. Rhynchota ... its disk elongately flattened, very slightly foveate, itslateral areas obliquely transversely ridged ; eyes obliquely elon-gate; pronotum large, sexangular, convex, much broader thanlong, its anterior margin only vei-y slightly rounded * ; tegminabroad, ample; costal margin moderately convex, apex sub-angulate; clavus very large, longitudinally veined, apical areawith six somewhat foveate cells ; posterior tibite with one spine. * Delineated a little too straight by the artist iu the figure of the typicalspecies. APHROPIIORA. 99 2252. Thoodzata princeps, sp. n. Very pale tawny-
. Rhynchota ... its disk elongately flattened, very slightly foveate, itslateral areas obliquely transversely ridged ; eyes obliquely elon-gate; pronotum large, sexangular, convex, much broader thanlong, its anterior margin only vei-y slightly rounded * ; tegminabroad, ample; costal margin moderately convex, apex sub-angulate; clavus very large, longitudinally veined, apical areawith six somewhat foveate cells ; posterior tibite with one spine. * Delineated a little too straight by the artist iu the figure of the typicalspecies. APHROPIIORA. 99 2252. Thoodzata princeps, sp. n. Very pale tawny-brown ; vertex of head, pronotum, and scu-tellum almost eoncolorous; pronotum with a transverse series ofsmall sHghtly darker spots or impressions a little before anteriormargin ; head beneath with a sublateral fascia behind eyes,anterior lateral margins and transverse striations to face, andbroad lateral margins to clypeus piceous-brown ; prosternuin andabdomen beneath piceous-brown, the segmental margins pale. Fig. 76.—Thoochata princeps. ochraceous ; legs stramineous, the tarsal claws piceous ; abdomenabove piceous, with the basal area ochraceous; tegmina paletawny-brown, crossed near middle by a broad transverse fuscous-brown fascia inwardly margined by a creamy-white line ; beyondthis fascia the costal area is broadly creamy-white, containing fourtransverse linear brown spots ; the apical cellular areas arefuscous-brown with the veins pale reddish ; wings hyaline, theveins fuscous. Length excl. tegm. 51; exp. tegm. 14 millim. Hah. Teuasserim : Myitta {Dohertij). Genus APHROPHORA. Apbrophora, Germ. Mm/. Ent. iv, p. 48 (1831) ; Amy. S,- Serv. 5(53 (1843) ; Stdl, Hem. Aft: iv, p. 67 (1866) ; Fleb. Rev. (3) iii, p. 382 (1875) ; Atkins. J. A. S. B. liv, p. 19 (1885);Melich. Hovi. Faun. Ceylon, p. 131 (1903) ; Matsmn. Ayr I. Coll. ii, p. 26 (1903). Type, A. corticea. Germ., a Palsearctic species. Distribution. Probably almost universally distribu
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