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Genus ANCYRA. 



Aiicyra, WJiite, A. M. N. H. xv. p. 34 (1845) : Atkins. J. A. S. Benq. 

 liv, p. 156 (1885). 



Type, A. appendicuJata, White. 



Distrihvtion. Oriental Region. 



Eyes with a tuberculous spine beneath ; head (inchiding eyes) a 

 little broader than the prouotum : anterior margin of front with 

 a well-developed ridge ; face oblique, much broader than long, 

 \A ith transverse rugose lines ; clypeus narrow ; pronotum slightlv 

 broader than mesonotum, witli three discai longitudinal ridges ; 

 tegmina narrow in male, much broader in female, distinctly 

 notched on posterior margin at claval apex, narrowed at apical 

 area in male, and in this sex proAided with a long apical process, 

 apical area not narrowed but broadly apically rounded in female 

 aud provided with a somewhat short dentate apical process ; 

 venation longitudinal, ^^ith very indistinct transverse veinlets ; 

 wings in both sexes about as broad as tegmina, elongate, a little 

 broadened medially and provided in the female with a short 

 robust apical process ; anterior femora compressed, moderate!}' 

 dilated ; anterior tibia? strongly dilated, posterior tibi* with four 

 spines. 



1751. Ancyra appeiidiculata. White. A. M. X. H. xv, p. 34 (1845) ; 

 Westw. Cab. Orient. £nf. p. 74, t. xxxvi, f. 5 (1848) : Dist. 

 J. A. S. Bene/, xlviii (2), p. 38 (1879). 



(S . Head, pro- and mesonota, and 

 sternum brownish-ochraceous; anterior 

 margin of front, margins of pronotum, 

 and posterior angle of mesonotum 

 narrowly fuscous ; face with margins 

 and transverse rugose lines fuscous ; 

 legs piceous, more or less speckled with 

 pjo. 95 pale brownish ; metanotum and basal 



A/wyra appeiidiciilafa. c^ . half of abdomen sanguineous, apical 

 half ochraceous with its dorsal disk 

 black ; tegmina shining brownish-ochraceous, the apical appen- 

 dages black ; wings black, their apical margins palely fuscous. 



5. Eesembling J , but with the tegmina much broader and 

 apically broadly rounded ; aboA e dull purplish-red, with the apical 

 area united to a preceding oblique transverse fascia, and a ntmiber 

 of small spots on basal half, greyish ; beneath more uniformly and 

 brightly purple-red, with the apical margin ochraceous ; wings 

 generally as in male, but with a tooth-like apical appendage ; 

 abdomen much covered with white waxy efflorescence. 



Length excl. tegm., d" 6, $ 9; exp. tegm., J 20, $ 23 to 

 26 milhm. 



-Hah. Burma : Moulmein (Jide Wright) : Tenasserim, Myitta 

 (Doherti/). 



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