(32 membbacid.t:. 



Length S ; breadth lat. prouot. angl. 4 millim. 

 lIaJ>. 8ikhiin : Mungj)hu. 



This is the largest species of Gargara which has as yet been 

 found in British India, at least so far as my knowledge extends. 



i'194. Gargara apicata, Melich. Houi. Faun. Ceylon, p. .124: (1903). 



"A small species of short compressed form; face and pronotum 

 thickly and finely punctured, bUick, witli depressed yellowish-grey 

 hair, so that the upper surface appears greyish-yellow in colour ; 

 on pronotum tliere is a weak middle keel which is continued on 

 tlie short triangular posterior process ; tegmina thickly sprinkled 

 with rusty yellow, brownish at base, through the yellow hair of the 

 tegmina indistinct; apical area more hyaline, greyish- white, with a 

 more or less complete transverse band formed of black spots before 

 the apex, before the transverse band is a small black spot on costa ; 

 inside the rusty-brown basal area is generally a narrow transverse 

 line formed of white dots, which is usually interrupted at several 

 places ; underside black with sparingly-distributed greyish hairs ; 

 pectus more yellowly haired ; femora darl; brown ; apices of the 

 femora and tlie'tibia? and the tarsi rusty brown."' {Melichar.) 



I have a few specimens from Ceylon which generally agree with 

 this description, but there is usually a distinct transverse band of 

 small white spots crossing middle of tegmina, which are evidently 

 variable in markings. 



Length 3; breadth lat. prouot. angl. 2 millim. 



Hah. Ceylon ; Peradeniya {Green). 



2195. Gargara tumida, Melich. Horn. Faun. Ceylon, p. 123 (1903). 



Face, pronotum and body beneath piceous, very thickly, shortly, 

 finely, palely pilose ; sternum and basal halves of lateral abdominal 

 margins more or less cretaceously sericeous ; legs ochraceous, 

 shortly, thickly, palely i)Uose, coxse and femora (excluding apices) 

 piceous; tegmina subhyaline, the venation more or less fuscous, 

 apical margin broadly pale ochraceous, base piceous and punctate 

 followed by a transverse pale ochraceous fascia ; latei'al pronotal 

 angles prominent but not produced ; posterior process very short 

 and broad, with a subobsolete carinate line which is more obso- 

 letely continued on pronotum, the apex distinctly tricarinate and 

 not reaching apex of claval area ; tegmina with the veins on costal 

 area hnely palely pilose. 



Length 5g-6| ; breadth lat. pronot. angl. 3 millim. 



Hall. Ceylon; Kandy, Peradeniya, Maskeliya (6-'ree»); Puttalam 

 (Mus. Jlowjrois). 



219(5. Gargara ferrugata, Melich. Horn. Faun. Ceylon, p. 123 (1903). 



Eace, pronotum and legs uniformly pale brownish-ochraceous ; 

 sternum and abdomen beneath piceous; tegmina a little darker 

 brownish-ochraceous, with the apical margins paler ; pronotum 



