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54. Xistra stylata, JJanc. 



Xistra stylata, Hancock, Trans. Eut. Soc. Lond. 1907, p. 231. 



Ferruginous. Head compresso-elevated, sinuated in profile ; 

 vertex concave in front, but the oblique lateral carinulse forming 

 an acute spine on each side about four-fifths of the height of the 

 eye ; hinder ocellus placed barely below the eyes, but antennae 

 inserted far below ; frontal costa not much raised between the 

 antennae, but rather widely sulcate and evenly divergent forwards to 

 the median ocellus. Pronotum granulated, extending behind beyond 

 the hind femora, raised, and with a slightly dentated crest between 

 the shoulders ; median carinae slightly marked, humeral angles 

 obtuse, the lateral carinae continued forward at the shoulders, 

 anterior lateral carinae parallel ; posterior angles of lateral lobes 

 subaugulate, slightly reflexed, subrotund-truncate. Tegmina 

 rather long, rounded at the tips, externally punctate, brown, with 

 pale tips ; wings extending to the tip of the pronotum. Four 

 front femora rather long, the carinae compressed and waved, upper 

 carina of the middle femora with an apical spine ; hind femora 

 rather long, with a short acute spine ; pulvilli of first joint of hind 

 txirsi of equal length. 



Length 16-2 mm. ; pronotum, 15 mm.; hind femur, 5*9 mm. 



Ceylon : Putlam. 



Type in the Oxford Museum. 



55. Xistra (?) dubia, Brnnn. 



Xistra (?) dubia, Brunuer, Ann. Mus. Geneva, xxxiii, 1803, p. 108, 

 pi. V, fig. 4-2. 



Vertex as broad as the eye, sloping, with a raised cariuula on 

 each side, rising just above the eye when viewed from the front ; 

 frontal costa produced between the antennae, not sinuated ; 

 antennie as long as the pronotum, inserted much before the eyes ; 

 ocelli placed in a line between the base of the eyes. Pronotum 

 produced beyond the hind femora, the front marginal carinae 

 parallel, the lateral lobes appressed, obliquely truncated, the 

 humeral sinus rectangular, the median carina continuous, biundu- 

 late at the shoulders in profile, the process with the lateral carinas 

 very slightly sinuated above the tegmina. Wing as long as the 

 pronotum. Four front femora undulated above and below ; hind 

 femora stout, not compressed ; first and third joints of hind tarsi 

 of equal length. 



LengtJi 7' o-lO- 5 mm.; pi'onotum, 9-2-1 0*5 mm.; hind femur, 

 5-5'5 mm. 



Burma : Karen Hills. 



