DIOTTOPnAIlA. — DORTPIIORIXA. 25 



obscure, oblique aud tuberculous; mesonotuni tricarinate ; pos- 

 terioi* tibisB with four spines, one at base and apex, the other two 

 ■central ; tegmina a little more opaque tlian wings, the stigma 

 concolorous, 



Length excl. tegm. 9| ; exp. tegm. 20 millim. 



Hab. Karachi (C^immiiu/) ; Calcutta (fide Melichnr). — Japan 

 (fide Melichar). 



3108. Dictyophara coimbatorensis, Dist. A. M. N. II. (8) xiii, 

 p. 411 (1!»]4). 



Body and legs virescent; in one specimen the liead is wliolly 

 ochraeeous, in another the apex only is of that colour ; tegmina 

 and wings hyahne, the first without any macular markings ; 

 head about as long as pro- and inesonota together, slightly 

 narrowed and upturned at apex, the lateral margins strongly 

 ridged ; face tricarinate, the lateral carinations converging ante- 

 riorly and not extending posteriorly beyond the eyes ; clypeus 

 •centrally carinate ; pronotuui and mesonotum tricarinate, posterior 

 tibiiB with four spines. 



Length excl. tegm. 7-9; exp. tegm. 16-19 millim. 



Hah. South India; Coimhatove (Bainhrigge-FIetcher, Brit. Mus.). 



Closely allied to D. cummiaiji, Dist., but with the lateral 

 .protiotal carinations less oblique, the face more apically narrowed, 

 ■different colour, etc. 



Dictyophara pallida. (Vol. Ill, p. 243.) 



The late Mr. Kirkaldy (Ann. Soc. Eut. Belg. 1907, p. 123), 

 writing on this well-known enemy to the sugar-cane, stated that 

 the species thus enuu)erated by me as D. paUida, Don., was really 

 Pi/riUa aben-aiis, Kirby. This criticism is quite mistaken and 

 Avithout foundation, as 1 have siiown (Ann. Soc. Ent, Belg. 1907, 

 p. 220) at a length which need not be repeated here. Melichar 

 ■(iVIon. Dictyophoriden, 1912, p. 124) supports my nomenclature 

 and includes D. striata, Osh. (Faun. Hem. Turkest. i, 1879, p. 129), 

 which increases the distribution of the species. 



Add: Nab. Armenia, Turkestan. China; Sze-chuen. 



I have seen a varietal form taken by Mr. Campbell at Chikka- 

 ballapura, S. India, in which the abdomen has a distinct black 

 lonsiitiidinal fascia above. 



Genus DORYPHORINA. 



Dorvphorina, Mclich. Abhand. k.-k. Zool.-Bot. Ges. Wien, vii, 1, 

 p.' 99 (191:2). 



Type, D. stdli, Melich. 



Distribution. Burma, Malay Peninsula, Sumatra. 

 " Resembling the genus Lappida. The long cylindrical cephalic 

 process is sharp-edged, the surface hollowed, the upper side not 



