CENTKOMERIA. 



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ridges green ; abdomen green, its apex greenish-ochraceous ; face 

 green, the central ridge purplish ; body beneath and legs pale green 

 or greenish-ochraceous ; apices of the femora, apices of anterior 

 tibia?, the anterior tarsi, and apex of rostrum black or piceous ; 



tegmina and wings hyaline, 

 the venation brownish- 

 olivaceous ; tegmina with 

 the stigma fuscous ; cephalic 

 process recurved, ascending, 

 about as long as vertex, 

 its apex subacute ; rostrum 

 about reaching the apex of 

 the second abdominal seg- 

 ment; posterior tibiae with 

 Fig. WO. -- Cent romena .^peiUiwa, six spines, of which the three 



on basal half are smallest. 

 Length excl. tegm. 11 ; exp. tegm. 28 to 29 1 millim. 

 Bab. Tenasserim ; Myitta (Doherti/). — Malay Peninsula ; S.E. 

 Borneo. 



h. Cephalic process longer in front of eyes than length from 

 anterior margins of eyes to base of head. 



1785. Centromeria cephalica, sp. n. 



Body and legs ochraceous, in fresh specimens probably green ; 

 tegmina and wings with the venation dull ochraceous ; tegmina 

 with the stigma very pale ochraceous ; head prominently produced 

 in front and a little upwardly recurved, the marginal ridges very 

 prominent and with a central carination which extends only a 

 short distance from base ; longer in front of eyes than from 

 anterior margins of eyes to base ; anterior femora practically 

 without a discernible spine at apex ; posterior tibiae with five 

 spines, the basal spine small. 



Length excl. tegm. 9 ; exp. tegm. 23 millim. 



Hab. Nilgiri Hills (Hnmpson). 



b. Head more or less truncate in front, tvii.hout a cephalic proci^ss. 



1786. Centromeria viridistigma, Kirhy (Dictyophora), /. Linn. Soc, 

 Zoo/, xxiv, p. 135 (1891); Melich. (Dictyophara) Horn. Faun. 

 Ceylon, p. 23 (1903). 



Head above green, disk of vertex and apex purplish-red ; pro- 

 notum green, lateral margins and broad posterior marginal fasciae 

 (not meeting centrally) purplish-red ; mesonotum green, the 

 disk between the central carinae purplish-red ; abdomen above 

 green or in some specimens greenish-ochraceous ; face bright 

 green, the central ridge purplish-red ; body beneath greenish or 

 greenish-ochraceous ; lateral margins of stex'uum purplish-red; 

 legs testaceous, bases of femora more or less green ; tarsi piceous ; 



