CAKISTIANUrS. 63- 



and irregulai-lv sized and shaped apical marginal spots, pale 

 brownish-ochraceoiis ; vertex slightly longer than broad, the 

 lateral margins raised and projecting at their apices ; face longer 

 tlian broad, widened towards clypeus which is more than half the 

 length of face ; mesonotum with the disk longitudinally raised, 

 flattened and tricarinate ; posterior tibiaj not spined ; face slightly 

 projecting before eyes. 



Length excl. tegni. 5 millim. 



Hah. Ceylon ; Xamunukuli (A'. E. Green). 



Genus CARISTIANUS, nov. 



Type, C. indicHs, Dist. 



Distribution. Ceylon, India. 



Head uarrower thau the prouotum, the vertex i)rojecting before 

 the eyes, moderately concave, centrally and laterally ridged, 

 apex subtruncate, a little emarginate ; face longer than broad, 

 narrowed anteriorly, broadened before clypeus, the lateral niargins 

 convex, with a strong central longitudinal ridge ; clypeus more than 

 half as long as face, the lateral margins carinate, centrally longi- 

 tudinally carinate ; pronotum shorter than vertex, angularly 

 emarginate at base, centrally carinate ; mesonotum considerably 

 longer than vertex and pronotum together, centrally tricarinate ; 

 legs slender, posterior tarsi with the basal joint elongate ; tegniina 

 about three times as long as breadth at base, distinctly ampliated 

 behind the clavus, costal membrane without transverse veins, 

 apical cells five or six in number ; wings shorter and considerably 

 broader thau tegiuina, two distinct transverse veins on apical 

 area. 



3218. Caristianus indicus, sp. n. 



Head and thorax above brownish ochraceous, lateral areas of 

 pro- and mesonota dark castaneous ; abdomen above fuscous 



Fisr. 48. — Caristiani/s indkui' 



brown, the segmental margins pale ochraceous ; head beneath 

 and sternum piceous, lateral margins of the face spotted with 



