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apex; eyes dark castaneous or fuscous; pronotum with two longi- 

 tudinal darker tascite on each side ol' the central carinatioii, which 

 is ochraceous : scutellum with a pale central carination and a 

 somewhat raised spot at each basal angle ; body beneath and legs 

 pale ochraceous, the face with the apical area continued in oblique 

 fasciae on eacli side to base, piceous or black, and a dark fuscous 

 spot on each side near middle; tegmina with the veins prominent 

 and usually paler tlian the ground coloration ; vertex of head, 

 pronotum and scutellum finely punctate; other structural characters 

 as in generic diagnosis. 



Length incl. tegm. 8.j-!' millim. 



Hab. South India; Tvodaikanal {T. V. Campbell). 



Genus NIRVANA. (Vol. IV, p. 281.) 

 Nirvana greeni. (Vol. IV, p. 283.) 



Add: Hab. South India; Nandidrug, Chikkaballapura {T. V. 

 Campbell). 



Nirvana longixl'dinalis. (A'ol. IV, p. 283.) 



Add: Hab. Burma; Amherst Distr., Kawkareik fi^. //. Gravely). 



Nirvana sutdealis. (Vol. IV, p. 284.) 



Add: Hab. South India; Kodaikanal, and Niigiri Hills, Love- 

 dale {T. V. Campbell). E. Himalayas; Darjiling {Lynch). 



Nirvana pallida. (Vol. IV, p. 284.) 



Add: Hab. South India; fvodaikanal, Chikkaballapura {T. V. 

 CampjbeM). 



3537. Nirvana insiguis, sp. n. 



Pale ochraceous, disk of vertex and the tegmina paler in hue ; 

 tegmina Avith four transversely oblique black lines on apical third 

 of costal area and a discal black spot just before apex ; body 

 beneath and legs a little darker ochraceous than above ; vertex of 

 head about as long as pronotum and scutellum together, the lateral 

 margins ridged, the apex subacute; face centrally longitudinally 

 ridged, the lateral areas iinely obliquely striate. 



Length incl. tegm. 5 millim. 



Hab. Travancore. 



This species is more closely allied to N. Tcoreana, Matsum., from 

 Korea (Trans. Sapp. N. H. Soc. v. p. 171, Taf. 1, fig. 12, 1915). 



Genus OPHIUCHUS, no v. 



Type, 0. princejjs, Dist. 



Distribution. British India ; Madras Province. 

 Vertex of head s|)atulate, about as long as pronotum and 

 scutellum together, the lateral margins straight for a short 



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