218 i'ULGORIDiE. 



•\vings sanfTuineous. apical area broadly fuscous-brown, posterior 

 margin Aery pale fuscous ; prouotuni distinctly medially cariuate 

 on its anterior half ; rostrum reaching posterior coxae ; posterior 

 tibiae with four spines, the one nearest base very short. 



Length excl. tegm, 13 ; exp. tegni. 45 millim.* 



Hah. Assam. Darjiling (0. MiiUer, Coll. Dist.). 



1740. Polydictya krisna, Kirk. (Polydictya) J. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. 



xiv, 1902, p. 40, pi. A, f. 4 ; id. (Thaumastodictya) ibid. p. 307. 



Head, thorax above, face, clypeus, and rostrum ochraceous ; 

 body beneath and legs fuscous-brown ; abdomen above san- 

 guineous, its disk slightly fuscous ; the anal appendage ochraceous ; 

 tegmina with a little more than basal third stramineous much 

 spotted with black, remainder with the close reticulate venation 

 ochraceous, the reticulate areas piceous, beneath the tegmina are 

 a little brighter than above ; wings sanguineous, the apical area 

 (broadly) and the posterior margin pale fuscous with the venation 

 reddish-bro«n ; pronotum broadly medially ridged on its anterior 

 half ; rostrum reaching or passing middle of abdomen ; posterior 

 tibife with five spines t. 



Length excl. tegm. 13| ; exp. tegm. 38 millim. 



Hab. Ceylon ; Ivandy and Pundaluoya (Green). 



The above description and dimensions are taken from a cotype 

 kindly sent to me by Mr. Green ; the species seems very closely 

 allied to P. pantlierina, Gerst., which I have not seen. 



1741. Polydictya pantherina, Gersf.MT. J'er. T'or/w^^w;. xxvii, p. 26 



(1896). 



Testaceous, some\A-hat shining ; legs black ; tegmina with 

 multitudinous black spots, apex somewhat subinfuscate ; wings 

 posteriorly sanguineous, apically broadly fuscous. 



Nearer to P. tricolor, Westw., by the less dense reticulation at 

 base of tegmina, but widely removed by colour ; vertex with a flat 

 and uneven basal prominence ; face convex, A^ery shining, both 

 sides with a large thin excavated impression, clypeus only 

 deepened at base ; rostrum extending to base of posterior femora ; 

 head, pro- and mesonota light yellowish-brown, the former with a 

 continuous central keel ; metanotum sanguineous ; legs black, 

 intermediate tibiae before apices and posterior legs to a greater 

 extent rust-colour ; tegmina extended as in P. tricolor, nearly 

 parallel, at the apices obliquely truncated, above dull ochraceous, 



* These cliniensioiis are taken from two sjDecimeiis iu my own collection. 

 Westwood's figure represents a much larger specimen, and Atkinson gives the 

 dimensions, probably taken from this figure, as 16^ and 5(i-57 millim. 



i' Kirkaldy {»iipra) describes the number of these spines as " 6-7," but. in one 

 of his labelled cotypes, kindly sent me by Mr. Green, the number is distinctly 

 only five. It may also be mentioned that in Kirkaldy's figure the reticulate 

 venation to the wings has been omitted. 



