250 



JASSIU.K. 



Hab. Assam; Margherita (Coll. Dist.X Ceylon; Kandy 

 ( Green). 



2495, Haranga decurtata, sp. u. 



Black ; eyes, lateral margins of prouotum and bases of lateral 

 niartrins to tegmina more or less ochraceous ; apices of tegmina 

 hyaline, where the veins are fuscous and before which there are 

 some indistinct ochraceous spots ; head beneath black ; sternum, 



Fig. 158. — Hara)ii/a dec/ciiafa. 



abdomen and legs brownish-ochraceous, abdomen with central 

 transverse piceous shadings and witli a narrow central longitudinal 

 pale line ; prouotum irregularly transversely wrinkled ; scutellum 

 a little globose and strongly wrinkled on basal half, apical half 

 smooth and narrow, not reaching the apex of clavus ; tegmina 

 thickly punctate. 



Length 8 millim. 



Ilab. Nilgiri Hills {Hampson). 



Genus BALALA, nov. 



Type, B. fnlviventns, Walk. 



Distribution. Oriental Region. 



Vertex of head short, deflected, anteriorly rounded ; ocelli on 

 disk between the eyes much nearer to eyes than to each other; 

 face somewhat perpendicularly deflected, moderately convex, 

 cheeks expanded ; rostrum short, just passing the anterior coxae ; 

 pronotum about three times the length of vertex, anterior margin 

 very slightly rounded, posterior margin strongly subangularly 



