. Rhynchota ... Length excl, tegm. $ 16 ; exp. tegm. 30 millim. Hah. Bombay {Dixon). Kangra Valley {Dudgeon). Mussoorie,Pusa (Z/g/y-o?/). Calcutta. Burma ; Pegu (CoZ^. Z>/s<.). To be separated from the following species, L. dilatata, Walk,by the narrower and longer vertex of head. I have not seen amale example. 2385. Ledra dilatata, Walk. List Rom. iii, p. 811 (1851); Stdl, Of Forh. 1802, p. 495; id. Hem. Fabr. n, p. 59 (1809) ;Athins. J. A. S. B. liv, p. 93 (1885).Ledra scutellata, Walk. List Horn, iii, p. 812 (1851).Ledra plana, Walk. torn. cit. Tawny-brown, ^^ith scattered d
. Rhynchota ... Length excl, tegm. $ 16 ; exp. tegm. 30 millim. Hah. Bombay {Dixon). Kangra Valley {Dudgeon). Mussoorie,Pusa (Z/g/y-o?/). Calcutta. Burma ; Pegu (CoZ^. Z>/s<.). To be separated from the following species, L. dilatata, Walk,by the narrower and longer vertex of head. I have not seen amale example. 2385. Ledra dilatata, Walk. List Rom. iii, p. 811 (1851); Stdl, Of Forh. 1802, p. 495; id. Hem. Fabr. n, p. 59 (1809) ;Athins. J. A. S. B. liv, p. 93 (1885).Ledra scutellata, Walk. List Horn, iii, p. 812 (1851).Ledra plana, Walk. torn. cit. Tawny-brown, ^^ith scattered darker granules ; body beneathand legs much paler ; head beneath in front of eyes greyish-brown,between eyes a piceous fascia much more distinct in $ than incJ; vertex in both sexes as long as breadth between eyes, moder-ately thickly granulate, the lateral margins obliquely straight fora little in front of eyes and then convexly subangularly roundedto apex, strongly centrally longitudinally ridged, with a more. Fig. -Ledra dilatata, cj & 5 • obscure short oblique ridge on each side; pronotum granulate,with five longitudinal ridges on posterior disk, the central ridgevery short; scutellum with two apical black ridges ; abdomenabove testaceous-red, the anal segment ochraceous ; tegmina palebrownish-ochraceous, the veins darker, a few^ small scatteredgranules on basal half; wings hyaline, the veins darker andsanguineous at base. Var. Tegmina (excluding costal apical area) fuscous brown. Length incl. tegm. S 1<J, $ 23; exp. tegm. 5 36 to 38 millim. Hah. Nilgiri Hills (Hampson). Burma ; Euby Mines (JDohert)/) ;Thayetmyo ( Watson). Tenasserim (Brit. litis.). The smaller specimen figured is the d type L. dilatata, Walk.,the larger figure is the § type L. scutellata, Walk. LBDRA. 175 2386. Ledia cingalensis, sp. n. Ledra dilatata, Melich. {nee Walk.) Horn. Faun. Ceylon, p. 139(1908). Allied to the preceding species, L. dilatata., Walk., but differsin the shoi-ter vertex whi
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