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tuberculate, testaceous beneath. Head and anteniic'e mostly black. 

 Jjegs with black bands. Hind femora of the usual structure ; 

 hind tibia) glaucous, black and testaceous towards the base. Fore 

 wings blacli, varied with testaceous. Hind wings grey. Leno-th 

 of the body 10 lines." 



The specimen bearing the name, and the ostensible type, is a 

 female, without antenna) and with only one perfect middle leg. 

 It is blackish above, with large depressed punctures ; the 

 fastigium triangularly expanded before the eye, and a median 

 carina traversing the head, pronotum, and abdomen. The head 

 below the eyes, a line behind them, and the greater part of the 

 face are testaceous, the latter blackish at the sides above and 

 below, and the spaces between the fore carina) shallow, and much 

 pitted ; palpi yellow. The under surface of the body and middle 

 legs are testaceous ; the back and sides of the abdomen are black, 

 but 3 or 4 of the sutures are yellowish, with irregular yellowish 

 markings on the sides between them ; the abdominal apjiendages 

 of the female are slightly hooked at the tips, but not dentated. 

 The tegmina ai-e brownish hyaline, somewhat expanded towards 

 the extremity, and extend nearly to the end of the first segment 

 of the abdomen. 



Length 2G mm.; tegmina, 4 nnn. 



Type (?) in the British Musevmi. 



It is very doubtful whether tiiis is the insect described by 

 AValker, but it appears to be distinct from others on our list. 



2()9. Mesambria geniculata, Stal. 



Mesuinbria (/enlculata, Stal Bib. Svensk. Akad. Handl. v (4) 

 1878, p. 7;J. 



Lighter or darker olive-browu. Antenna) long, more or less 

 black towards the extremity; fastigium of vertex short, tri- 

 angular, frontal ridge narrow, the sulure contracting below the 

 eye, and slightly widening again, the lateral carina) indistinct; 

 face and sides of head below the eyes yellowish, mouth-parts 

 varied with black, palpi white. Up])er surface of body granulose, 

 \\ ith a continuous median carina ; abdomen with a more or less 

 distinct black band on each side, sometimes spotted with yellow 

 above. Legs testaceous or reddish, the knees, base, and tips of 

 tibiae blackish ; hind femora in the female blackish on the outer 

 and inner areas ; hind tibiie with 6 or 7 large black-tipped spines. 

 Tegmina brown, linear, extending to the extremity of the first 

 segment of the abdomen. 



Length 18-29 mm. ; tegmina, 4-5 mm. 



Ceylon. 



T'ype in the (Stockholm Museum. 



