15RASSlA'OI-A. 



373 



spines, the lateral spines long, horizontal, notched at base ; 

 scutellum tumid, rounded, not acuminate at apex. 



Length 20 to 2'2 millim. 



Ilah. "North India'* (Brit. IIu.s.). Assam; Xoa Dehiug and 

 Xortli Khiisi Hills (Chennell). Burma; Ruby Mines (Coll. 

 Dist.). Tenasserim, Mt. Moolejnt (Fea). 



1304. Epidaus bicolor, Dist. A. M. X. II. (7) xi. p. iU7 (1903). 



Head, pronotum. scutellum, sternum, coxte, and anterior femora 

 bright reddish-ochraceous ; central lobe of head, antennae, i-ostrum 

 (excluding apex), corium, membrane, abdomen beneath, apices of 

 anterior femora, anterior tibiae and tarsi, and the intermediate and 

 posterior legs pale luteous ; eyes and apex of rostrum black ; 

 basal joint of antenuse about equal in length to head, pi'onotum, 

 and scutellum together ; postocular area of head a little longer 

 than the anteocular portion; anterior lobe of pronotum cen- 

 trally sulcate, posterior ])ro)iotal lobe with two somewhat long 

 and acute tuberculous discal spines, the lateral angles also longly 

 spinously produced, the posterior angles moderately prominent and 

 rounded ; membrane about reaching or slightly passing abdominal 

 apex. 



Length 21 to 22 millim. ; breadth bet\Aeen pronotal angles 

 Qh millim. 

 ~ Hah. Malabar {Mesurier. Brit. J/;«.*.).— AVest China (Pratt, Coll. 

 Dist.). 



Genus BRASSIVOLA, nov. 



Type, B. Jit/strir, Dist. 



Distrihution. Ceylon. 



Head elongate, a littl(> shorter than pronotum, ^\ith a long erect 



spine behind the base of each 

 antenna, anteocular and post- 

 ocular areas about equal i)i 

 length, area of each ocellus 

 distinctly tuberculous ; first 

 joint of rostrum slightly longer 

 than two remaining joints to- 

 gether ; iirst joint of antennte 

 as long as anterior femora ; 

 pronotum with four erect discal 

 spines, two on anterior and two 

 on posterior lobe, lateral pos- 

 terior spines long, horizontally 

 directed ; apex of scutellum 

 moderately acuminate ; abdo- 

 men beneath gibbous and mode- 

 rately centrally ridged, lateral 

 margins moderately dilated, 

 the fourth segment more 

 anterior femora somewhat strongly incrassated. 



2r 2 



Fig. 236 

 strongly 



-Brassh'ola hystrl.v. 



