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tudiaal fasciae, widened anteriorly and augulated posteriorly, and 

 the incisures, piceous ; mesonotuin with a central longitudinal 

 fascia, on each side of which is a short oblique fascia, followed by 

 a large irregularly curved submarginal fascia, the anterior angles 

 of the cruciform elevation, and two small spots in front of same, 

 black ; abdomen with the segmental margins, the last segment and 

 anal appendage (both above and beneath), and an obscure marginal 

 series of spots on each side piceous or black ; body beneath and 

 legs very pale ochraceous ; an oblique fascia between face and 

 eyes, transverse fascite to face, under surface and spines to 

 anterior femora, sternal spots, a transverse central fascia at base 

 of abdomen, and abdominal tubercles black ; tegmina and wings 

 pale hyaline, the venation ochraceous and black ; tegmina with 

 costal membrane, and a spot at base of upper ulnar area, pale 

 ochraceous ; transverse veins at bases of second and third apical 

 areas infuscated, and a series of faint fuscous marginal spots at 

 apices of longitudinal veins to apical areas ; rostrum reaching 

 latitude of first pair of abdominal tubercles. 



Length excl. tegm., c? , 10 ; exp. tegm. 55 millim. 



Hah. Madras Province, Shivarai Hills {Morris). 



c. Opercida broad, transverse, nearer tof/eiJier than in preceding 

 species, inner margins oblique, apices subtruncately rounded. 



1579. Purana guttularis, Walk. (Cicada) List Horn. Sup2)l. p. 29 

 (1858) ; Stal (Leptopsaltria), Berl. mt. Zeif. x, p. 170 (1866) ; 

 Atki?is. J. A. S. Beng. Hii/p. 227 (1885); Bist. Man. Orient, 

 dead. p. 37, t. xii, f. 20, a, b (1889). 



Body above dull ochraceous ; head with anterior curved strise 

 to front, marginal and transverse lines at anterior angles of vertex, 

 margins of ocelli, and an oblique spot at inner margins of each 

 eye black ; pronotum with the anterior margin, two central 

 longitudinal lines united posteriorly and outwardly emitting an 

 angulated line, and the incisures black, the posterior margin 

 distinctly pale ochraceous ; mesonotum with a central line, the 

 margins of two anterior obconical spots, faint traces of a broken 

 lateral fascia on each side, and two small spots in front of cruci- 

 form elevation black ; abdominal segmental margins piceous or 

 black ; body beneath concolorous, the abdominal tubercles black ; 

 striatious to face, excluding lateral and apical areas, piceous ; 

 tegmina and wings hyaline, venation ochraceous or fuscous ; 

 tegmina with costal membrane and a spot at base of upper ulnar 

 area pale ochraceous ; transverse veins at bases of second and 

 third and sometimes fifth apical areas, and small spots at the 

 apices of longitudinal veins to apical areas, fuscous. 



Length excl. tegm., 6 & ? , 19 to 20 ; exp. tegm. 60 millim. 

 Hah. Burma {Brit. Mus.). — Nias Island {Modigliani). Borneo ; 

 Sarawak {CoU. Dist.). Philippines {Semper). 



