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Al'PKN'DIX. — CICAUID.E. 



3156. Bijaurana typica, Dlst. A. M. N. H. (8) ix, p. 648 (lOli^). 



Body and legs dull ocliraeeous ; (x-elli red; eyes piceous ; 

 inesonotmn with more or less distinct indications oF four ob- 

 conical darker spots; tegmina and wings hyaline, the former 

 with the venation ocliraceous, the costal margin narrowly black, 

 tbe latter with tlie veins ocliraceous, the upper half of the 



Fig. ('). — Bijanraiia li/piea. 



abdominal area and the outer margin of same palely infuscate,. 

 oi)aque ; head (including eyes) a little narrower than base of 

 mesonotuin ; rostrum piceous, reaching the intermediate coxj© ; 

 face somewhat com|)ressed, longer than broad, with a distinct tine 

 central sulcus, the transverse striations somewhat obscure. 



L-i'ngth excl. tegm. 12| ; exp. te^^m. 29 millim. 



Hah. Nepal; Bijaura (Iml. t|- Brit. Muss.). 



3157. Bijaurana sita, Dist. A. 31. N. H. (8) ix, \^. 649 (1912). 



c? . Head almost totally black, ocelli red ; pronotum dull 

 ochraceous with some piceous suffusions ; mesonotum ochraceous, 

 with four large black obconical spots, the two central spots 

 shortest ; abdomen above ochraceous, a central fascia and mar- 

 ginal segmental spots pitchy brown ; body beneath and legs 

 ochraceous, space between face and eyes, rostrum, and a central 

 basal spot on abdomen piceous ; tegmina and wings hyaline, both 

 marked as in the preceding species {B. iypica) ; pronotum 

 centrally distinctly and somewhat broadly longitudinally sulcate, 

 by which character — apart from coloration — it principall}- ditt'ers 

 from B. tyinca. 



Length excl. tegm., (5" , 12 ; exp. tegm. 20 millim. 



Hid). India ; United Provinces {Brit. Mas.). 



A female specimen from Nepal, belonging to the Indian 

 Museum, may prove to be the other sex of this species. 



Genus MELAMPSALTA. (Vol. Ill, p. 171.) 



3 1 58. Melampsalta zeiiobia, Dist. A.M.y.lI. (8) ix, p. 649 (1912). 



Body above black, shortly greyishly pilose; lateral margins of 

 vertex, margins and a central f:iseia to pronotum, margins and 



