MELAMPSALTA. 



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pilose : head with the anterior margin, tlie ocelli, a central 

 linear longitudinal fascia (widened posteriorly) to pronotum, and 



the pronotal margins dull 

 ochraceous ; mesonotum with 

 two long- longitudinal discal 

 fasciae, the lateral margins, 

 and cruciform elevation (ex- 

 cluding centre) dull ochra- 

 ceous ; abdomen above casta- 

 neous-bro\^'n, greyishly pi- 

 lose, the posterior segmental 

 margins paler in hue, their 

 extreme edges ochraceous, 

 and with an obscure, central, 

 narrow, longitudinal black fascia ; body beneath and legs reddish- 

 ochraceous ; head beneath and discal area of face black ; tegmina 

 and Avings pale hyaline, their bases narro\A ly reddish-ochraceous, 

 venation more or less olivaceous ; rostrum reaching the inter- 

 mediate coxcB ; face broad and tumid. 



Length excl. tegin., $ , 15 to 18 ; exp. tegin. 38 to 45 millim. 

 Hah. Quetta {Colls. Athhis. ^- Dist.). 



Apart from its smaller size and different coloi'ation, this species 

 may be distinguished from M. mmiva by the much shorter upper 

 apical area to tegmina. 



McIanipsaUc confin uafa. 



1681. Melampsalta literata, Dist. (Cicadetta) A. M. N. H. (6) i, 

 p. 375 (1888) ; id. (Melampsalta) 3Ioh. Orient. Cicacl. p. 14o, 

 t. XV, f. 8, a, h {im-1). 



5 . Head black, with the lateral and anterior margins narrowly 

 ochraceous ; pronotum piceous or dull castaneous, the lateral and 

 posterior mai'gins narrowly ochraceous ; mesonotum ochraceous, 



with four obconical black spots (the 

 two innermost small and fused), 

 a large spot in front of cruciform 

 elevation and tlie centre of same 

 black ; abdomen above dull black, 

 the posterior segmental margins 

 narrowly and obscurely dull red- 

 dish ; body beneath ochraceous, 

 sternum much shaded with dull 

 black ; face black, with an anterior 

 triangular spot and the lateral margins ochraceous ; abdomen with 

 a central longitudinal series of black spots ; legs ochraceous, femora 

 and tibia; streaked with piceous ; tegmina and wings hyaline, the 

 venation olivaceous or fuscous ; rostrum not extending beyond 

 the intermediate coxa.^ 



Length excl. tegm., $ , 12; exp. tegra. 37 millim. 

 Bal>. Kashmir Valley, 6300 feet {Leech, Coll. Dist.). 



Fig. 70. — Mi'Iaiiipgalla liUruht. 



