238 FULGOMD.i:. 



sometimes lobate, eyes oblique ; pronotuin narrower than meso- 

 notum, subangularly produced anteriorly, centrally longitudinally 

 ridged, the lateral edges acute, slightly recurved, the posterior 

 angles obtusely angulai'ly produced ; mesonotum with three 

 discal longitudinal ridges ; abdomen about as long as space 

 between apices of vertex and mesonotal posterior angle ; ]30sterior 

 tibiae with six or seven spines ; face long, ovate, narrowed towards 

 clypeus and with a centi'al longitudinal ridge, gense posteriorly 

 very broad ; rostrum long, considerably passing ])osterior coxa? ; 

 tegmina and wings considerably longer than abdomen, the tirst 

 about one-third longer than the second ; teguiina with numerous 

 transverse veins on about apical tliii'd, clavus Avith a single 

 transverse vein between the intei'ior vein and the claval suture ; 

 some transverse veins on apical area, the anal area never 

 reticulate. 



A. Vertex' of head Jciu/er than hvoad. 



a. Vertex of head ceiitrallii lohately produced, its anterior awjles 



suhlohatelil rounded. 



b. Front of head a little and obliqueh/ upivardli/ produced, 

 its apex ohtuschj awjutate. 



17G9. Dichoptera hyalinata, Fabr. (Fulgora) Spec. Ins. ii, p. 31.) 

 (1781) ; Oliv. Enc. Meth. vi, p. 572 (1791) ; Don. Ins. Ind. t. vii, 

 f. .3 (1800); Germ. (Flata) May. Ent. iii, p. 190 (1818); 

 Burm. (Pseudophana) Handh. Erit. ii (1) p. 160 (1834) : Spin. 

 (Dichoptera) Anii. Sac. Ent. Fr. 1839, p. 289, t. xiii, f. 3; Atkins. 

 J. A. S. Beng. Iv, p. 23 (1880). 



Body and legs pale brownish-ochraceous, head and thorax above 

 and beneath with numerous bhick punctures, especially prominent 



on disk of mesonotum and 

 under surface of head ; 

 edges and ridges to head 

 and lateral edges to pro- 

 notura black ; anterior 

 longitudinal lines to vertex 

 of head, basal elongate 

 spots to mesonotum, cen- 

 tral and apical aunulations 

 to tibice (obscure on pos- 

 -Bk-hoptcra hyalinata. terior tibiiB), rostrum at 



apex and with ap(3X of pen- 

 ultimate joint piceous ; tegmina hyaline, venation fuscous irrorated 

 with ochraceous, and with a piceous transverse fascia at apices of 

 ulnar veins ; wings hyaline, with an apical piceous spot. In some 

 specimens the abdomen is marked with a double discal segmental 

 series of black spots, as in fig. 103 ; in other specimens these are 

 absent. 



Length excl. tegm. 19 to 20 ; exp. tegm. 50 millim. 

 Hah. Bengal. Bombay (Leith). Bangalore and Calcutta (Ind. 

 Mus.). Ceylon; Tangalla (Green). Andaman Islds. (Coll. Dist.). 



