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ochraceous at its medial concave sinuatioii ; body benealh, legs 

 and rostrum piceous-bro\An, tibiae darker above than beneatli ; 

 tegmina greyish-white, the claval area mottled witb brown and 



Fig. 51. — Ehliul vr/r/iis. 



black, basal area black divided from the clavus by a white line, 

 apical area mottled with black, where some of the veins are 

 riifescent ; ])ronotum finely punctate, its })osterior process more 

 strongly so and also centrally ridged and laterally carinate. 



Length 5 millim. 



I/ah. Burma {Br'U. Mus.). 



I only know this species by the unique type in the British 

 Museum. 



Genus GARGARA. 



Gar<^ava, Amy. S,- Serv. Hem. p. 537 (1843) ; St.al, Hem. Afr. iv, 

 ]). 98 (186(i"); id. Ofv. JW.-Al: F<irh. 18H9, p. i'83 ; Melich. Horn. 

 Faun. Ceylon, p. I:i2 (1903). 



]MjBrops, Buekt. Moiio(/r. Membvac. p. 257 (1903). 



Type, 0. r/eniski', Fabr., a Palsearctic species. 



Distribution. Palojarctie, Ethiopian, Oriental, Malayan, and some 

 portions of the Australasian llegion. 



This genus is allied to Tricentrus, Stal, from M'hich it principally 

 differs by the unarmed lateral angles of the pronotuni and by the 

 absence of spinules to the posterior trochanters. 



2190. Gargara piceola, Melich. Horn. Faun. Ceylo,,, p. 122 (1903). 



" Face and pronotum finely and thickly punctured, sparsely 

 covered with very short yellowish hairs ; middle keel on pronotum 

 very delicate and produced on posterior process, which is very 

 short, longly triangular, smooth or flattened and stretched out 

 strai<rht behind; covering the scutellum ; tegmina hyaline, strongly 

 wrinkled, punctured, pitchy-bro\\n, black at base, stroiigly and 

 coarsely punctured : veins dark brown, strongly and distinctly 

 punctured; wings clouded with hght brownish and with dark 

 veins ; pectus and abdomen dark broMii ; legs rusty brown, femora 

 black." (Mdichar.) 



" Length :} mihim." 



f/dh. Ceylon ; Peraden.iya (Jide MelicJtar). 



I have a single specimen sent to me by Mr. Green from Pera- 

 deniya which agrees fairly \A-ell ^ith the above description. 



