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2422. Tettigoniella kotagirieiisis, -^p- n- 



Head, pronotum and seutelUim pale stramineous, apical half of 

 vertex purplish-browa, rather more than basal half of pronotum 

 purplish-brown or testaceous ; vertex with two black spots on 

 anterior margin (sometimes obliterated) and two rather more 

 prominent basal spots of the same colour ; pronotum with a 

 transverse series of four black spots in the anterior pale color- 

 ation ; scutellura very pale oehraceous, with four fused black spots 



Fig. 132. — Tdtigonidla kotagiricnsis. 



on basal margin, of which the two central are smaller ; head 

 beneath testaceous, lateral mai-gius of the face (sometimes broken) 

 black ; clypeus black : body beneath and legs very pale oehraceous, 

 basal disk of abdomen black ; tegmina chocolate-brown, apical 

 area subhyaline, a short basal costal streak which is forked 

 posteriorly testaceous. 



Length excl. tegm. 9| millim. 



Hah. Kotagiri {Athinson Coll., Brit. Mus.). 



2423. Tettigoniella melichari, n. uom. 



Tetti?ouia nibromaculata, Melich. Horn. Faun. Ceylon, p. 156 

 (1903), nom. prajocc. 



Dark golden-yellow ; vertex with a large elongate spot before 

 each eye and a transverse spot at apex, sanguineous, ocelli black ; 

 pronotum with a transverse arcuate series of four sanguineous 

 spots ; scutellum with a small obscure basal sanguineous spot 

 which' is often absent ; face with the anterior margin narrowly 

 sano-uineous with a small central black spot, the latter sometimes 

 absent ; tegmina with the apical cells dull greyish, subhyaline ; 

 vertex large and prominent ; face laterally transversely striate ; 



