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hyaline, basal third semi-opaque, veius and costal membrane 

 brownish, the last with two blackish spots, basal cell brownish 

 with a darker spot, a curved fascia crossing near base, followed 

 by a more waved macular fascia, a dark and outwardly concave 

 macular fascia crossing beyond end of radial area, an oblique 

 fascia on the transverse veins at bases of apical areas extending 

 to half the breadth of tegmina, and a double series of small 

 obscure spots at apices of longitudinal veins to apical areas, dark 

 brownish ; wings ochraceous, margins broadly, especially at apex, 

 dark brownish, with a pale marginal cretaceous spot at apex and 

 centre of posterior margin. 



Length excl. tegm., c5" , 18 ; exp. tegm. 52 to 55 ; breadth between 

 pronotal angles 10 millini. 



Hah. Bombay Prov. ; Karwar {^Ind. Mus. and Coll. Dist.). 



1543. Platypleura sphinx. Walk. List Horn. \, p. 13 (1850) ; Atkins. 



J. A. H. Benq. liii. p. 213 (1885); Dht. (Poecilopsaltria) Mon. 

 Orient. Oica'd. p. 13, tab, viii, f. 16 a, b, c (1889). 



Body pale tawny-brown, shortly and palely pilose ; head with 

 two transveri5e brown fasciae ; mesonotura with four obconical 

 spots, the inner two very short, the outermost very long, a central 

 longitudinal spot, and two small spots in front of the cruciform 

 elevation, fuscous-brown ; tegmina hyaline, talc-like, basal area 

 pale tawny-brown, with the greater part of the radial area and 

 three discal spots hyaline, veins and costal membrane and area 

 pale tawny-brown, a broken oblique fascia at end of ulnar areas 

 and anteriorly continued to apex, and elongate spots at apices of 

 longitudinal veins to apical areas, pale tawny-brown ; wings pale 

 tawny-brown, the veins much paler, above basal half of anal area 

 and a broad central fasciate spot pale obscure stramineous, a creamy- 

 white spot on posterior and apical margins. 



Length excl. tegm., <5 , 16 ; exp. tegm. 46 ; breadth between 

 pronotal angles 8 millim. 



Hah. North Bengal (Camphell Sf WarivicTc, Brit. Mus.); Mhow 

 (ForsayetJi, Brit. Mus.). 



1544. Platypleura capitata, Oliv. (Cicada) Unc. Meth. v, p. 754. 34, 



tab. cxii, f. 10 (1790) ; Stdl (Poecilopsallria), Berl. ent. Zeit. x, 

 p. 169 (1866) ; Dist. Mon. Orient. Cicad. p. 18 (1889). 



Oxvpleura subrufa, Walk. Lid Horn, i, p. 25 (1850) ; Atkins. 

 (Platypleura) J. A. S. BeiKj. liii, p. 216 (1885); Dist. (Poeci- 

 lopsaltria) Mon. Orient. Cicad. p. 9, tab. i, f. 1 a, b (1889). 



Stoll, Ci(j. f. 103. 



Head and pronotum brownish-ochraceous ; head with base and 

 lateral margins of front, anterior margins of vertex, and transverse 

 fascia between eyes black ; pronotum with the posterior and lateral 

 margins stramineous, edges of lateral margins and a small obscure 

 central discal spot black ; mesonotum pale castaneous, with four 

 obconical spots (the two central shortest), a central elongate spot, 



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