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several beyond these near the apex, and a large irregular band extending frt 
near the apex and along the dorsal margin, emitting three broad streaks, one 
which enters the apex, and the two others reach the dorsal margin ; beyond tl 
band, nearer the base, is a less distinct and somewhat quadrate spot on the dor 
margin, and there are also two small and distinct discal blackish spots, one tu 
the base, the other in the middle ; the whole wing is rather thickly sprinkled w 
pearly drops, being in reality portions of the membrane which have not acquii 
the yellow ground tint ; in the fuscous band these dots are more distinct, a 
several of them are there much larger, forming large spots ; neuration moderat 
open, the veins and veinlets yellow, with minute black points, from each of wh 
springs a short blackish hair : posterior wings hyaline, all the basal veins a 
veinlets, and also the gradate veinlets, black and suffused with blackish; i 
longitudinal veins between, and on each side of, the gradate series, whitish, vi 
blackish points. 
There is a specimen of this beautiful species in the British Museu 
and 1 have a long series before me, which I owe to the liberality 
Captain Lang, by whom they were collected at Masuri, in June. 
OsMTLUs PUBicosTA, Walker. 
Chrysopa puhicosta, Walk., Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond., n. s., vol. v, p. 1! 
0. alhidus. Caput thoraxque nigro-signati. Antennce flavo-alhk 
articvlis chtohis vel tribus hasalihus 2nceo-nigris. Palpi piceo-annnh 
Pedes flavo-albidi, tarsis testaceis, ungtdbus intus minute serratis. A Ice la 
ad apicem vix acutce, albo-hyalince : anticce area costali lata, ad basin J 
abrupte dilatata ; punctis nonnullis basin versus, duobus p>terostigniim 
alibus, strigaque transversa irregulari ante apiecm, nigro-fuscis ; ve 
venulisque albis, nigro minute punctatis, cum costd ciliis longis instruct 
posticoe punctis duobus pterostigmaticalibus nigro-fuscis. 
Long. carp. 4 — 4^" ; exp. 15 — 18'". Hah. India septentriom 
In Mus. Brit, et auctoris. 
Whitish, with a pale yellow tinge. Crown of head much inflated, ^ 
irregular blackish markings ; front with blackish dots, and blackish lines at bas( 
antennal sockets : palpi annulated with piceous : antennae yellowish white, 
two basal joints (and sometimes also the third) pitchy black. Prothorax rat 
short, slightly broader posteriorly ; above, with interrupted longitudinal blact 
lines, and clothed with sparse but long yellowish hairs : mesothorax large, mi 
inflated. Legs pale whitish yellow, and clothed with long concolorous hairs ; 
apex of the tarsi testaceous, claws testaceous, curved, internally at about 
middle with two or three small and indistinct teeth. 
Wings broad, sub-acute at the apex, whitish-hyaline with whitish veins i 
veinlets ; the costal margin and neuration longly ciliated : anterior wings with 
costal area very broad at the base, rather abruptly dilated (almost as in Ancylojite 
and Megalomus) ; markings few and blackish, consisting of a spot on each side 
the somewhat yellowish pterostigmatical region, the inner of which is the larj. 
