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Genus ALUNTIA. 



Aluutia, Sm, Hem. Afr. iv, pp. 151 & 160 (1866). 

 Dendrophora, Melich. Horn. Faun. Ceylon, p. 21 (1903). 



Type, A. schimperii, Guer., an Ethiopian species. 



Distribution. Ethiopian, Oriental, and Australasian Regions. 



Body oblong ; head longly produced, slender, more or less 

 longitudinally, broadly sulcafce above and beneath, obsoletely 

 medially carinate beneath from behind eyes and through clypeus ; 

 pronotum and mesonotum discally finely tricarinate ; second joint 

 of antennae oblong, subcylindrical ; rostrum extending to between 

 the intermediate and posterior coxaB ; legs slender, posterior tibiae 

 much longer than femora and with about three short spines 

 on their posterior halves ; tegmiua moderately long, their apices 

 distinctly ampliated, thickly covered with transverse veins, and for 

 about basal two-thirds thickly interspersed with short veinlets ; 

 clavus without a transverse vein, but the claval veins united 

 before middle ; wings transversely veined on apical area. 



1773. Aluntia ramosa, Melich. (Dendrophora) Horn. Faun. Ceylon, 

 p. -J-J, t. i, f. .5 (1903). 



Body pale virescent in fresh specimens, in old or dried 

 examples pale ochraceous : tegmina very palely virescent, the 

 venation darker; wings a little paler than tegmina; head about 



as longas,ora little longer than, 

 pro- and mesonota together ; 

 pronotum with the lateral 

 edges acute, medially finelj' 

 tricarinate, the posterior angles 

 obsoletely subacute ; meso- 

 notum longer than pronotum 

 and medially tricarinate. 



Length ceph. process, angle 

 from apex to eyes 4 ; eyes to 

 apex abdom. 10| ; exp. tegm. 

 21 to 28 millim. 



Hab. Ceylon ; Kaudy (Green).— Malay Peninsula (Distant c^'- 

 Doliertt/). 



Genus DICTYOPHARA. 



Dictyophara, Germ. Silb. Rev. Ent. i. p. 175 (1833) ; St&l, Hem. 



Afr. iv. p. 154 (1866) ; Atkins. J. A. S. Beng. Iv, p. 26 (1886) ; 



Dist. Biol. Centr.-Am., Rhynch. Horn. i. p. 39 (1887). 

 Dictiophora, Spin. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1839, p. 290. 

 Pseudophana, Buryn. Handb. Ent. ii, 1, p. 159 (18.36). 

 Chanithus, Amy. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1847, p. 160. 

 Nersia, Stal, Rio Jan. Hem. ii, p. 62 (1861). 



Type, D. europcea, Linn., a Palaearctic species. 

 Distribution. Apparently almost universal. 



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