TYPHLOCYUA. 



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Genus TYPHLOCYBA. 



Tvplilocyba, Germ. Silb. Rev. Ent. i. p. 180 (1833); Fieb. Rev. Maq. 

 Zool. (3) iii, p. 415, 1875 ; Echo. Tr. E. S. p. 94, 1888;l7'r/?i Duz. 

 Tr. Am. Ent. Soc. xxi, p. 811 (1894) ; Melich. Horn. Faun. Ceijlon, 

 p. 216 (1903) ; Oshan. Verz. Red. Hem. ii, Horn, ii, p. 208 (1907). 



Erythroneura, Fitch, Horn. N.Y. State Cab. p. 62 (1851). 



Empoa, Fitch, torn. cit. p. 63. 



Anomia, Fieh. Verh. z.-b. Ges. Wien, xvi, p. 509 (1866). 



Type, T. quercus, Fabr., a Palaeavctic species. 



Distribution. Probably almost universally distributed. 



" In the tegmina two simple apical veins, the two front sectors 

 connected before the end into a fork, the stalk of which runs 

 into the border of the tip of the tegmen, second sector just before 

 its fork \\ith the third simple sector and with the peripheral vein 

 running into the border of the tegmen, connected by a rectangular 

 or acute-angular (obhque) transverse vein." {Meliclmr.) 



2679. Typhlocyba orbata, Melich. Horn. Faun. Ceylon, p. 216 

 (1903). 



Vertex pale yellowish, eyes piceous-brown ; pronotum greyish, 



Fig. \LoZ.~Typlilocyba orbala. 



the anterior marginal area pale yellowish ; scutellum very pale 

 ochraceous, a large black spot near each basal angle ; body beneath 



TOL. IV. 2 E 



