ZORAIDA. 65 



sternum, and legs ocbraceous ; abdomen beneath transversely 

 fuscous and ocbraceous ; tegmina fuliginous, with tbe veins 

 ferruginous, costal membrane with a distinct series of sordidly 

 greyish spots, some more indistinct spots of the same colour 

 on basal area, and three or four short greyish-white lines at 

 apex, beyond the apex of costal membrane three or four short, 

 transverse, feiTuginous, waved, linear spots, and the whole area 

 of the tegmen more or less obscurely mottled with greyish ; 

 wings fuliginous, the veins ferruginous ; vertex rather broader 

 than in most species of the genus and distinctly longitudinally 

 grooved ; second joint of antennae not reaching apex of head : 

 face rounded, narrow, not aiigularl}', laminately projecting ; 

 clypeus a little longer than face ; abdomen above with a strong 

 central longitudinal ridge ; seutellum centrally longitudinally 

 compressed. 



Length excl. tegm. 4-5 ; exp. tegm. 20-23 millim. 



Hab. Travancore ; Maddathoray and near Trivatidrum (Annan- 

 dale). 



Allied to P. svperha, Dist. 



Genus ZORAIDA. (Vol. III. p. 300.) 



3221. Zoraida fletcheri, n. nom. 



Zoraida variipennis, Dist. A. M. X. II. (8) viii, p. 640 (1011) 

 (nom. prfeocc). 



Body above shining fuscous brown ; pronotum pitchy black ; 

 abdomen somewhat largely spotted with ocbraceous ; second 

 joint of antennae ocbraceous, with its apex black ; body beneath 

 and legs pale bright ocbraceous ; tegmina hyaline, the veins 



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Fig. id. —Zornida Jlufcluri. 



more or less ferruginous, costal membrane at extreme base and 

 beyond middle to apex purplish red, with minute black spots, 

 basal area, an irregular transverse central fascia, and a transverse 

 fascia near apex dark fuliginous ; wings hyaline, with the veins 

 pale sanguineous ; second joint of antennae only a little shorter 

 than head and thorax together; vertex narrow, somewhat tri- 



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