. Rhynchota ... trong spinebeyond middle ; tegmina about two and a half times as long asbroad. Length excl. tegm. 7 ; exp. tegm. 17 to 18 millim. Hah. Bombay (Leith ^f Dixon). A small and very distinctly marked species. E. Tegmina blacl- or piceous, only more or less spotted near base. 2313. Cosmoscarta tricolor, St. Farq. ^- Serv. (Cercopis) Enc. , p. G04 (1825); But!. (Cosmoscarta) Cist. Ent. i, p. 245 (1874);Dist. J. A. S. B. xlviii (2) p. 40, t. xi, f. 5 (1879) ; A. S. B. liv, p. 6 (1885). Var. Head (including face) and body above testaceous-red;some small spots on each sid
. Rhynchota ... trong spinebeyond middle ; tegmina about two and a half times as long asbroad. Length excl. tegm. 7 ; exp. tegm. 17 to 18 millim. Hah. Bombay (Leith ^f Dixon). A small and very distinctly marked species. E. Tegmina blacl- or piceous, only more or less spotted near base. 2313. Cosmoscarta tricolor, St. Farq. ^- Serv. (Cercopis) Enc. , p. G04 (1825); But!. (Cosmoscarta) Cist. Ent. i, p. 245 (1874);Dist. J. A. S. B. xlviii (2) p. 40, t. xi, f. 5 (1879) ; A. S. B. liv, p. 6 (1885). Var. Head (including face) and body above testaceous-red;some small spots on each side of pronotum near anterior margin,lateral fasciae to the abdomen above and base of scutellumblack ; body beneatli black ; lateral margins of prosteruum, legsand margins of abdominal segments testaceous-red ; intermediateand posterior femora (excluding apices) black ; tegmina black,Avith base of clavus and four spots in irregular transverse series alittle beyond base, sanguineous ; wings fuliginous, extreme base. Fig. 105.— Cosmoscarta tricolor. var. sanguineous, and with two pale greyish longitudinal lines in radialarea; head transversely impressed in front of eyes; pronotumfinely wrinkled and punctate, longitudinally carinate on anteriorhalf, lateral margins broadly reflexed; face transversely striate onlateral areas, centrally, broadly, longitudinally smooth; meso-sternal tubercles broad, compressed, subcouically acute ; posteriortibiae with a strong spine beyond middle ; tegnnua rather morethan two and a half times as long as broad. Differs from the typical form of 0. tricolor in haviiag the basalspots to the tegmina sanguineous, rather than stramineous orocliraceous, and in the more testaceous colour of the pronotum. Length excl. tegm. 19 to 20 ; exp. tegm. 45 to 48 millim. COSMOSCABTA. 151 Hah. T(masserim ; Moolai {Limborfj), Myitta {Dohcrty).—►Sumatra ; Java ; Borneo. The specimens from Tenasserim represent the varietal form{supra); those from the Malayan Islands a
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