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CEKCOPID.'i:. 



Genus ABIDAMA, nov. 



Type, A. producia. Walk. 



Distribution. British India. 



Head somewhat longly and acutely produced in front of eyes 

 in d" , ill $ not produced, resembling Callitettix, where the Aertex 

 is transversely impressed, and between this impression and base 

 longitudinally i-idged ; face compressed, angulated anteriorly and 

 then strongly continued to clypeus, longitudinally centrally acutely 

 ridged ; rostrum short, not passing intermediate coxa3 ; anterior 

 femora distinctly longer than intermediate femora as in CaUitettix, 

 with which genus it otlier\^'ise agrees. 



2275. Abidama prodlicta, JValk. (8phenorhina) List Horn, iii, p. 696 

 (1851); St(fl (Calliteltix), 0>. Vet.-Ak. Fiirh. 1865, p. 153; 

 Atkins. J. A. S. B. hv, p. 18 (1885). 



Head, pronotum, and scutellum black, finely greyishly tomen- 

 tose; apex of scutellum and the tegmina rufo-testaceoLis, the 



apical margin of the latter rather 

 broadly black ; body beneath black, 

 metasternum and legs dark san- 

 guineous, apices of tibise and the 

 tarsi piceous ; wings dull hyaline 

 with the veins darker ; face laterally 

 almost longitudinally obliquely 

 striate. 



Length inch tegm., c? & 2 > 7 ^o 

 9 inillim. 



Hah. Nepal ; Nagarkote and Soon- 

 driial {Lid. Mus.). Assam ; Mar- 

 gherita (Doherty), Khasi Hills. 

 Bengal ; iShripur, Pusa (Lefro>f). 

 Burma ; Bhamo (Fea). 

 Stal redescribed the species under 

 Walker's name without any reference to the original description. 



Fio-. 87. — Alitdauia j-.rvdtu-ta, ^ . 



2270. Ahidama rufiila, sp. n. 



Head, projiotum, and scutellum black, greyishly tomentose ; 

 apex of scutellum, tegmina, body beneath and legs pale testaceous ; 

 head beneath, pro- and mesosterna black ; apices of tegmina pale 

 puiplish-red ; body above and tegmina thickly and finely punctate ; 

 lace anteriorly subacutely prominent ; tarsi more or less piceous. 



Length inch tegm. 8 inillim. 



Hah. Bengal; Shripur, Pusa {Lefroy). Burma; Bhamo (Co7Z. 

 List.). 



In some specimens recently sent to me by Mr. H. M. Lefroy, 

 the tegmina are more piceous than testaceous. 



