TAPOOkSA. 



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ochr.iceoLis ; teginiiia creamy-white, with waved irregular ochra- 

 ceous markings, tlie.se principally consist of some obliquely trans- 

 verse lines ill costal area, a subtriangular fascia near base continued 



Fig. 58. — Chaprina nigromaciilala. 



from about end of clavus to the submarginal area, where it more 

 or less encloses some pale spots, at the apex three distinct black 

 spots ; wings pale creamy-white, the veins pale fuscous. 



Length excl. tegm. 34 ; exp. tegm. 12 milliin. 



Hah. Bengal ; Cliapra {Macl-mzie), Pusa (found on grass). 



3234. Chaprina vittata, Dist. A. M. N. H. (8) viii, p. tU-') (1911 ). 



Body and legs stramineous ; vertex and pronotum greyish 

 white ; tegmina creamy-white, with irregular ochraceous mark- 

 ings, these are maculate and consist of an elongate spot occupying 

 nearly basal half of clavus, another at and rising above claval 

 apex, two in radial area (one at base, the other at apex), one 

 at end of cell beyond radial area, two, almost united, beneath 

 the base of this cell, and some marginal irregular spots of the 

 same colour, a few small dark spots on disk, and at the apex two 

 short dark longitudinal vitta?, with a small dark spot above and 

 below them ; wings pale creamy-white. 



Length excl. tegm. 3; exp. tegm. 10-11 millim. 



Hah. Bengal; C\ii\\n-i\ {Mackenzie). Ceylon; Hakgala (Crj^en). 



Genus TAPOOSA. 

 Tapoosa, Dist. A. 31. N. H. (S) viii, p. 640 (1011). 



Type, T. maskelii/o', Dist. 



Distribntion . Ceylon . 



Yextex of head projecting beyond the eyes, with a short acute 

 spine on each side at apex, recurved, narrow , the latei-al margins 

 ridged, angularly widened between the eyes ; face long, narrou', 

 behind the eyes widened outwardly and then inwardlv to cly])eus, 

 whicli is very short ; antenna3 inserted beneath the eves, second 



