LYCORMA. 205 



aanulated with pale olivaceous ; posterior acetabulre greyisli ; 

 tegmina with about basal two-thirds reddish -ochraceous, irregularis 

 spotted with fuscous, about five discal spots being much the 

 largest, about apical third fuscous, with pale waved greenish 

 suffusious, the principal spots being one on anterior aud one 

 on posterior margin ; wiugs ochraceous, sanguineous at base and on 

 anal area, the apex black, posterior margin fuscous, some black 

 spots on basal half, a few minute white discal spots near middle, 

 and some bluish dots on the black apical area. 



Length excl. tegm. 18 to 21 ; exp. tegm. 59 to 62 millim. 



Hah. North-western Province; Garwhal {Coll. Dist.). Sylhet 

 {Brit. Mus.). Assam ; Margherita {Doherty). 



1717. Aphana dimidiata, Hope (Lvstia), Tr. Linn. Soc. xix, p. 13-3, 

 t. xii, f. 4 (1845) ; Stdl (Aphana), Stett. ent. Zeit. xxiv, p. 232 

 (1863) ; AtJdns. J. A. S. Beng. liv, p. 146 (1885). 



I only know this species by the description and figure given hy 

 Hope, the first of which is reproduced : — 



"Fuscous: head, thorax, and feet concolorous; basal half of 

 tegmina virescent, sprinkled witli numerous minute dull black 

 spots, apices sub-orange-hyaliue marked with cretaceous spots ; 

 basal half of wings greenish with the posterior part w^hitish, 

 spotted black, apices fuscous, irroi'ated wdth virescent spots." 



Length excl. tegm. 14^ ; exp. tegm. 46 millim. 



Hah. Sylhet. 



Genus LYCORMA. 



Lycorma, Stal, Stett. ent. Zeit. xxiv, p. 232 (1863) ; Atlim<^. J. A. S. 

 Beny. liv, p. 148 (1885). 



Type, L. impenalis. White. 



Distribution. Oi'ieutal Region and China. 



Head somewhat protuberant, the protuberance very short and 

 reflexed ; face furnished distinctly upward, and at the base more 

 narrowly, with two parallel obtuse ridges, sometimes obliterated 

 beneath the middle ; vertex truncated at base, posterior angles not 

 produced ; pronotum finely medially carinate ; anterior femora 

 not amplified at apices ; posterior tibiae armed with four or five 

 spines ; tegmina and wings generally as in the preceding genus 

 A^^Jiana. 



1718. Lycorma imperialis, White (Aphana), A. M. N. H. xvii, p. 330 

 (1846) ; Westro. (Aphtena) Cab. Or. Ent. p. 74, t. xxxvi, f. 4 

 (1848) ; Stdl (Lvcorma), Stett. ent. Zeit. xxiv, p. 232 (1863) ; 

 Atkins. J. A. S. Beng. liv, p. 148 (1885). 

 Vnr. placabilis, Walk. (Aphifina) List Horn. Suppl. p. 46 (1858). 



Head and thorax above olivaceous-ochraceous ; abdomen above 

 pieeous, the lateral and segmental margms more or less ochra- 

 ceous; head beneath, sternum, legs, and rostrum castaneous-browu; 



