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face excluding base (which is creamy -white) dark castaneous with 

 paler transverse striae, cheeks black, sometimes spotted with 

 ocbraceous; tegmiua fuscous-brown, with paler suffusions and 

 darker transverse and oblique black spots, principally in claval 

 and subclaval areas, as shown in figure ; legs pale ochraceous. 

 bases of femora castaneous ; structural characters as in generic 

 diagnosis. 



Length incl. tegm. 6-8 millim. 



Hob. Xilgiri Hills ; Ootacamund. 



Far. A single specimen sent home by Dr. T. V. Campbell from 

 Lovedale in the Nilgiris has a cruciform black central spot to 

 the vertex of the head. 



3548. Carvaka thoracica, sp. n. 



Closely allied to the preceding species, but vertex of head with 

 a large central black spot connected with the eyes by a transverse 

 black line on each side, a linear transverse spot near inner margin 

 of each eye ; fa'ce similar to that of type species, but the cheeks 

 with large ochraceous spots; pronotum dark grey, with two central, 

 longitudinal, dark linear spots; scutellum creamy- white, but the 

 basal area brownish-ochraceous with darker spots ; tegmina very 

 similar to those of preceding species ; body beneath and legs 

 ochraceous, anterior femora more or less brownish at base. 



Length incl. tegm. 7-8 millim. 



Hob. Nilgiri Hills ; Lovedale (T. V. Campbell). 



3549. Carvaka inodesta, sp. n. 



Vertex of head ochraceous, the anterior margin and a subapical 

 transverse line fuscous-brown ; eyes blackish ; pronotum dull pale 

 olivaceous brown ; scutellum dull ochraceous; face ochraceous; 

 body beneath and legs pale ochraceous ; tegmina olivaceous brown, 

 three darker spots on inner claval margin, posterior half of costal 

 area distinctly but irregularly paler; vertex of head with some 

 transverse furrows ; pronotum thickly, finely, transversely striate ; 

 scutellum distinctly transversely impressed, sometimes with a 

 distinct brownish spot in each basal angle ; face very finely trans- 

 versely striate. 



Length incl. tegm. 6|-7 millim. 



Nab. South India; Kodaikanal, and Xilgiri Hills (T. V. 

 Campbell). 



3550. Carvaka ochrophara, sp. n. 



Dark ochraceous ; vertex of head with three linear dark spots 

 at anterior margin (in some specimens these are practically absent) ; 

 scutellum with a darker spot in each basal angle ; a black transverse 

 line at anterior margin of face between the eyes ; the lateral 

 margins of the face usually distinctly darker in coloration, and 

 with a small black spot near the insertion of the antennae ; tegmina 



