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femora black, their apices and the tibiae and tarsi pale castaneous ; 

 tegmina dark ochraceous, with the exception of the apical 

 margin the whole surface is more or less mottled with black ; 

 lateral prouotal angles prominent, but not produced ; posterior 



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Fig. 12(1. — Gargara >iiiaia, vnr. ? nandidrvgana. 



pronotal process reaching the posterior angle of the inner tegminal 

 margin, strongly centrally carinate, its apex acute. 



Length 5 ; breadth lat. pronot. angl. 2^ millim. 



Hah. South India; Nandidrug (T. V. Camphdl). 



This may prove to be a distinct species? 



3378. Gargara splendidula, sp. ii. 



Head and pronotum black ; body beneath and legs black ; 

 tegmina subhyaline, the basal area and a very large central 

 irregular spot black ; prouotnm (including the posterior process) 

 coarsely punctate, the posterior process very strongly centrally 

 carinate, this cariuation much more faintly continued on disk of 

 pronotum ; the basal black area of the tegmina tlistinctly 

 punctate. 



Length 5 ; breadth lat. pronot. angl. 2| millim. 



Hah. N. Lidia [Brit. Mus. — Purchased at the sale of the 

 specimens belonging to the Entomological tSociety of London). 



3379. Gargara caelata, sp. n. 



Body black ; central carination to pronotum (excluding apex of 

 posterior process) castaneous red; legs black, apices of femora 

 castaneous red : tegmina fuscous brown mottled with gre^ash, the 

 apical marginal area more distinctly greyish ; pronotum thickly 

 finely ])unctate, centrally percurrently carinate, tlie posterior 

 pronotal process sinuate at base, moderately amjdiated at middle, 

 the apex narrowed and subacute, face thickly finely punctate. 



Length 6 ; breadth lat. pronot. angl. 2^ millim. 



Hah. jXilgiri Hills (^'tV G. Hampson). 



A large species to be readily recognized by its peculiar and 

 distinct coloration, and in this respect alhed to G. venosa, Walk., 

 from Tondano. 



