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.TASSIDiE. 



2468. Mainda prseculta, sp. n. 



Vertex pale ochraeeous, \dth four black spots arranged in pairs, 

 two at base and two nearer apex ; anterior margin and base of face 

 as seen from above, both narrowly piceous ; face pale ochraeeous, 

 a piceous fascia on each side of central carination and a sublateral 

 fascia on each side of the same colour ; margins of the clypeus 

 piceous ; a black spot on the cheeks behind each eye ; pronotum 

 fuscous brown, the margins and a central line ochraeeous ; scu- 

 tellum pale ochraeeous, a subangulate spot near each basal angle, 



Fig. 144. — Mainda 'prcBCitlta. , 



a central line diverging posteriorly, and a minute subapical spot, 

 black or piceous ; tegmiua ochraeeous, thicJcly marked and mottled 

 with piceou^s (the figure shows these markings better than words 

 can describe them, but they consist principally of longitudinal 

 basal streaks, three transverse fascise, and a broad apical margin); 

 body beneath and legs ochraeeous, apices of posterior tibiae and 

 bases of posterior tarsi piceous. 



Length inch tegm. 8 millim. 



Hah. N.W.India; l\.u.md.o\\ {Annandale). 



Genus PISACHA, nov. 



Type, P. primitiva, Dist. 



Distribution. Burma, Tenasserim. 



Vertex of head about as long as space between eyes, anteriorly 

 narrowed, centrally broadly sulcate on basal half ; ocelli placed on 

 posterior disk, a little farther apart from each other than from 

 eyes ; face narrow, elongate, narrowed posteriorly, finely centrally 

 carinate, strongly transversely ridged on each side ; pronotum with 



