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17<58. Purusha reversa, Hope (Eurybrachis), Tr.Llnn. .%c.xix,p. 134, 

 t. xii, f. 8 (1845) ; Atkins. (?) J. A. K Bemj. Iv, p. 22 (1886). 



"Fuscous-yellow, head and thorax coneolorous; abdomen whitish 

 in the middle, adorned posteriorly witli a yellow cottony substance, 

 apex shining white ; tegmina fuscous-yellow, tinted subsanguineous 

 at the base ; a round white spot at anterior margin, a second 

 smaller almost on the middle of the disc, and other very minute 



Fig. 102. — Vuniiliu reversa. 



spots sprinkled about ; basal half of wings whitish, apex irregularly 

 irrorated fuscous ; four anterior feet (legs) yello\-\"-fuscous ; tibiae 

 more obscui'e; last femora pale testaceous; tibiae blackish." (Hope.) 



Length excl. tegm. 14| : exp. tegm. 34 millim. 



Bah. 8ylhet {fide Hope) . 



This is a very scarce species. I have not seen it, and know of 

 no one who has, nor am I aware of the location of the type. By 

 the peculiar \\iugs it evidently constitutes an undescribed genus, 

 which I propose ]uay be known as Purusha, but wliich I cannot 

 structurally diagnose from the above specific description, and for 

 the same reason it could not be located in the synopsis of genera. 



Subfamily III. DICTYOPHARINiE. 



Dyctiophoroides, part., <S)^/». Ayin. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1839, p. 283. 

 Pseudophanides, •^•Avi., Amy. ^- Svrv. Hem. p. 502 (1843). 

 Dictyopharida, Stal, Hem. Afr. iv. p. 129 (1806). 

 Dietyopharina, S(M, Ofo. Vet.-Ah. For/i. 1870, p. 744: Atkins. 



J. A. S. Beng. Iv, p. 22 (1886). 

 DictyopbaridcT, Melich. Horn. Faun. Ceylon, p, 17 (1903). 



Stal, who is generally followed in the enumeration of these 

 subfamilies, thus diagnoses the Dictyopharinse : — Posterior tibiae 

 without a mobile apical spur ; sides of face not angulated ; legs 

 often simple ; anal area of wings never reticulate ; clavus very 

 rarely granulate, acuminate at apex, sometimes but rarely some- 

 what obtusely, distinctly closed ; the two veins remote or very 

 remote from the apex, sometimes, however, united in one behind the 

 middle ; costa seldom dilated ; tegmina sometimes abbreviated, or 

 connate with clavus and corium ; fi^ont without an apical ocellus. 



