KRISXA. 



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distinct. In all the specimens I have seen the two black spots at 

 the apex of the vertex are always absent ; the insect is a more 



Fig. VJO.—Krisna utriata. 



slender one, and there are some differences in the venation of the 

 wings which may or may not be constant. I have figured Kirby's 

 type. 



Var. Base of pronotum and basal and inner areas of tegmina 

 testaceous. 



Length incl. tegm. 10 to 12 millim. 



Hab. Ceylon ; Kandy, Maskeliya, Pundaluoya ( Green), Pera- 

 deniya, Moruwale, Gamaduwa, Haputale, Keigalle (Jide Melichar). 



2547. Krisna sherwilli, sp. n. 



Vertex, pronotum and scutellum ochraceous ; abdomen above 

 testaceous-red ; body beneath and legs pale ochraceous ; tegmina 

 golden-yellow ; wings hyaline, slightly fuliginous ; vertex about 

 half as broad as breadth between eyes, finely transversely striate, 

 its central area somewhat foveately depressed, its apical margin a 

 little reflesed ; eyes more or less fuscous ; pronotum very distinctly 

 transversely striate, its anterior area somewhat greyishly tomen- 

 tose ; scutellum somewhat discally depressed and less ochraceous 

 and more testaceous than the pronotum, exhibiting an ochraceous 

 spot in each basal angle, arcuately transversely impressed near 

 middle, beyond which to apex it is distinctly transversely striate ; 

 anterior areas of the abdominal segments above paler and more 

 ochraceous in hue ; the ocelli on the margins of face and vertex 

 castaneous ; face laterally transversely striate, its anterior area 

 arcuately transversely striate ; posterior legs compressed, the 

 femora apically spinulose, the tibiae laterally longly spinulose. 



Length excl. tegm. $ 8 ; exp. tegm. 20 millim. 



Hah. Sylhet ; Chandkira (Sherwill). 



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