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Thorax — Pronotum black, collar pale green except at the Bides ; posterior margin 

 white, in the centre forming a triangular patch, and on either side, next the 

 posterior angle, a lunate one ; disc with an oblique green streak on each side 

 of the centre, terminating in a round spot on the callosities ; sometimes the 

 entire centre is pale green, of a trapeziform shape, or having, in addition 

 thereto, a black X-shaped patch between the callosities. Scutellum green, 

 base as far as the transverse channel piceous or black, except a narrow streak 

 within the basal angles ; on each side, before the apex, a short, oblique black 

 streak, becoming fuscous as it approaches the centre, from which it is sepa- 

 rated by a pale narrow line ; apex white. Elytra green. ClaviLS with a large 

 irregular black patch next the suture, interrupted by about three short, oblique 

 green streaks, sometimes dividing it into separate patches, or, almost entirely 

 black with the exception of the three short streaks and a narrow line exteading 

 from the scutellar angle to the apex, which last is always black. Corium, 

 anterior margin with four or five black spots of irregular size, sometimes fewer, 

 apex broadly black ; disc with an irregular broadish black band generally 

 opposite to the apex of the scutellum, and more or less marbled with small 

 green spots of irregular shape ; below the band and next the claval suture a 

 few more or less confluent black spots, the obtuse rhomboidal patch at the 

 apex margined with black on its inner margin and along the membrane 

 suture as far as the inner basal angle of the cuneus, where it terminates in a 

 black spot, sometimes detached, between this and the apex of the anterior 

 margin generally rosy. Cuneus broadly and irregularly black at the apex, in 

 which are some minute green spots ; extreme apex pale. Membrane pale, 

 inner basal angle blackish ; the entire lower half of the disc with irregular 

 confluent blackish spots and patches, darker towards and at the apex of the 

 anterior margin ; below the apex of the cuneus a small triangular blackish 

 patch. Cell nerves pale green ; large cell nerve for about two-thirds its length 

 blackish ; lesser cell nerve hlach ; base and apex of the large cell more or less 

 and the lesser cell entirely blackish. Sternum — Prosternum on the sides 

 broadly black, xyphus green. Mesosternum black or deep pitchy-black. Meta- 

 sternum on the sides black. Legs greenish-white or yellow. Coxcc at the base 

 on the outside with a piceous spot. Thighs clothed with fine, short, depressed 

 pale hairs, intermixed with long, erect brown ones ; apex naiTowly pale ; 1st 

 pair marbled with black for more than one-third of their length, generally 

 leaving a narrow black ring before the apex, the colour carried along the 

 upper- and under-side, in a more or less interrupted line, nearly to the base j 

 2nd with a narrow black ring before the apex, the marbling not encircling the 

 limb generally, but interrupted on the inner and outer sides by the longitudinal 

 farrow, the colour carried in a more or less interrupted line along the under- 

 side nearly to the base ; 3rd with a broad, oblique pale ring, and between it 

 and the apex, next the under-side a round pale spot, the marbling carried 

 along the upper- and under-sides somewhat broadly for about three-quarters 

 of their length. TibicB, all the pairs with three black rings, and clothed with 

 long, erect, bro\\Ti hairs ; Ist pair, at the base on tlic inside with a small black 

 spot, a ring a little distance from the baae, a second in the middle, and a third 



