PARALIMNUS. — llAHALAJfA. 63 



aud legs p;ile ocliraceous ; teo-inina ochraceous, posterior costal 

 and apical areas pale and siibhj^aline, with the veins and three 

 costal spots brownish-ochraceous ; vertex somewhat acutely pro- 

 duced anteriorly ; scutelluin with a distinct transverse incision 

 near middle; pronotum with an anterior submarginal trans- 

 verse impression. 



Length inch teum. 5 niillim. 



Hah. Assam ; Mai-gherita {Dohertii). 



3586. Paralimnus lefroyi, sp. n. 



Head, pronotum and scutelluni dull ochraceous ; seutellum with 

 a black spot near each basal angle ; on antei'ior margin of vertex 

 two transverse black lines ; body beneath dull ochraceous, legs 

 pale ochraceous ; tegmina pale ochraceous, with scattered white 

 macular markings, the apical areas greyish-white where the veins 

 are dark, and there are three blackish costal spots ; posterior tarsi 

 black, with their bases and apices greyish-white ; vertex of head 

 subconically produced anteriorly ; pronotum with a transverse 

 impression before anterior margin continued on each side beneath 

 eyes ; seutellum transversely impressed near middle. 



Length inch tegm. 4| millim. 



Hah. Pusa (//. M. Lffroy). 



Genus NEOALITURUS, u. nom. 

 Aliturus, Dist. Fmm. Brit. Ind., Rhynch. iv, p. 398 (1908). 



Pairmaire having used this generic name in Coleoptera (1902), 

 I am compelled to rename my genus. 



Neoaliturus gardineri. 

 Aliturus gardineri, Dist. (vol. iv, p. 398, fig. 'IHI). 



Genus MAHALANA, uov. 



Type, M.f delis, Dist. 



Distribution. N.W. India. 



Vertex of head subangulate, central length about equal to space 

 between eyes ; face elongate, considerably longer than broad, 

 lateral margins behind eyes nearly straight, with a moderate 

 central convex ridge ; pronotum about t\\ ice as broad as long, 

 posterior margin straight, anterior margin subconvex ; seutellum 

 at base nearly twice as broad as long, the latei-al margins straight ; 

 tegmina elongate, about three times as long as broad, costal area 

 broad, transversely veined, ante-apical cell very long. 



This genus is allied to Scaphoideiis, Uhler, and Aconura, Leth. 



3587. Mahalana fidelis, sp. n. 



Vertex of head ochraceous, with a series of minute greyish- 

 white spots at basal margin and two small dark spots near apex ; 



