276 JASsiD.B. 



as pronotum and scutellum together, somewhat broadly rounded 

 anteriorly ; pronotum rugosely wrinkled on anterior area, finely 

 closely transversely striate on posterior area ; face broad, mode- 

 rately globose, obliquely striate on its lateral areas ; postei'ior 

 tibiae long, spinulose. 



Length excl. tegm. § 10, exp. tegm. 14 millim. 



Hah. Bengal ; Pusa, Parulia {Lefroy). 



2518. Hecalus paykuUi, Stdl (Petal ocephala), Of v. Vet.-Ak. Fork. 

 p. 252 (1854) ; id. (Hecalus) Ann. Soc. Ent. Ft: 1864, p. 65 ; 

 Siffn. torn. cit. 1879, p. 270, t. vii, f. 26 ; Atkins. J. A. S. B. liv, 

 p. 103(1885); Melich. (Parabolocratus) Wien ent. Zeit. xxiv, 

 p. 300 (1905). 



" Sordid whitish-yellow, smooth, shining, clouded with brown 

 on the vertex, the length of the median line, and transversely on 

 the pronotum, the tegmina and the veins of the same colour but 

 with a brown line on each side ; head defined on the margin only, 

 one and a half times longer than the pronotum, as long as breadth 

 between the eyes, augulaidy rounded, the sides almost parallel 

 above the eyes, then forming an angle at the tip, two excavations 

 on the vertex on each side ; face convex with a foliaceous border 

 anteriorly, grooved on the sides, border concave above the elypeus 

 which is broader at the base than at the apex but showing its greater 

 breadth in the middle, carinate medially ; rostrum very short ; 

 gense with the tip oblique from the elypeus to the eye forming a 

 very acute angle, concave, sinuous towaixls the elypeus and then 

 emarginate, concave near the eye ; pronotum a little more than 

 twice as broad as long, finely transversely striated on the pos- 

 terior half and with several less marked impressions anteriorly ; 

 tegmina opaque with four discoidal areas of which two are ante- 

 apical, five apical areas and three in the marginal space, a black dot 

 at the tip of the claval angle ; tegmina hyaline with the third 

 sector reunited at the internal branch of the bifurcation of the 

 second sector, then bifurcate and forming a long angular cell ; 

 pectus and abdomen yellow, the latter a little deeper towards the 

 base of the dorsal segments ; the S has the last segment of the 

 abdomen hardly longer than the preceding, apical margin straight, 

 a very small genital appendage ; genital plates very narrow at the 

 tip, almost as long as the hypopygium and pubescent on the sides, 

 the hypopygium a little broader and pubescent, the anal tube 

 surrounded by it and very little extending beyond it ; the $ has 

 the last segment twice as long as the preceding, convex at the 

 superior margin, angular in the middle and weakly sinuated on 

 each side, the genital appendages or valvules are more than twice 

 as long as the preceding and the oviduct extends beyond them by 

 about one-third." (Sir/noret.) 



Length, d 5 ; $ 6 millim. (Signoret). 



