BALA LA. 



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excavate before the base of sfiitelliim, lateral margins oblique ; 

 scutelluui long, moderately raised, centrally strongly longitudinally 

 ridged, gradually narrowed to apex which is acute and reaches 

 apex of clavus ; femora moderately compressed and flattened ; 

 anterior tibia; strongly dilated ; posterior femora slightly curved, 

 strongly apically spined, posterior tibiae more definitely curved 

 and very strongly spinose ; tegmina valvate behind clavus the 

 apex of which is truncate, apical margin fi-om apex to end of 

 claAais very strongly defined with numerous short longitudinal 

 veins, four apical areas. 



2496, Balala fulviventris, JFalk. (Penthimia) List Horn, iii, p. 8 tl 



Piceous or brownish-piceous, the whole upper surface more or 

 less strongly ochraceously pilose ; on the pronotum longitudinally 

 pilose ; apex of scutellum black ; body beneath and legs piceous 



Fig. 159. — Balala fulviventris. 



or brownish-piceous, thickly shortly ochraceously pilose ; coxae 

 and abdomen beneath nearly wholly ochraceous ; tarsi ochraceous, 

 their apices piceous ; tegmina with an apical submarginal white 

 line : structural characters as in generic diagnosis. 



Length inch tegm. 11 to 13 millim. 



Hah. Assam ; Sadeya {Ind. Mus.). Nilgiri Hills {Hampson). 

 Burma; Karen Hills {Dohertij). — Borneo; M.aX^\\g {Heivitt). 



Walkers description is inadequate and founded on an uu- 

 localised specimen. This specimen was also rubbed, the pale 

 pilose covering being absent. 



