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first band, where it acquires a tawiiy hue, and extends round the lip 

 to the second band ; a pale red stripe extending along the hind bor- 

 der from the base nearly to the Krst baud : hind-wings pale brown, 

 almost colourless in part of the disk, luteous at the base ; veins 

 black. Length of the body oi lines ; of the wings 7 lines. 

 a. Malabar. Presented by the Entomological Club. 



46. Cercopis hilaris. 



Nigra ,- caput et thorax luteo fasciata ; pectus fiaimm, nigra ma- 

 culatum, ejus discus niaer ; abdomen purpureimi, sublus fia- 

 vum maculis nigris tnviltutum ; pedes fulvi ; tarsi fusel ; 

 alcE anlic<e fuscce Jlavo hifascialce el univitlatce. 

 Black: head shining; front adorned with a semicircular lu- 

 teous band, which is prolonged in a very broad conical form, and 

 occupies the disk of the face ; the latter is pitchy, smooth, very con- 

 vex, with slight transverse furrows, not keeled ; sides and epistoma 

 yellow : mouth yellow, with a black tip : chest dull, very thickly 

 punctured: fore-chesl with a luteous band along the fore border, ex- 

 tending on each side to the base of the fore-wing ; hind border 

 slightly concave : breast yellow ; disk black ; two or three black 

 spots on each side : abdomen purple ; under side yellow, with three 

 rows of transverse black spots ; the side rows on the rim which is 

 very broad: legs tawny ; thighs paler than the shanks ; feet and tips 

 of the shanks brown : fore-wings dark brown, with two narrow yel- 

 low bands; the lirst at one-third of the length, interrupted in the 

 disk, and marked by some dots from thence to the hind border; the 

 second at two-thirds of the length, slightly waved ; a yellow spot in 

 the disk between it and the tip ; a yellow stripe extending along 

 theifore border from the base to the first band : hind-wings gray- 

 ish, tinged with brown at the tips and along the hind borders, 

 luteous at the base : veins black. Length of the body 4^ lines ; of 

 the wings 12 lines. 



a. Malabar. Presented by the Entomological Club. 



47. Cercopis i" STELLATA. 



Cercopis stellata, Guir. Icon. Rig. Anhn. Texte, 368. 

 Malacca. 



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