GOEDIA. 



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the subfam. Lophopina?. Melichar, however, places it in the 

 Tropiduchinse, which appears to me to be its better position. I 

 have, liowever, seen no example of the genus and therefore give 

 Melichar's figure and follow him in his divisional location. 



Subfamily ACHILINJ5. (Vol. Ill, p. 286.) 



Genus GORDIA. 

 Gordia, Melich. Horn. Faun. Ceylon, p. 43 (1903). 



Type, G. oculata, Melich. 



Distribution. Ceylon. 



Vertex moderately short and broad, tricarinate, the apex 

 truncate ; face distinctly longer than bx'oad, anteriorly truncate 

 and moderately produced above eyes, distinctly centrally carinate, 

 foveately depressed for about upper third, the lateral margins 

 carinate, slightly convex and narrowed towards clypeus, which is 

 short with its lateral margins carinate ; prouotum short, slightly 

 shorter than vertex, tricarinate, tlie posterior margin concavely 

 sinuate ; mesonotum a little longer than vertex aud prouotum 

 together, tricarinate ; abdomen short and robust ; legs of mode- 

 rate length ; tegmina about three times as long as broad, the 

 costal margin straight till about end of costal membrane and then 

 distinctly sinuate at commencement of apical area, posterior 

 margin strongly sinuate at about end of clavus, three longitudinal 

 veins very prominent on disk ; membrane shorter and broader 

 tlian tearmiua. 



32U7. Gordia oculata, MvUch. Hum. Faun. Ceylon, p. 43 (1003). 



Vertex, prouotum and mesonotum black, the carinations 

 ochraceous, posterior mesonotal angle ochraceous ; abdomen above 

 piceous or black, the basal area somewhat testaceous ; head 



Fig. 39. — Gordia oculata. 



beneath and sternum black; face with a small spot on each side 

 near anterior margin and a broad central fascia, apex of the 

 civpeus and the abdomen beneath pale ochraceous; legs 

 ocliraceous, more or less shaded with black ; tegmina fuscous 

 brown for about two-thirds their length, thickly speckled aud 

 veined with ochraceous, with a distinct piceous or black spot on 



