ZORAIDOIDES. 



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margins prominently ridged, their apices subacute ; eyes large, 

 obliquely directed along tlie lateral margins of the pronotum ; 

 face long, narrow, tlie lateral margins strongly ridged and slightly 

 undulate, divergent before the clypeus, which is tricarinate and 

 only slightly shorter than the face ; antennae with the second joint 

 long, longer than the head and pronotum together; pronotum 

 short, centrally tricarinate, the lateral areas extending backwardly 

 and obliquely over the lateral margins of the mesonotum, its 

 margins ridged ; mesonotum obscurely tricarinate ; abdomen short 

 and robust ; legs slender, posterior tibiae with a distinct spine ; 

 tegmina elongate, more than three times as long as broad, their 

 apices subtruncate, five costal areas, four central basal areas, a 

 series of twelve areas from apex to posterior inner margin, and 

 two central subapical areas (the outermost small) beneath the fifth 

 costal area; wings very short, somewhat imperfect in the unique 

 typical specimen. 



3224. Zoraidoides malabarensis, Dist. A. M. N. II. (S) xiii, p. 418 

 (1914). 



Eody castaneous ; eyes black ; central carinations to mesonotum 

 and macular markings to pronotum pale ochraceous ; face pale 

 •ochraceous, spotted with castaneous; second joint of antennas 



Fisr. 50. — Zoraidoides malahurensis. 



dull ochraceous, its apex pale testaceous ; legs greyish white ; 

 tegmina and wings hyaline, the first with the costal marginal 

 area ochraceous, excepting above the first and second costal 

 areas, where it is hyaline, veins obscure ochraceous ; wings with 

 the veins brownish-ochraceous ; structural characters as in generic 

 diagnosis. 



Length excl. tegm. 5 ; exp. tegm. 26 millim. 



Hah. Malabar; Taliparamba(r. Bainhri(/(je hhtcher., Brit. Mas.). 



This specimen was found on " Pepper." 



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