CUYPTOTYMl'AN.V. 3 



prominent ; opercula broad, not extending beyond base of 

 abdomen, their posterior margins broadly rounded, their inner 

 margins a little overlapping, their lateral mai-gins nearly straight; 

 rostrum slightly passing the intermediate coxtc, ochraceous, 

 centrally, longitudinally and apically black. 



Length excl. tegm., (J , 30 ; exp. tegm. !J7 millim. 



Hah. India ; Nilgiri Hills {H. L. Andrews, Brit. Mus.). 



Allied to Ji. (itni, Dist., from the Philippines. 



Genus CRYPTOTYMPANA. (Vol. Ill, p. SO.) 



3i;5S. Cryptotympana mandarina, Dist. Mon. Orient. Cicad. p. 8G, 



t. xi, f. 7, f/, h (IWtl). 

 Mdicina operculata, Carrcno [MS. ?) : Wallc. List Ilom. i, p. 90 

 (1850). 



6 • Body above black ; eyes fuscons : anal segnieut of the 

 abdomen with an odiraceous spot on each side; body beneath 

 and legs black ; a spot at anterior margin of face, two marginal 

 spots between face and eyes, lateral margins of face, femoral 

 streaks, posterior tibiae (excluding bases and apices), margins of 

 opercula, segmental margins (excluding disk), and apex of terminal 

 segments, dark ochraceoiis ; tegmina and wings liyaline, the 

 venation fuscous ; tegmina with the costal membrane castaneous, 

 its extreme costal edge and the post-costal area blackish, basal 

 cell black, about basal third of tegmina and the subcostal area 

 to apex pale castaneous ; wings with about basal half irregularly 

 very dark castaneous. The opercula extend to about half the 

 length of the abdomen, sliglitly overlap at basal margin, somewhat 

 concavely and obliquely sinuate at outer margins, and inwardly 

 beyond base widely divergent to apices, which are narrowly and 

 obtusely convex. 



Lengtli excl. tegm., d" , 40 ; exp. tegm. 115 millim. 



Hah. Tenasserim {Col. Bingham). — Tonkin {Mus. Paris); China ; 

 Hainan. 



CnYPXOTYMPAIfA EXALBIDA. (Vol. Ill, p. 86.) 



Cryptotymvaua exalbida, Dist. A. M. N. II. (S) x'u, p. 486 (1913). 



My previous knowledge of this species was confined to eight 

 female specimens derived from Sikkim and the Nilgiri Hills. 

 Mr. E. E. Green has since presented the British Museum with ti 

 male specimen from Ceylon, which enables tlie characters of that 

 sex to be described. 



d" . Opercula ochraceous, a little longer than broad, centrallv 

 moderately overlapping, their apices extending to posterior margin 

 of the second abdominal segment, outer margins nearly straight, 

 apices narrowed and obtusely rounded, inner margins oblique. 



Length excl. tegm. 38; exp. tegm. 100 millim. 



Add: Ilah. Ceylon; Oduchuddan (G'recji). 



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