CRTPTOFl^TA. 



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description. Melichar states that the type is in Signoret's 

 collection, now contained in the Vienna Museum, so that the 

 figure he gives {supra) may be accepted as finally settling the 

 question. 



Genus CRYPTOFLATA. 



Cryptoflata, Melich. Ann. Hofmus. Wten, xvii, p. 19 (1902). 



Type, 0. ttnijtunctata, Oliv., an Ethiopian species. 



Distribution. Oriental and Ethiopian Jiegions. 



Head (including eyes) narrower than pronotum ; vertex short, 

 broad, anteriorly a little angularly truncate, centrally and laterally 

 ridged ; face longer than broad, centrally ridged for about half its 

 length from base, lateral margins strongly ridged, con vexly narrowing 

 to clypeus, anterior margin of vertex a little prominent above the 

 facial base ; pronotum much longer than vertex, centrally pro- 

 minently ridged ; mesonotum somewhat long and faintly tri- 

 oarinate ; posterior tibiae bispinose ; tegmina nearly twice as broad 

 as long, costal margin arched at base, apical margin a little 

 roundly truncate, apex subangulate, costal membrane about or 

 nearly as wide as radial area, the first closely transversely veined, 

 the latter reticulately veined, first and second longitudinal veins 

 arising from a common origin at upper end of cell, the upper 

 bifurcating near middle, the lower one bifurcating much nearer 

 base, tlie whole area more or less transversely reticulate, the veins 

 somewhat regularly bifurcate at apical margin, forming a series of 

 longitudinal cellular areas, clavus strongly granulose : wings a 

 little broader than teirmina. 



2030. Cryptoflata guttularis, Wulh. (Nephesa) J. Linn. Soc, Zool. i, 

 p. 160 (1857) ; id. (Poecilopteva) List Horn. Suppl. p. Ill (1858) ; 

 Stxll (Flata), Ofr. Vet.-Ak. Fork. 1862, p. 490; Atkins. J. A. 8. 

 Beng. Iv, p. 75 (1886) ; Melich. (Cryptoflata) Ann. Hofmus. 

 Wien, p. 20, t. iii, f. 21 (1902). 



Body and legs pale ochraceous, more or less cretaceously 

 tomentose, especially on the abdomen above and the body beneath ; 



-Cryptoflata guttularis. 



tegmina opaque milky-white, sparsely ornamented with black spots, 

 the costal and apical margins obsoletely pale ochraceous ; wings 

 milky-Avhite ; head with the vertex medially and centrally strongly 



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