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9. Body yellowish- green : head very short; vertex extremely 

 short, apparently almost concealed by the pronotnm ; frons flat, a little 

 broader towards the clypeus, pale luteons and slightly rounded on each 

 side, margins reflexed, very slightly sinuate where it joins the clypeus 

 with a median ridge extending three-fourths of its length : clypeus 

 slightly rounded, obliquely streaked on both sides : mesonotum with 

 three green stripes of which the median follows a ridge : pectus luteous ; 

 abdomen obconical, crested, pale green and tinged with white above : 

 legs pale luteous : tegmina whitish green, dilated and tuberculated along 

 more than half the length of the hind border, truncated at the tips 

 which form right angles with the hind borders ; veins bright luteous 

 especially along the fore-border towards the base where the whole wing 

 has that hue unless closely inspected : wings white. Body long, 9^ ; 

 teg., 25 millims. 



Reported from India. 



Species of uncertain position. 



119. Flata coromandelica, Spinola. 



Pceciloptera coromandelica, Spin,, A. S. E. F. (1 ser,) viii, p. 440 (1839) ; Walker, 

 List Horn. B. M. ii, p. 440 (1851). 



S i 9 ' Head, dorsum of thorax, tegmina, grass-green, the rest inclu- 

 ding wings of a lighter green, veins deeper ; second joint of the antennse, 

 exterior border of the external flap, and of the entire discoidal space of the 

 tegmina orange : third joint of the antennse and its filament, spines on 

 tibiae and tarsi, black. 



Reported from Coromandel. 



120. Flata trtjncata, Linnaeus. 



Cicada truncata, Linn., Syst. Nat. ii, p. 704 (1758) ; Amgen. Acad, ri, p. 399 

 (1763). 



Fulgora truncata, Olivier, Eno. Meth. vi, p. 571 (1791) ; Fabricins, Syst. Ent. 

 p. 674 (1775) ; Spec. Ins. ii, p. 815 (1781) ; Mant. Ins. ii, p. 261 (1787) ; Ent. Syst. 

 iv, p. 4 (1794) 5 Syst. Rhyng., p. 4 (1803). 



Pceciloptera truncata, Westwood, Trans. Linn. Soo. xviii, p. 151 (1841) ; Walker, 

 List Horn. B. M. ii, p. 446 (1851). 



Whitish-green, wings deflexed, compressed, posteriorly truncated, 

 frons a little advanced, obtuse. {Linn.) 

 Reported from India, Java. 



121. Flata addita, Walker. 



Pceciloptera addita, Walker, List Horn. B. M. ii, p. 448 (1851). 

 Pceciloptera plana, Walker, List 1. c, p. 463 (1851). 

 Flata addita, Stal, Ofvers. K. V.-A. Forh. p. 489 (1862). 



