CARVAKA. 



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f.ice excluding base (which is cveamy-white) dark castaneous with 

 paler transverse strife, cheeks black, sometimes spotted with 

 ocbraceous; tegmiua fuscous-brown, with paler suffusions and 

 darker transverse and oblique black spots, principally in claval 

 and subclaval areas, as shown in figure ; legs pale ocbraceous. 

 bases of femora castaneous ; structural characters as in generic 

 diagnosis. 



Length incl. tegni. 6-8 raillim. 



Hah. Xilgiri Hills ; Ooracamund. 



Var. A siiigle specimen sent home by Dr. T. V. Campbell from 

 Lovedale in the Xilgiris has a cruciform black central spot to 

 the vertex of the head. 



3548. Carvaka thoracica, sp. n. 



Closely allied to the preceding species, but vertex of head with 

 a large central black spot connected with the eyes by a transverse 

 black line on each side, a linear transverse spot near inner margin 

 of each eye ; face similar to tliat of type species, but the cheeks 

 with large ocbraceous spots; pronotum dark grey, with two central, 

 longitudinal, daric linear spots; scutellum creamy-white, but the 

 basal area brownish-ochraceous with darker spots ; tegmiua very 

 similar to those of preceding species ; body beneath and legs 

 ocbraceous, anterior femora more or less brownish at base. 



Length incl. tegm. 7-S millini. 



Hob. Nilgiri Hills ; Lovedale {T. V. Camphdl). 



3549. Carvaka modesta, sp. n. 



Vertex of head ocbraceous, the auterior margin and a subapical 

 transverse line fuscous-brown ; eyes blackish ; pronotum dull pale 

 olivaceous brown ; scutellum dull ocbraceous; face ocbraceous; 

 body beneath and legs pale ocbraceous ; tegmina olivaceous brown, 

 three darker spots on inner claval margin, posterior half of costal 

 area distinctly but irregularly paler; vertex of head with some 

 transverse furrows; pronotum thickly, fiuely, transversely striate ; 

 scutellum distinctly transversely iuipressed, sometimes with a 

 distinct brownish spot in each basal angle ; face very finely trans- 

 versely striate. 



Length incl. tegm. 6|-7 millim. 



Hah. South India; ~Kodaikanal, and Xilgiri Hills (T. V. 

 Cauipbell). 



3550. Carvaka ochropliara, sp. u. 



Dark ocbraceous ; vertex of head with three linear dark spots 

 at anterior margin (in some specimens these are practically absent) ; 

 scutellum with a darker spot in each basal angle ; a black transverse 

 line at anterior margin of face between the eyes ; the lateral 

 margins of the face usually distinctly darker in coloration, and 

 with a small black spot near the insertion of the antennge ; tegmina 



