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Genus ACRASPIDEA, Brauer. 

 Acraspidea, Erauer, Denks. K. Ak. Wiss. 'NVieii, xliv, p. 75 (1882). 

 Genotype, Acrasjndea felderi, Brauer. 



" Body oval, with short weak legs ; antenuas longer than head, 

 filiform, pubescent, placed at middle of head in profile ; l^t 

 anteimal joint longer than the short 2nd ; 3rd long, narrow, with 

 four indistinct annulations, and with a terminal, shortly plumose, 

 long, filiform bristle ; scutelliim unarmed, parabolic, obliquely 

 upturned. Abdomen 5-segmented, round ; all tibite without 

 spurs. Only three endings to 4tli vein (1st, 2nd, and 4th) ; four 

 posterior cells. 



" Differs from Roscqyha by the unarmed scutellum and from Tinda 

 by the position of the antennae." * 



llaii'je. Ceylon. 



The genotype is the only known species. 



5. Acraspidea felderi, Brauer. 



Acraspidea felderi, Brauer, Denks. K. Ak. Wiss. AVieii, xliv, p. 76 

 (1882). 



"c?. //racZ black, with short black pubescence; face broad and 

 long, shining ; eyes contiguous above ; ocelli on a tubercle ; 1st 

 and 2nd antenual joints yellow, base of 3rd and the flagellum 

 brown, or entirely black, with conculorous short pubescence. 

 Thorax robust, inflated, dorsum roughened and punctate , w 

 triangular spot of shoi't ])ale yellow pubescence extending irom the 

 suture down to the whole breadth of the hind border. Abdomen 

 black, broader than thorax ; genitalia small but prominent, brown. 

 Legs yellow, femora with a brown ring ; metatarsi very long, 

 middle pair very thin but shorter than the tibise. Wings clear ; 

 costa brownish, submarginal cell distinctly smoke-grey neai-ly up 

 to the clear wing-tip, so that the marginal cell forms a u'hite spot 

 on the costa between the darker parts ; anal cell broad, closed at 

 some distance from the boi'der ; veins brown ; halteres pale 

 yellow. 



" Zmr//7i, 5-6 mm. 



" Rambodde, (^eylon (Ji^ietner)." 



Genus WALLACEA, DoJ. 



Wallacea, Doleschall, Nat. Tiid. Ned. Ind. (4) xvii, p. 82 (1858); 



de Meijere, Tijd. v. Ent. 1, p. 234 (1907). 

 Gahaza^ Walker, Proc. Linn. See. Lond. iii, p. 80 (1859). 



Genotipe, WcMacea arrjentea, Doil. ; by original designation. 



Bead about semicircular, as broad as thorax ; eyes bare, in d 

 contiguous for some distance ; frons broad in $ , sides parallel 



* A translation of Brauer's description. 



