220 



CATANTOPIN.i:. 



2i)4. Wacata ceylonica, .sp. iiov. 



Olive - brown, aiitenuse ji;reeinsli or 

 yellowish, transversely bauded with brown 

 in the female; body long, linely granu- 

 lated; behind the eye runs a black band 

 dotted with white, nearly to the ex- 

 tremity of the abdomen; legs green. 



Ceylon: Maha Illupulana, cJl. viii.liJlO, 

 Trincomali, ix. 1911. 



Tijpe in the British Museum. 



Fig. 123. 

 Wacttta ceylonica. 



Genus MESAMBRIA. 

 Mt'samhria, 8tal, Bih. Svensk. Akad. llandl. v (4), 1878, pp. 2S, 7± 

 Type, Mesambrla (jenicidafa, Stal. 



RaiKje. India, Ceylon, Celebes, Madagascar. 



Head as broad as the pronotum ; eyes very large and promi- 

 nent, frequently projecting beyond the level of the pronotum ; 

 fastigium smooth, scarcely closed at the extremity, and very 

 slightly carinated; antenna? filiform, sometimes slightly thickened 

 beyond the middle, rather longer than the head and pronotum ; 

 frontal ridge sulcated, slightly projecting between the antennae. 

 Pronotum rather longer than the head, generally more or less 

 rugose, the hinder sulcus placed much behind the middle, the 

 hind border truncated ; the middle carina extending over the 

 pronotum and abdomen, and sometimes over the liead, lateral 

 carina? obsolete, 'legmina rudimentary, lateral, as long as the first 

 segment of the abdomen, liijjd femora thickened, about as long 

 as the abdomen, hind tibite with G to S strong spines. 



Kcij to the Species. 



(4) Coloui" testaceous. 



(3) Abdomen with a continuous dark 



unspotted lateral baud nepalensis, \S'a]k., p. :2:24. 



(2) Abdomen with a dark lateral band 



bearing pale spots above f/eniculata, Stal, p. 223. 



(1) Colour dark brown. 



(6) Eyes pale yellow behind tarsalis, Walk., p. 222. 



(5) I'^yes of nearly uniform colour. 

 (10) A slender yellow line above the 



eye. _ 

 (9) A distinct yellow band below the 

 eyes, face above and below 

 blackish dubirr, Walk., p. 221. 



