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on each side, bordered by a rim, almost straight where it joins the 

 epistoma, very much lonjier than broad; epistoma rather long; side 

 compartments small : second joint of the feelers black, linear, very 

 long : fore-chest as long as the head, convex in front, slightly con- 

 cave behind, a little longer in the middle than on each side : middle- 

 chest full thrice the length of the fore-chest : abdomen oval, very 

 thick, a little longer than the chest : legs pale green, powdered with 

 white: wings white: hind-wings rounded along the tips and be- 

 tween the latter and the hind borders; fore border undulating; 

 veins whitish ; longitudinal veins very few, forked towards the tips ; 

 cross-veins none with the exception of very few rudiments. Length 

 of the body .'H lines ; of the wings 10 lines. 

 a. Port Natal. From M. Gueinzius' collection. 



Genus 9. COLOBESTHES. 



Colobesthes, Amyol el Serv. Hist. Nat. Him. 522, 4, 11 



Flata, Fabr. 



Cicada, Donovan. 



Poeciloptera, Bunneister, Spinala. 



1. COLOKESTIIES FALCATA. 



Colobesthes falcata, Amyot et Serv. Hist. Nat. Him. 523, 1. 

 Poeciloptera falcata, Giiii; Voy. Belanger, 469, pi. 3, f 5. Sjyin. 

 Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. viii. 430, 7. 



a. Java. From Mr. .Argent's collection. 

 b. ? 



2. Colobesthes cvndida. 



Flata Candida, Dumiril, Cons. Gin. Ins. 219, pi. 38, f. 1. 

 PoEciloptera Candida, Burm. Handb. Ent. ii. 1, 162, 1. Spin. Ann 



Soc. Ent. Fr.viW. 4-31,8. 

 Flata Candida, Fabr. Ent. Syst. Sujipl. 517, 3. Syst. Rhyn. 45, 2. 

 «, h. Java. From Mr. Argent's collection. 



3. Colobesthes tuuncaticobnis. 



Poeciloptera truncaticornis, Spin. Ann. Soc. Ent. viii. 429, 6, pi 16 

 f. 3. ' r . 



a. Philippine Islands. From Mr. Cuming's collection. 



