PTTHAMU8, 26c5 



2506. Gurawa vexillum, sp. n. 



Dull ocbraceous ; vertex with a broad longitudinal fuscous 

 fascia containing darker dots, two fuscous spots on lateral margin, 

 one in front of e^'es, the other nearer apex, ocelli fuscous ; 

 pronotum with indistinct longitudinal shadings, a central pale 

 carinate line, and witli a series of transverse linear dark spots 

 before anterior margin ; scutellum with a piceous spot near each 

 basal angle ; mesosternum with piceous markings (indistinctly 

 seen on carded type) ; pronotum somewhat strongly transversely 

 wrinkled ; face with minute black spots, the basal margin black 

 and a black spot before each eye ; tegmina smooth with the veins 

 prominent. 



Length inch tegm. c^ 4 millim. 



Hab. Sikhim ; Mungphu (Atkinson, Coll. Disf.). 



1 only possess a single carded specimen of this species. 



Genus PYTHAMUS. 

 Pythfanns, Melic/i. Horn. Faun. Ceijhn. p. IGl (190;3). 



Type, P. dealbatus, Melich. 



Distribution. Ceylon. 



" Body very long ; vertex triangulai'ly produced, the sides of 

 the anterior margin convex and carinate, with a leaf-like projecting 

 middle carination ; face long and narrow, centrally carinate, the 

 carina at the tip below the front somewhat leaf-like and raised, at 

 the sides of the face distinct transverse furrows which extend to 

 fine ridges running below the margin of the face to its tip and 

 form w4th the facial border an acute triangle in which close 

 below the vertical margin lie the ocelli ; clypeus somewhat long, 

 triangular, with central longitudinal carinse, truncated above and 

 below ; eyes sessile ; antennsie long ; pronotum one-third shorter 

 than the vertex, before and behind almost straight, the sides 

 rounded ; scutellum triangular ; tegmina long, narrow, with three 

 very tender veins, in the apical area three terminal veins ; membrane 

 apparently wanting ; legs slender." {Melichar.) 



Melichar has included this genus in the Tettir/oniellince. I have 

 not seen a specimen, but am doubtful, according to my views, 

 \\-hether it should be placed in that subfamily. 



2507. Pythamus dealbatus, Melich. Mom. Faun. Ceylon, p. IGl, t. v, 

 f. Oa (1903). 



"Body above black, strongly shining; vertex between the eyes 

 coarsely transversely wrinkled, in the middle of the central 

 carination a rounded spot and in the nape a triangular longitudinal 

 spot pale yellowish ; antennae rusty yellow ; face black, rostrum 

 yolk-yellow ; pronotum and scutellum coarsely transversely 



