COTs^SIDIA. 



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apex of vertex of head (sometimes absent), a spot near each 

 anterior angle of pronotum, and basal area of scutellum black, or 

 blackish; body beneath and legs sanguineous, abdomen beneath 

 blackish, a fascia crossing face between eyes and the disk of 

 mesonotum black ; tegmina pale dull ochraceous, extreme base, 

 base of costal margin and the inner claval mai'gin pale sanguineous ; 

 head distinctly impressed before eyes ; pronotum thickly finely 

 punctate and transversely wrinkled, in the typical specimen dis- 

 tinctly centrally longitudinally impressed on the anterior area 

 (but this is not a constant character) ; face longer than broad, 

 distinctly laterally transversely striate and longitudinally centrally 

 carinate to a little beyond middle. 



Length inch tegm. 6 to 7 millim. 



Hah. Ceylon ; Diyatalawa, 4000 feet, Peradeuiya {T. Bainhricjrje 

 Fletcher). 



Genus CONSIDIA. 



Considia, Stdl, Ofr. Vet.-Akad. Fiirh. 1865, p. 152; Schmidt, Stett. 



Ent. Zeit. 71, ji. 324 (1910) ; Lallem. Gen. Insect. Fasc. 143, p. 82 



(1912). 

 Tettigoscarta, Bredd. Sue. Ent. Zurich, xvii, p. 59 (1902). 



Type, G. transversa., Walk, 



Distribution Burma ; Malayan Region. 



Head broader than long, rounded in front, the anterior marginal 

 area flattened, ocelli about as wide apart as from eyes ; face 

 globose, almost as broad as long ; pronotum about as broad as 

 length of pronotum and head together, anterior margin nearly 

 straight, lateral margins slightly roundly oblique to basal tegminal 

 anglp and then a little concavely oblique to basal angles of scu- 

 tellum, convex, somewhat depressed and flattened at lateral mar- 

 gins, centrally, longitudinally moderately carinate ; scutellum 

 about as long as broad, centrally, discally, roundly foveate ; 

 posterior tibife with a strong spine beyond middle ; tegmina 

 elongate, about three times as long as broad. 



3423. Considia nitidula, Bredd. Soe. Ent. Zurich, 1902. p. 59 ; Eist. 

 Bee. Lid. Mus. ii, p. 139 (1908); id. A. M. X. H. (8) xiv, 

 p. 333(1914). 

 Considia borealis, Schmidt, Arch./. Xaturr/. 70, p. 101 (1910). 



Head, pronotum, and scutellum black, apex of scutellum 

 greyish white ; face, pro- and mesosterna and abdomen beneath 

 bla( k ; legs ochraceous ; tegmina blackish or piceous, a spot at 

 base (sometimes absent), a discal spot near middle, a small spot 

 at claval apex, aud two spots, one marginal, on apical area, 

 greyish white ; pronotum very finely wrinkled and punctate ; 



