486 Mr. W. L. Distant on 



posterior margins of pronotum paler. Head with two large 

 spots to front, and a spot on each lateral margin of vertex 

 castaneous, area of the ocelli black, with a small curved black 

 spot on each side of same ; pronotum with the fissures, a 

 central subbasal spot, extreme basal margin, and the 

 posterior lateral margins black ; mesonotum with four 

 obconical spots, the two central ones smallest, a central 

 arrow-shaped spot lunately widened at base, and two trans- 

 versely waved spots near posterior margin black or piceous, 

 at anterior margin between the central and lateral spots 

 a small ochraceous spot with black margins; abdomen above 

 castaneous ; body beneath and legs dull ochraceous, more or 

 less greyishly pilose ; tegmina brownish, opaque, the apical 

 area more or less hyaline, a pale spot in radial area, another 

 below it in fourth ulnar area, an irregular pale fascia crossing 

 first, second, and third ulnar areas, pale spots on each side 

 of the transverse veins at apices of ulnar areas, and pale 

 and brown spots at apices of veins to apical areas; wings 

 brownish ochraceous, darkening towards the hyaline outer 

 margin ; head (including eyes) only a little more than two- 

 thirds the w T idth of base of mesonotum ; pronotal lateral 

 margins angularly ampliated, the angular apices only about 

 reaching base of tegminal basal cells ; costal membrane of 

 tegmina prominently arched at base and moderately dilated, 

 a little broader than costal area ; face broad, moderately 

 tumid, profoundly longitudinally sulcate and laterally strongly 

 transversely striate; rostrum reaching base of abdomen; 

 tibiae and tarsi more or less castaneous, posterior tibise 

 strongly spinose ; opercula in male short, transversely oblique, 

 well separated internally, apical margins truncately rounded, 

 not passing base of abdomen. 



Long., excl. tegm., <$ 25 mm. ; exp. tegm. 70 mm. 



Ilab. N. Nigeria ; Zungeru and Kano {Dr. W. B. 

 Johnson, Brit. Mus.). 



Allied to P. neavei, Dist. 



Cry2>totympana exalbida. 



Cn/ptotympana exalbida, Dist. Mon. Orient. Cicad. p. 92, t. xiii. 

 f. 12,' «, b (1891) ; id. Faun. Brit. Ind., ltbynch. iii. p. 8G (1906). 



My knowledge of this species was confined to eight female 

 specimens derived from Sikhim and Nilgiri Hills. Mr. E. 

 E. Green has now presented us with a male specimen 

 from Ceylon, which enables the characters of that sex to be 

 described. 



$ . Opercula ochraceous, a little longer than broad, 

 centrally moderately overlapping, their apices extending to 

 posterior margin of the second abdominal segment, outer 



