HINDOLA. 195 



■and a central ochraceous suffusion or fascia ; pronotuin with a 

 transverse series of pale spots ; logs ocliraceous ; tegmina brownish 

 ■ochraceous, more or less thickly coarsely punctate, most of the 



Fig. 148.— Vervactor ti/picalis. 



Teius suffused with black and ornamented with small white spots, 

 a prominent black macular suffusion near middle of costal area; 

 -other structural characters as in generic diagnosis. 



Length incl. tegin. 6 millim. 



Hab. Ceylon; Obiya (0. >S. WicTcwar). 



Genus HINDOLA. 



Carystus, StSl, Berl. Ent. Zeitschr. vi, p. 303 (1862) ; SfM, Hem. Afr. 



iv, p. 81 (1866), nom. prfeocc. 

 Hindola, Kirk. Entomoloyid, xxxiii, p. 243 (1900), nom. nov. 



Type, //. viridicans, Stal, frosn Java, Singapore, and Tenasserim. 



Distribution. South Africa, Australia, Malaysia, and India. 



Vertex of liead narrow, much shorter than broad, subangularly 

 produced in front of eyes, its base more angularly sinuate, near 

 •apex transversely impressed ; face moderately globose, longer than 

 broad, well separated from eyes ; rostrum short ; pronotum about 

 three times longer than vertex of head, its anterior margin 

 ■strongly subangularly produced, lateral margins obliquely straight 

 to base of tegmina then obliquely and somewhat sinuately con- 

 tinued to base of scutellum, its base strongly concavely sinuate; 

 scutellum much longer than broad ; tegmina about or almost 

 three times longer than broad, apex rounded; posterior tibiaj with 

 two spines. 



3416. Hindola lucida, sj). n. 



Head, pronotum, scutellum, body beneath and legs pale ochra- 

 ceous, apical area of scutellum greyish white ; tegmina subhyaline, 

 "wrinkled, base, claval area, and broad apical margin bronzv- 



