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APPENDIX. — FDLGORIDiE. 



small pale fuscous spot ; wings creamy-wliite, subhyaline, tlie 

 Aeius almost concolorous. 



Length excl. tegm. 2 mm.; exp. tegm. 9 millim. 



Hah. Ceylon ; Nuwara Eliya, Pattipola (Green). 



Genus ALARA. 

 Alara, Dist. A. M. N. H. (8) p. 043 (1911). 



Type, A. dux, Dist. 



Disiribntion. Ce_vlon . 



Vertex of head very narrow, slightly projecting beyond eyes ; 

 face long, narrow, a little widened before clypeus, \a hich is long, 

 broad, finely carinate centrally and laterally ; antennae short, in- 

 serted near base of clypeus, second joint very robust ; pronotum 

 narrow, triangularly anteriorly produced, the lateral areas mode- 

 rately foliaceously ampliate ; mesonotum broad ; legs long and 

 slender ; tegmina short, broad, costal margin rounded, narrowed 

 and sinuate at base, costal area broad with a few transverse veins, 

 apical areas numerous and short, a subapical series of transverse 

 discontinuous veins, two transverse discal veins a little beyond 

 base ; wings a little narrower and shoi'ter than tegmina. 



Alara in this enumeration may be also placed among the genera 

 near Kermesia, Melicli, 



3231. Alara dux, Dist. A. M.N. H. (8) viii, p. 643 (1911). 



Body and legs ochraceous ; anterior femora and apical area of 

 abdomen castaneous ; tegmina subhvaline, talc-like, suffused with 



FiiT. 5G. 



pale fuscous, which is broken on costal and apical areas and also 

 near end of clavus, extreme costal margin in places carmine-red ; 

 wings creamy-white. 



Length excl. tegm. 2 ; exp. tegm. 9 millim. 



Hah. Ceylon; Maskeliya, Kandy (&Vfen). 



