1922.] W. D. Funkhouser : Indian Membracidac. 329 



Technical description : — 



Head twice as wide as high, reddish-brown, nearly flat, coarse- 

 ly punctate with black punctures, sparingly pubescent with long 

 silvery hairs; base gradually arcuate; eyes large, prominent, 

 brown; ocelli large, conspicuous, opaque white, equidistant from 

 each other and from the eyes and situated about on a line drawn 

 through centres of eyes; inferior margins of genae rounded; cly- 

 peus longer than wide, depressed, projecting for more than half its 

 length below inferior margins of genae, very densely pilose, tip 

 rounded. 



Pronotum brown, coarsely punctate, densely pubescent, high- 

 ly elevated above head, swollen subglobose ; median carina nearly 

 obsolete ; metopidium higher than wide, a smooth irregular depres- 

 sion above each eye, convex in front, tectiform above as seen from 

 the front ; humeral angles large, prominent triangular, extending 

 outward farther than the eyes ; no suprahumerals ; scutellum en- 

 tirely exposed, wider than long, coarsely punctate, densely pubes- 

 cent, apical margin weakly notched ; posterior process short, 

 sinuate, sharp, arising from highest point of pronotum well above 

 the scutellum, not reaching internal angles of tegmina. 



Tegmina long, narrow, ferruginous-hyaline, sparingly pilose 

 both on veins and between veins ; apex clouded ; base narrowly 

 opaque, coriaceous, dark brown, punctate; veins heavy, promi- 

 nent, brown ; five apical and two discoid al cells. 



Undersurface of body dark brown and pubescent ; legs light 

 brown, the trochanters and femora marked with dark brown and 

 ferruginous, the tibiae lighter brown and the tarsi and claws 

 darker. 



Length from front of head to tips of tegmina 10 mm. ; width 

 between extremities of humeral angles 4 mm. ; height of prono- 

 tum above head 4 mm. 



Type. — Female. In collection of Zoological Survey of India. 



Locality. — Mungpoo, alt. ca. 3000 ft., Darjiling Dist., E. Hima- 

 layas, Oct. 11-31, 1917 (N. Annandale and F. H. Gravely). 



