OniESTAL CICAJ)1]>.E. 91 



Tegmina pale liyaline, the venation ocbraceous, the costal membrane pale greenish, and the basal 

 third of the tegrainal area tinged with pale ocbraceous. Wings pale bj'aline, the venation ocbraceous, 

 and the base narrowly tinged with pale ocbraceous. 



The face is tumid, the lateral carina robust and slightly waved ; the rostrum extends to the 

 intermediate coxfe ; the opercula are somewhat short, with their lateral margins slightly concave and 

 their posterior margins oblique, they overlap at the centre, and their apices extend to about the second 

 abdominal segment. 



Long. excl. tegm. J , 40 millim. Exp. tegm. 118 millim. 



Hab. — China: Shantung (coll. Dist.). 



15. Cryptotympana insularis. (Tab. XI., fig. 2, a, h.) 



Cri/plutympanii insularis, Distant, Arm. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. v. vol. xx. p. 416 (1887). 



Head, pronotum, and mcsonotum dark olivaceous ; eyes ocbraceous, front with some basal Idack 

 carina; on each side of lateral margins ; ocelli shining ocbraceous. Pronotum with a pale central longitudinal 

 impression with some short transverse carinas at base, and with two oblique linear incisions on each lateral 

 half. Mesonotum with two dark central obconical spots starting from anterior margin, and on each side 

 of these spots is a smaller and more obscure spot ; a dark castaneous spot in front of the basal cruciform 

 elevation, which is pale ohvaceous. Abdomen above dark shining brownish olivaceous, the segments 

 more or less clothed with pale pilosity. Body beneath olivaceous; face with a central, longitudinal, 

 levigate, ocbraceous fascia, which is somewhat obliterated near centre ; rostrum pitchy and almost reaching 

 the posterior coxa3 ; abdomen beneath brownish ocbraceous ; legs with the anterior femora dark ochraeous, 

 their apices and the anterior tibiie and tarsi pitchy ; intermediate and posterior I'umora brownish, the 

 trochanters pitchy, the tibias ocbraceous, their apices and the tarsi pitchy, the posterior tarsi with a 

 central ocbraceous annulation. 



Tegmina pale hyaline, with a very slight fuscous tinge ; venation and the costal membrane ohvaceous, 

 the first more brownish on basal half, and the transverse veins at the apices of the two upper ulnar areas 

 infuscated. Wings resembling tegmina, both narrowly very dark fuscous at base. 



The body is short and broad, giving the species much the appearance of the American genus 

 Fidicina. The opercula slightly overlap at the centre, and are obtusely and broadly angulated at the 

 apices, which do not pass the broad basal segment of the abdomen. Anterior femora armed beneath with 

 two strong spines, one near base and one near apex. 



Long. excl. tegm. ^ , 36 millim. Exp. tegm. 115 millim. 



Hab. — Andaman Isles : Port Blair (Meldola — coll. Dist.). 



This is one of the insects seciuecl by my friend Prof. Meklohi during the •■British 

 Echpse Expedition," of v^^hich he was a member.* 



IG. Cryptotympana limborgi.f (Tab. X., fig. 7, a, h.) 



Cnjittoti/iiipann limbonii. Distant, Auu. & Mag. Nat. Hist. scr. G, vol. i. p. 296 (1888) ; Ann. Mus. Civ. Genoa, 



ser. 2a, vol. vi. p. 457 (1888). 

 Cryptotympana recta, Dist. (uec. Walk.), .J. A. S. Beng. vol. slviii. p. 40, 1. 11, fig. 4 (1879). 



^ . Body above olivaceous-brown. Head with the lateral striations to front and a transverse fascia 

 between the eyes black. Pronotum with two central, oblique, discal, black fasciae ; the posterior margin 



■ We have during the Inst few years had a very considerable accession to our knowledge of the Natural Histnry of these 

 islands. Comuienciiif; with Mankind, wo have the exhaustive and excellent ethnological treatises by Mr. E. H. Man (Journ. 

 Anthrop. Instit. vols. xi. p. 2(')8, xii. p. 09, and xiv. p. 253). The ornithology has been well studied, at and since the time of the 

 Hume expedition, and the Rhopalocera have been enumerated and described by Mr. Moore (Proc. Zool. Soc. 1877, p. 580), and 

 Messrs. Wood-Mason and de Niccvillo (J. A. S. Beng. vol. xlix. p. 223, and vol. 1. p. 243). 



t Named after its discoverer, Mr. Ossian Limborg, who made a collecting expedition in the district east of MouUuein, 

 Tenasscrim Provinces. 



