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b. Tegmina with longitudinal fuscous fascice. 



1779.' Dictyopliara lineata, Don. (Fulgora) Ins. Ind. t. viii, f. 1 (1800) ; 

 TVestw. Ti: Linn. Soc. xviii, p. 147 (1841) ; Atkitis. (Dictyo- 

 pliara) J. A. 6'. Ben;/. Iv, p. 26 (1886). 

 Fulgora pallida, Grai/, Griff. An. King., Ins. W, p. 260, t. xc, f. 2 



(1832). 

 Var. bistriata, Melicli. Horn. Faun. Ceylon, p. 23 (1903). 



Body and legs ocbraceous ; head with the longitudinal ridges 

 either fuscous or spotted with that colour, its extreme apex 

 piceous, the ridges between the eyes green ; thorax above rather 

 reddisb-ocln-aceous ; pronotuin with the margins and three 



longitudinal carinas (the two outer- 

 most oblique) green; mesonotum with 

 three longitudinal green cariuse ; head 

 beneath with a central green carina 

 extending for more than half its 

 lenp;th from base, and its lateral 

 margins to a little beyond eyes of the 

 same colour ; a large basal spot to 

 clypeus, lateral areas of meso- and 

 metasterna, and lateral margins to 

 abdomen beneath black ; legs and 

 rostrum finely spotted with black ; apex of rostrum black and 

 about reaching posterior coxae ; tegmina and wings pale creamy 

 hyaline ; tegmina with two longitudinal fuscous fascise commencing 

 at a short distance from base, the uppermost submarginal and 

 extending to apex, where it is broadest, the second on inner 

 margin widening towards apex, the apices of both fasciae usually 

 united ; the cephalic process is shorter than the abdomen, broadly 

 sulcate above, beneath, and on lateral areas ; posterior tibia? with 

 four spines. 



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

 abdom. 6; exp. tegm. 19 millim. 



IJah. North Bengal and Mian-Mir {Brit. Mus.). Assam; 

 Sibsagar {Ind. Mus.). Bombay (Leith). Ceylon (Green). 



The var. bistriata, Melich., seems to differ only by the shorter 

 upper fascia to the tegmina. In his description of the posterior 

 tibiae, Melichar writes " mit 3 Dornen," but there is a fourth 

 basal spine. 



Fig. lUCi. 

 Blctgophara. lineata. 



Atkinson (J. A. S. Beng. Iv, p. 27, 1886) has included the D. 

 sinica. Walk., in his enumeration of the Indian species of 

 Bictgophara. This he has done on what he acknowledges to be a 

 doubtful locality, " Assam?" All the specimens I have seen are 

 from China, and the species itself may ultimately prove to be but 

 a local race of D. pallida, Don. 



