. Rhynchota ... ramineous, sternum diseally spottedwith black ; abdomen mutilated in specimen described ; tegminapurplish-red, interior claval area and apex pale golden-yellow,each tegmen with four black spots, one at base and one beforemiddle of clavus, the outer two situate one before and the otherbeyond middle of disk; vertex distinctly transversely foveate. Var. Tegmina wholly purplish-red, the internal claval areaconcolorous. Length inch tegm. 9 millim. Hah. Assam (Coll Dist.). Burma ; Euby Mines (Doherty). 205 2422. Tettigoniella kotagirieiisis, -^p- n- Head, pronotum and
. Rhynchota ... ramineous, sternum diseally spottedwith black ; abdomen mutilated in specimen described ; tegminapurplish-red, interior claval area and apex pale golden-yellow,each tegmen with four black spots, one at base and one beforemiddle of clavus, the outer two situate one before and the otherbeyond middle of disk; vertex distinctly transversely foveate. Var. Tegmina wholly purplish-red, the internal claval areaconcolorous. Length inch tegm. 9 millim. Hah. Assam (Coll Dist.). Burma ; Euby Mines (Doherty). 205 2422. Tettigoniella kotagirieiisis, -^p- n- Head, pronotum and seutelUim pale stramineous, apical half ofvertex purplish-browa, rather more than basal half of pronotumpurplish-brown or testaceous ; vertex with two black spots onanterior margin (sometimes obliterated) and two rather moreprominent basal spots of the same colour; pronotum with atransverse series of four black spots in the anterior pale color-ation ; scutellura very pale oehraceous, with four fused black spots. Fig. 132.— Tdtigonidla kotagiricnsis. on basal margin, of which the two central are smaller ; headbeneath testaceous, lateral mai-gius of the face (sometimes broken)black ; clypeus black : body beneath and legs very pale oehraceous,basal disk of abdomen black; tegmina chocolate-brown, apicalarea subhyaline, a short basal costal streak which is forkedposteriorly testaceous. Length excl. tegm. 9| millim. Hah. Kotagiri {Athinson Coll., Brit. Mus.). 2423. Tettigoniella melichari, n. uom. Tetti?ouia nibromaculata, Melich. Horn. Faun. Ceylon, p. 156(1903), nom. prajocc. Dark golden-yellow ; vertex with a large elongate spot beforeeach eye and a transverse spot at apex, sanguineous, ocelli black ;pronotum with a transverse arcuate series of four sanguineousspots; scutellum with a small obscure basal sanguineous spotwhich is often absent; face with the anterior margin narrowlysano-uineous with a small central black spot, the latter sometimesabsent; tegmina with the apical ce
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