214 rULGOKIDiE. 



Stal preferred to regard A'. pauJima as a colour-variety of the 

 preceding species. 1 have followed Signoret and Atkinson in 

 treating it as distinct. 



1733. Kalidasa albiflos, JValk. {AiAieena) List Ilom. ii, p. 280 (1851); 

 Atkins. (Aphaiia?) J. A. *S'. Be»ff. liv, p. 148 (1885). 



Head above ochraceous; thorax above olivaceous ; lateral margins 

 of pronotum narrowly ochraceous and inwardly black ; abdomen 

 above black, segmental margins ochraceous, posterior segments 

 cretaceously tomentose ; body beueath and legs testaceous-red ; 

 anterior and intermediate tibiae and tarsi and sometimes the pos- 

 terior tibia) (partly) black ; tegmina piceous, much mottled with 

 greyish fasciate-like spots, apical or outer area brownish-testaceous 

 and finely reticulate, beneath this area is usually finely greyishly 

 tomentose ; wings piceous, the apical, posterior, and anal areas 

 greyish-white, in some specimens very pale fuscous-brown, the 

 piceous area mottled with bluish-grey irregular spots ; pronotum 

 subobsoletely medially carinate, the mesonotum with the cariuation 

 practically obsolete ; rostrum very long, reaching the penultimate 

 abdominal segment. 



Length excl. tegm. 17 to 20 ; exp. tegm. 47 to 55 millirn. 



Hah. Malabar (Brit. 3his). Bombay {Leith Sf Dixon, Coll Dist.). 



1734. Kalidasa dives, U'a//:. (Aphasna) List Horn, ii, p. 280 (1851) : 

 Atkins. rAphaua ?) /. A. aS'. Beriff. liv, p. 147 (1885). 

 Euphria (?) walkeri, Atkiiis. J. A. S. Beyuj. liv, p. 152 (1885). 



Greatly resembling the preceding species (K.albiJJos), hut smaller, 

 the rostrum longer and reaching the base of the abdominal anal 

 appendage ; sternum with piceous suffusion ; tegmina with the 

 ground-colour reversed, being pale greenish-testaceous with very 

 numerous black spots, many of them fasciate in appearance, apical 

 or outer area as in A', alhijfos, and wings scarcely differing from 

 those of that species. 



Length excl. tegm. 15 ; exp. tegm. 42 millim. 



Hah. Malabar {Brit. J\h(s.). 



Genus GEBENNA. 



Gebemia, *SY«/. Tr. E. S. (3) i, p. 582 (I860): id. Hem. Afr. iv, 

 p. 135 (1806) ; Atkins. J. A. S. Be//;/, liv, p. 154 (1885). 



Type, G. st/h'ia, Stfil. 



Distribution., British India. 



Head moderately broad, a little narrower than the pronotum, 

 not protuberant ; vertex transverse, its anterior margin straight, 

 posterior margin broadly sinuate ; face subquadrate, moderately 

 amplified on both sides at junction with clypeus, median area 

 amplified upward, broadly subtruncate at apex, a little gibbous 



