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CERCOPID.i;. 



antei'ior margins of eyes, the two basal joints cylindrical, the 

 third glohular, fixed in a hollow of the second joint and termi- 

 nating in a long bristle ; tegmina strongly couvexly arched, with 

 almost imperceptible veins ; posterior tibiae with two strong 

 spines. 



2251. Lepyronia picta, Melich. Horn. Faun. Ceylon, p. 132 (1903). 



Head, pronotum, and scutellum pale 

 yellowish ; vertex with four curved trans- 

 verse darlv fascise, two on anterior and two 

 near posterior margin ; face with the 

 marghis and a crescentic fascia at posterior 

 margin black ; pronotum with the lateral 

 margins and four longitudinal fasciae black, 

 the two central fasciaj coutinued on scu- 

 tellum ; legs piceous-brown, bases and 

 apices of femoi'a pale yellowish, posterior 

 tarsi of the latter colour with the claws 

 black ; tegmina purplish-black ; three spots 

 in clavus, some discal spots, a large costal 

 spot before middle, a large costal apical 

 spot, and the apical veins greyish-white, the 



apical spot divided by a transverse dark line and posteriorly 



margined with a similar colour. 

 Length 5 to 51- millim. 

 Hah. Ceylon {Leivis, Coll. Dist.). 



Fig. 75. 

 Lepyronia picta. 



Genus THOODZATA, nov. 



Type, T. princeps, Dist. 



Distribution. Tenasserim. 



Vertex of head large, a little broader than long, couvexly 

 rounded anteriorly, laterally and transversely incised at apex as 

 though for the reception of the face ; ocelli placed close together 

 on posterior disk, remote from eyes ; face elongate, moderately 

 globose, its disk elongately flattened, very slightly foveate, its 

 lateral areas obliquely transversely ridged ; eyes obliquely elon- 

 gate ; pronotum large, sexangular, convex, much broader than 

 long, its anterior margin only vei-y slightly rounded * ; tegmina 

 broad, ample ; costal margin moderately convex, apex sub- 

 angulate ; clavus very large, longitudinally veined, apical area 

 with six somewhat foveate cells ; posterior tibite with one spine. 



* Delineated a little too straight by the artist iu the figure of the typical 

 species. 



