TANQTNA. 



291 



1838. Magadha flavisigna, Walk. (Cixius) List Horn, ii, p. 348 

 (1851). 



Head and thorax above ocbraceous ; a large subquadrate discal 

 spot to mesonotum dark castaneous, this spot is more obscurely 

 extended on each side beyond the lateral carinae ; abdomen above 



Fig, 138. — Magadha flavisigna. 



and beneath castaneous ; sternum and legs ochraceous, face and 

 sternum suifused and legs aunnlated with browuish ; tegmiua dull 

 creamy, semi-opaque, much mottled and spotted with pale fuscous- 

 brown, the veins mostly minutely spotted with fuscous, those on 

 apical area stramineous and very distinct ; wings pale fuliginous. 



Length excl. tegm. 54 ; exp. tegm. 18 miUim. 



Hah. " North India "{Brit. 21us.). 



My knowledge of this species is Cunfined to the unique type. 



1830. Magadha nebulosa, sp. n. 



Body above and beneath piceous ; legs brownish, apices ol 

 femora and extreme bases of tibiae ochraceous ; teginina fuliginous, 

 opaque, with somewhat large fuscous spots on costal, apical, and 

 basal inner marginal areas, darkest to about two-thirds from base, 

 where the whole surface is minutely speckled with ochraceous, 

 the apical third a little paler, and the apical marginal veins pale 

 creamy-white and very distinct, the whole of the remaining vena- 

 tion thickly speckled with minute pale ochraceous spots ; wings 

 very pale fuliginous with the veins fuscous, and in some lights 

 exhibiting an opaline lustre ; face finely speckled with ochraceous ; 

 clypeus much suffused with ochraceous ; anterior femora with a 

 subapical ochraceous annulation. 



Length excl. tegm. 4 ; exp. tegm. 15 millim. 



Hah. Ceylon; Maskeliya ((rremj. 



Genus TANGINA. 

 Tangina, Melich. Horn. Faun. Ceylon, p. 44 (1903). 



Type, T. hipunctata, Melich. 



Distrihution. Ceylon. 



" Head (including eyes) only slightly narrower than prouotum, 

 vertex as long as broad, very slightly narrowed anteriorly, rounded 

 off at front margin, its sides ridged ; face one and a half times as 



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