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clypeus, linear stripes to rostrum, and apical spots to abdomen 

 beneath piceous ; tegmina and wiugs vitreous, tbe venation 

 fuscous ; tegmina with the stigma fuscous-brown ; head robust, 

 about as long as abdomen, the disk, lateral areas, and under 

 surface broadly longitudinally sulcate, the ridges very prominent 

 and six in number, the lateral ridges and those of the under 

 surface being close together, above with a short central carination 

 between eyes, and beneath with a central longitudinal carina 

 which is continued through clypeus ; apex of cephalic process or 

 face with a central ridge subacutely rounded above ; tegmina and 

 wings with transverse veins on about their apical thirds ; posterior 

 tibiae with five spines. 



Length ceph. process, angle from apex to eyes 4| ; eyes to apex 

 abdom. 9 ; exp. tegm. 22 to 24 millim. 



Hah. Sikhim {Brit. Mus.). Utakamand {Atkinson Coll.. Brit. 

 Mus.). Nilgiri Hills {Hampson). Kangra Valley {Dudgeon). 

 Tenasserim : Myitta {Doherty). 



In some (probably fresh) specimens the colour is more virescent 

 than tawny-brown, the thorax above reddish-ochraceous, with the 

 carina bright olivaceous-green ; the abdomen above is also some- 

 times quadraugularly palely tessellate. 



B. Posterior tibice tvith four spines. 

 a. Tegmina without dark fascial. 



1776. Dictyophara pallida, Bon. (Fulgora) Ins. Ind. t. viii, f. 2 



(ISOO); Westw. (Pseudaphana) Tr. Linn. Soc. xviii, p. 150 



(1841) ; Atkins. (Dictyophara) J. A. S. Bemj. Iv, p. 27 (1886). 

 Plata lyrata, Germ. Thoris Arch, ii, 2, p. 47 (1830) ; Burm. 



(Pseudopbana) Handh. Ent. ii, p. 160 (1835). 

 Fulffora graminea, Fabr. Syst. Rhyny. p. 4 (1803) ; Atkins. 



(Dictyophara) /. A. S. Beny. Iv, p. 27 (1886). 

 Dictyophora despecta, Walk. List Ho')n.ii,\>.-M4:{l%K>\) ; Atkins. 



(Dictyophara) J. A. S. Beny. Iv, p. 27 (188G). 

 Dictyophora albivitta, Walk. List Horn, ii, p. 319 (1851) ; Atkins. 



(Dictyophara?) J. A. S. Beny. Iv, p. 29 (1886) ; Melich. Horn. 



Faun. Ceylon, p. 22 (1903). 

 Dictvopliora leptorhina, Walk. List Horn, ii, p. 321 (1851) 



Atkins. (Dictyophara) J. A. S. Beny. Iv, p. 30 (1886). 

 Dictyophara percarinata, Kirby, J. Linn. Soc., Zool. xxiv, p. 13 



(1891) ; Melich. Horn. Faun. Ceylon, p. 24 (1903). 

 Dictyophara liastata, Melich. Horn. Faun. Ceylon, p. 25 (1903). 



This is a closely aUied species in colour and markings to D. 

 nilgiritnsis, Dist., but smaller, the cephalic process shorter, and 

 the posterior tibiae with only four spines. It is subject to the 

 .same amount of colour-variation, dependent on the specimens beiug 

 fresh or otherwise, as described in I), nilgiriensis. 



Length ceph. process, angle from apex to eyes 3 to 3| ; eyes to 

 apex abdom. Ik ; exp. tegm. 22 to 22| millim. 



Hah. 8ikhim ; Mungphu {Atkinson Coll., Brit. Mus.). N. 

 Bengal {Miss Campbell). Bombay {Leith). Nilgiri Hills {Harap- 

 son). Calcutta {Ind. Mus.). Ceylon {Green). Burma ; Thavetmyo 



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