CLOriA. 



93 



"Length 4^ luillim." 

 Hah. Trichiuopoly {Mus. ffonr/rois). 



I have no knowledge of tliis species, and therefore reproduce 

 Dr. Melichar's description. 



Genus CLOVIA. 



Clovia, Stdl, Hem. Afr. iv, p. 7o (186G) ; id. Ofo. Vef.-Ak. Frirh. 

 1870, p. 724 ; Atkins. J. A. S. B. \\\, p. 20 (1885) ; Melich. Horn. 

 Faun. Ceylon, p. 135 (1903). 



Type, C. hi(/oti, Sign., a West-African species. 



Distribution. Ethiopian, Oriental, and Australasian "Regions. 



Head as broad as the pronotum, rounded anteriorly or sub- 

 angularly rounded, varying in length, Hat above, anterior margin 

 o£ the lobes o£ the vertex acute, not furrowed; face somewhat 

 convex ; clypeus moderately produced at apex, not extending 

 beyond apices of the anterior coxse ; ocelli variable in position ; 

 pronotum sexangular, with the anterior lateral margins usually 

 very short, parallel, or very slightly diverging backward ; scu- 

 tellum longer than broad ; tegmiua with the commissural margin 

 beyond apex of clavus subangulated or a little rounded ; posterior 

 tibiae bispinose. (Stdl.) 



ii242. Clovia conifer, Walk. (Ptyelus) Lid Horn, iii, p. 711 (1851) ; 



Atki7is. (Clovia) J. A. S. B. liv, p. 114 (1885). 

 Ptvelus simulaiis, Walk. Lid Horn, iii, p. 717 (1851). 

 Ptvelus freiuilatus, St°d, Of v. Vet.-Ak. Fork. 1854, p. 250 ; id. 



Fveq. Eur;. Resa. Ins. p. 286 (1859) ; id. Ofv. Vet.-Ak. Fork. 



1862, p. 493 ; id'. (Clovia) torn. cit. 1870, p. 726. 



Elavescent, testaceous or fuscous, subsericeous ; vertex and 

 pronotum in some specimens with distinct darker longitudinal 



Fig. 72. — Clovia conifer. 



lines, in others these are obsolete ; face castaneous with ochra- 

 ceous margins ; lateral areas of the sternum castaneous, with a 



