VULTUROUS. — -TBAIGUMA. 27 



3528. Vulturnus speciosus, Dist. A. M. N. H. (8) x, p. 445 (1912). 



Vertex ochraceous ; a black siilnnarginal apical line not reaching 

 eyes, and with three testaceous discal spots, the central one trans- 

 verse, the other two shorter and obhque ; eyes black ; pronotum 

 ochraceous or very pale castaneous, thickly blackly reticulate, the 

 posterior margin and a central transverse fascia greyish white; 

 scutellum piceous, with four greyish-white spots, two before apex 

 and two near basal margin ; body beneath (including face) and legs 

 black: basal margin of head beneaih containing a few minute 

 dark spots and anterior and intermediate tibiae and tarsi ochra- 

 ceous ; tegmina ochraceous, finely, thickly, bl;ickly reticulate, a 

 small black patch in clavus containing about three white spots, 

 some white spots on claval suture, a small white spot on disk of 

 tegmen, three whitish spots on costal margin, and a small cluster 

 of subapical white spots; vertex slightly longer and a little more 

 narrowed anteriorly than in V. nrnatus, with a central dark incised 

 line extending from base about halfway to apex. 



Length inch tegm. 3| miliim. 



ffab. Ceylon; J^evadeiuy a (Green). 



Genus VANQAMA. (Vol. IV, p. 260.) 



VaXGAMA STEISEOSAURA. (Vol. IV, p. 260.) 



Add: Hah. jN". India; Dehra Dun (.4. D. Imms — on grass). 

 E. Himalayas; Darjiling Distr., Ghumti (F. H. Gravehj). 



Genus TRAIGUMA. (Vol. IV, p. 261.) 



Teaigttma iS^AsiJTA. (Vol. IV, p. 261, fig. 168.) 



Dr. T. V. Campbell has forwarded a long series of specimens 

 collected on the jSTilgiri Hills which show a great variety in 

 coloration beyond that of the seven typical examples received from 

 the same region as originally described. Some of these newly 

 acquired specimens conform to the pale coloration of the type ; 

 others are very much darker in hue, with the whole upper surface 

 more or less suffused with piceous or even black ; even more 

 variable is the colour of the legs in these later specimens, some 

 conform to the typical specimens, others have the intermediate 

 and posterior femora black with their apices ochraceons, and with 

 the apices of the tibiae and tarsi also black. 



3529. Traiguma verticalis, sp. n. 



Head, pi-onotum, scutellum, body beneath and legs very pale 

 tawny bi'own, abdomen above bright ochraceous, with its lateral 

 marginal area pale tawny brown ; tegmina pale tawny broA\'n with 

 darker mottlings, the apical margin distinctly darker and more 

 piceous; posterior femora with the apices black. 



Var. Body and legs piceous or dark piceous ; intermediate and 

 posterior tarsi greyish, with the apices of the joints pale piceous. 



