PURANA. . 91 



the posterior margiu (widest at centre) piceous ; mesouotuiu with 

 two blackish marginally marked obconical spots at anterior margin, 

 and a greenish fascia near each lateral rimrgin ; abdomen with 

 the segmental margins piceous ; body beneath ochraceous, the 

 abdominal tubercles blackish ; legs mutilated in specimen de- 

 scribed ; tegmina and wings hyaline, the venation fuscous ; tegmina 

 with the costal membrane brownish-oehraceous, a small costal 

 fuscous and ochraceous spot at base of upper ulnar area, the 

 transverse veins at the bases of second, third, and fifth apical 

 areas infuscated, and a series of small fuscous marginal spots near 

 the apices of the longitudinal veins to apical areas ; rostrum with 

 its apex piceous and just passing the posterior coxse. 



Length excl. tegm., c5',2] ; exp. tegra. 58 millim. 



Hab. Andaman Islands ( Wuod-JIason). 



Genus PURANA. 

 Parana, Dist. A. M. N. H. (7) xv, p. GO (1905). 



Type, P. tigrina. Walk. 



Distrihitioii. Oriental and Malayan Regions. 



Head (including eyes) as wide as base of mesonotum and as 

 long as space between eyes ; face prominent and convex, its base 

 almost at right angles fo the anterior lateral angles of vertex ; 

 pronotum narrowed anteriorly, its lateral margins angiilated or 

 toothed ; mesonotum much longer than pronotum ; abdomen 

 moderately conical above, gradually attenuated posteriorly, in male 

 considerably longer than the space between the apex of head and 

 base of cruciform elevation, tubercles on the second and third 

 ventral segments large and prominent ; opercula small; tympanal 

 coverings in male broader at base than long ; rostrum reaching or 

 a little passing posterior coxie ; tegmina and wings hyaline. 



a. Opercula sinall, ivide apart, apices convcxly angiilated. 



1576. Purana tigrina, Walk. (Dundubia) List Horn, i, p. 69(1850); 

 Atkins. J. A. 8. Beny. liii, ^. 224 (1885) ; Bid. (Leptopsaltria) 

 Mon. Orient, dead. p. 35, t. x, f. 6, a, b (1889). 



Head and thorax above green ish-ochi'aceous ; abdomen brownish- 

 oehraceous ; head with the frontal margins, the area of the ocelli, 

 inner margins of eyes, and a spot on each lateral area of vertex 

 black ; pronotum with anterior margin, two central longitudinal 

 lines, and the outer incisures black ; mesonotum with a central 

 longitudinal fascia, followed on each side by a short curved fascia, 

 ti broken irregular fascia on each lateral area, and two small spots 

 in front of cruciform elevation black ; abdominal segmental 

 margins black : sternum, legs, and opercula greenish-ochraceous ; 

 abdomen beneath pale ochraceous, the tubercles, a spot near base, 



