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Genus NEPHOTETTIX. 



Nephotettix, Matsum. Terme>>z. Fiizdck, xxv, i). 378 (1902) : Blelich. 

 Horn. Faun. Ceylon, p. 19i> (1903). 



Type, N. cincticeps, Matsum., from Japan. 



Distribution. Eastern Paloearctic, Ethiopian, Oriental. Malayan 

 and Australian Eegions. 



"Body narrow, compressed, vertex short, in front broadly 

 rounded, union of vertex to front rounded, a transverse furrovv 

 rather near front margin running from one eye to the other, 

 frontal margin rather upcurved, the disk of vertex arched ; ocelli 

 at union of vertex to front, not close to eyes and on the inside of 

 the suture of the face and cheeks ; face broad as long or shorter 

 than the width of the cheek-angles, flat, at the ocelli twice as broad 

 as at the clypens, margins of the cheeks flatly curved ; clypeus 

 extending beyond the margins of the clieeks, somewhat quadran- 

 gular, broadest at base ; pronotum longer than the medial length 

 of vertex, on posterior margin very flatly curved, at the sides 

 stx'ongly rounded ; tegmina at apices broadly rounded off, with 

 only one discal cell ; three middle cells, the first of which is small, 

 and four terminal cells, no transverse vein on clavus, membranal 

 appendix rather broad ; wings at apices narrowly rounded ; vena- 

 tion as in Thamnotettix." (Matsum ara.) 



261 G. Nephotettix bipunctatus, Fabr. (Cicada) Syst. Rhynfj. p. 78 

 (1803); Stal (Thamnotettix), Hem. Fabr. ii, p. 82 (1860): 

 Atkins. J. A. 8.B. liv, p. Ill (1885) ; Matsum. (Nephotettix) 

 Termesz. Fiizetek, xxv, p. 379 (1902). 



Yellowish-green, shining, smooth ; face (except the lateral 

 margins) and a spot on each side of clypeus black; tegmina with 

 a spot before the middle and the apical two-fifths black ; lateral 

 spots to the sternum and abdomen black. 



The above is a description of the typical male, but in some 

 specimens of tlie same sex the face is altogether ochraceous or 

 greeuish-ochraceous, with lateral transverse darker lines. The 

 female is usually without the discal black spot to the tegmina and 

 with the face as just described for the varietal male. 



Length inch tegm. 4 to 4| millim. 



Hah. Calcutta {Brit. Mus.). Pusa (Lefroy) ; Eanchi (Irvine) ; 

 Sara Ghat. 



Dr. A. G. Butler received one pound weight of these insects 

 from Calcutta as food for birds in his aviaries. 



Dr. Annandale informs me that " in Calcutta this species 

 appears in enormous swarms in the air at night about the end of 

 the rains (generally in October). Gas-lamps in the street have to 

 be protected against the 'green fly,' as it is called, to prevent 

 the light being put out by the numbers that dash into it. I have 



