

 each tegula, one beneath each, and a longitudinal line beneath it, 

 of white pubescence ; the anterior tibiae and basal joint of the tarsi 

 outside, the intermediate and posterior tibiae at their base, and the 

 basal joint of the tarsi outside, with white pubescence ; wings dark 

 fuscous, the hinder pair palest, with violet iridescence ; two or 

 three small hyaline spots beyond the submarginal cells. The first, 

 second, and third segments of the abdomen with four ovate, white 

 pubescent spots at about equal distances from one another, the 

 two inner spots much smaller than the lateral ones ; the fourth 

 and fifth segments have each two small white spots ; beneath, the 

 second, third, and fourth segments each with two ovate white 

 spots. 



Hab. Australia. 



