. Rhynchota ... chraceous ; tegmina dark umber-brown, a transversefascia a little beyond base, and a broken narrow- fascia near apicalarea, stramineous; wings pale hyaline; posterior tibia? with astrong spine beyond middle. Length excl. tegm. 7 ; exp. tegm. 14 millim. Hah. N. India {Brit. Mus.). CALLITETTIX. 113 This may ultimately prove to be but another variety of G. con-tlgua ; however, I know only the unique type, and therefore haveno knowledge as to its constancy in specific character. b. Abdomen ahove blarJc. 2274. Callitettix versicolor, Fahr. (Cicada) Eut. Syst. iv, p. 50 (1794);id. Sy
. Rhynchota ... chraceous ; tegmina dark umber-brown, a transversefascia a little beyond base, and a broken narrow- fascia near apicalarea, stramineous; wings pale hyaline; posterior tibia? with astrong spine beyond middle. Length excl. tegm. 7 ; exp. tegm. 14 millim. Hah. N. India {Brit. Mus.). CALLITETTIX. 113 This may ultimately prove to be but another variety of G. con-tlgua ; however, I know only the unique type, and therefore haveno knowledge as to its constancy in specific character. b. Abdomen ahove blarJc. 2274. Callitettix versicolor, Fahr. (Cicada) Eut. Syst. iv, p. 50 (1794);id. Syst. Rhyng. p. 09 (1803): Stdl (Callitettix), Hem. Fabr. ii,p. li (1869); AtJcius. J. A. S. B. liv, p. 18 (1885).Var. Sphenorliiua approxiuiiins, Walk. List Horn. Siippl. p. 185(1858); Atkins. J. A. S. B. liv, p. 114 (1885). Shining black, finely fuscously pubescent; tegmina with a spotbefore the middle of the clavus, and a subtransverse spot betweenthe middle of upper claval margin and the costal margin, white ;. Fig. 86. — CalUtctiLv versicolor. two spots beyond the middle of tegmeu, the external large andtransverse, the internal small, and apex of clavus sanguineous ;wings dull hyaline, the veins and apical margin iniuscate. Var. a. Basal spots to tegmina luteous, not white. Var. b. Basal spots to tegmina obliterated, sanguineous apicalspots present. Var. c. Basal white spots to tegmina very small, only onesanguineous apical spot {apirroximans, AValk.). Var. d. All the spots present but luteous, none sanguineous. Length excl. tegm. 9 ; exp. tegm. 20 to 22 millim. Bed). Kashmir. Mnsioovw{). Assam; Sikhim ; Bom-bay {Lelth and Dixon). Tiiidharia. Burma ; Thayetmyo ( Waison),Bhamo, Shwegu Myo {Feci). Arakan {Ind. Mus.). — Peninsula; Perak. TOL. IT. 114 :. Genus ABIDAMA, nov. Type, A. producia. Walk. Distribution. British India. Head somewhat longly and acutely produced in front of eyesin d, ill $ not produced, resembling Callitettix, where the Ae
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