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Show 1878.] MR. A. G BUTLER ON A N E W PHYLLOPTERA. 649 marking pale castaneous ; meso- and metathorax glassy greyish, with two or three opaque whitish spots; abdomen sordid testaceous, sides of the venter whitish ; pectus and posterior coxae whitish ; anterior femora with the upper or interior surface castaneous at the proximal end, otherwise greyish, spotted with cream-colour, with two small tuberculose castaneous dots and a short longitudinal black dash, three black denticles along the supero-interior margin, inferior or exterior surface deeply grooved, paler, the distal half sordid whitish, with an irregular longitudinal brown dash; tibiae with the proximal half whitish, expanded, compressed, and marked on each side by two deep pyriform impressed spots, distal half cylindrical, castaneous in the centre and black at the extremities, interior margin with three fine spinules; tarsi black, the terminal joint PROC. ZOOL. Soc-1878, No. XLII. 42 |