APIIBOPHOEA. 



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sternum and abdomen broadly piceous ; legs annulated with iimber- 

 brovvn ; vertex of head about half the medial length of prouotum 



Length 8 inillim. 



Hab. Nilgiri Hills {Hampson, Coil. Disf.). 



2260. Aphrophora sigillifera, Walk. List Horn, iii, p. 700 (18ol). 



Aphrophora fticialis, Kirby, J.Linn. Sac, Zool. xxiv, p. 161 (1891) j 

 Melicli. Ho)n. Faun. Ceylon, p. 131 (1903). 



" Testaceous, but covered with large, deep, round, brown pits, 

 which give the whole insect a brown appearance ; head brown, 

 with the central carina and a spot on each side behind pale, and 

 some pale smooth spaces surrounded with brown in front of the 



Fig. 78. — Aphrophora sigillifera. 



pronotum, borders of scutellum also pale ; an indistinct pale spot 

 bordered \\\Vl\ darker, sometimes visible in the middle of the costa 

 of the tegmina ; face with deep brown punctures in transverse 

 rows, giving it the appearance of being transversely striated ; it is 

 more or less varied with black, sometimes entirely blackish, except 

 at the lower extremity, but more often with two large blackish 

 lateral spots (sometimes united) about the middle and smaller 

 ones below ; legs bro\A n, indistinctly banded with paler." {Kirhy.) 



I give Mr. Kirby's description of his A. facialis, which describes 

 the species. The pale costal spot to the tegmina is distiuct in 

 nearly all the specimens I have seen. 



Length 7 to Ih raillim. 



Hah. " North India *' {Brit. Mm.). Bombay {Dixon). Dacca 

 {Lefro)/). Ceylon ; Pundaluoya, Kandy {Green). Burma ; Karen 

 Hills '{Doherly). 



22G1. Aphrophora deserta, Melich. Horn. Faun. Ceylon, p. 132(1903). 



" Similar to the preceding species in size and shape, thickly 

 punctured, shining brown ; tip of front, anterior half of pronotum, 

 and an oblique trausverf^e fascia in middle of tegmina yellowish- 

 white ; four transverse impressions in transverse series on pro- 



