CESTIUS. 



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with brown, the apical area pale ; head beneath ochraceou.^ 

 the autenual cavities piceous, the face with a dark central longi- 

 tudinal line and short dark transverse lateral striations on each 



Fig. 197. — Kutara hnuinci^cens. 



side ; body beneath and legs ochraceous ; tegmiua pale olivaceous- 

 brown, the veins piceous-brown and with piceous-brown maculate 

 markings in the apical and anteapical cells, apical margin infuscate; 

 posterior tibioe strealied and finely spotted with piceous-brown. 



Length 2 G^"" uiillim. 



Hah. Ceylon; Peradeniya, Kandy {Green). 



Genus CESTIUS, uov. 



Type, C versicolor, Dist. 



Distribution. Bengal. 



Vertex about three times as broad as long, transverse, mode- 

 rately globose, anteriorly rounded; eyes projecting beyond the 

 lateral margins of the pronotum, ocelli on anterior margin near 

 the eyes ; head beneath about as long as breadth between eyes, 

 face about as long as broad at base, lateral margins a little siimate 

 before ej^es, from insertion of antennae angularly narrowed to 

 clypeus which is about half as long as face, margins of cheeks 

 sinuately rounded, not angulate ; pronotuin transverse, nearly 

 twice as long as vertex, lateral margins rounded, posterior margin 

 truncate, convexly rounded between eyes, the disk convexly arched ; 

 scutellura broader than long ; legs moderately slender, posterior 

 tibiae strongly spinulose ; tegmina extending beyond the abdominal 

 apex, costal margin convexly rounded, four apical cells, one or 

 two (inconstant) transverse veins near base ; \^ings broad, 

 ample. 



