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posterior margin testaceous ; abdomen above piceous-brown, its 

 base, narrow segmental margins, and a broader apical fascia 

 ocbraceous ; face witb its anterior area ocbraceous, its posterior 

 area black, the latter with some yellowish spots ; clypeus black, 

 its central carination testaceous and with a yellow spot on each 

 side ; body beneath piceous, the meso- and metasterna ocbraceous ; 

 anterior and intermediate legs piceous spotted with ocbraceous, 

 posterior legs ocbraceous spotted with piceous ; tegmina piceous- 

 brown, oblique transverse fasciae to costal area, small spots on 

 posterior margin, an elongate and a smaller spot on apical margin, 

 and a discal spot before middle greyish-white ; wings fuliginous ; 

 anterior tibiae strongly foliaceously dilated. 



Length excl. tegua. 4; exp. tegm. 13 millim. 



Hah. Ceylon {Green). 



Genus PITAMBARA, uov. 



Type, P. radians, Ivirby. 



Distribution. Oriental Kegion. 



Head (including eyes) narrower than pronotum ; \ertex mode- 

 rately produced in front of eyes, moderately broad, its lateral 

 margins a little laminately elevated, its disk somewhat concave : 

 face much longer than broad, strongly angularly ampliated pos- 

 teriorly, its lateral margins (except on posterior area) laminately 

 dilated, and with two carinae on each of their under surfaces ; 

 clypeus tricarinate ; eyes beneath slightly sinuate ; legs of moderate 

 length, the anterior tibiae moderately, not fohaceously dilated, the 

 posterior tibiae somewhat dilated with a single spine, the posterior 

 tarsi with the basal joint incrassate ; pronotum and mesonotum 

 as in Elasmoscelis ; tegmina somewhat short and broad, costal 

 membrane broad (excluding base), distinctly obliquely transversely 

 veined. 



Distinguished from Elasmoscelis by the broader vertex to head, 

 the more angularly posteriorly ampliated face, the much broader 

 tegmina, and the moderately but not foliaceously dilated anterior 

 tibiae. 



1879. Pitambara radians, A7;% (Elasmoscelis ?\ j: ira?j. Soc.,Zool. 

 xxiv, p. 149, t. vi, f. 2 (1891) ; Melich. (Elasmoscelis) Horn. 

 Faun. Ceylon, p. 65, t. ii, f. 2, a (1903). 



Head with the vertex, face, and clypeus ocbraceous, eyes brown ; 

 pronotum and mesonotum piceous ; abdomen piceous, its basal 

 area more or less ocbraceous ; legs pale ocbraceous spotted with 

 piceous ; tegmina pale umber-brown on basal area, where it is 

 somewhat thickly marked with greyish-white transverse spots, 

 darker brown on upper apical area, costal and apical marginal 

 areas white, divided by transverse brown fasciae, the white inter- 

 spaces narrowest on basal costal area ; wings fuliginous ; anterior 



