APHROPIIORA. 



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2252. Thoodzata princeps, sp. n. 



Very pale tawny-brown ; vertex of head, pronotum, and scu- 

 tellum almost eoncolorous ; pronotum with a transverse series of 

 small sHghtly darker spots or impressions a little before anterior 

 margin ; head beneath with a sublateral fascia behind eyes, 

 anterior lateral margins and transverse striations to face, and 

 broad lateral margins to clypeus piceous-brown ; prosternuin and 

 abdomen beneath piceous-brown, the segmental margins pale 



Fig. 76. — Thoochat a princeps. 



ochraceous ; legs stramineous, the tarsal claws piceous ; abdomen 

 above piceous, with the basal area ochraceous ; tegmina pale 

 tawny-brown, crossed near middle by a broad transverse fuscous- 

 brown fascia inwardly margined by a creamy-white line ; beyond 

 this fascia the costal area is broadly creamy-white, containing four 

 transverse linear brown spots ; the apical cellular areas are 

 fuscous-brown with the veins pale reddish ; wings hyaline, the 

 veins fuscous. 



Length excl. tegm. 51 ; exp. tegm. 14 millim. 



Hah. Teuasserim : Myitta {Dohertij). 



Genus APHROPHORA. 



Apbrophora, Germ. Mm/. Ent. iv, p. 48 (1831) ; Amy. S,- Serv. Hem. 

 p. 5(53 (1843) ; Stdl, Hem. Aft: iv, p. 67 (1866) ; Fleb. Rev. Mag. 

 Zool. (3) iii, p. 382 (1875) ; Atkins. J. A. S. B. liv, p. 19 (1885) ; 

 Melich. Hovi. Faun. Ceylon, p. 131 (1903) ; Matsmn. Journ. 

 Sapporo Ayr I. Coll. ii, p. 26 (1903). 



Type, A. corticea. Germ., a Palsearctic species. 



Distribution. Probably almost universally distributed in the 

 Eastern Hemisphere. 



Head almost ag broad as the pronotum ; vertex almost hori- 

 zontal and somewhat flattened ; anterior margin sometimes 

 rounded, generally very obtuselv angulated ; clypeus of variable 



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