MIASA. 



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I have not seen this species, which is, however, figui'ed by 

 MeKchar, and I have transcribed what appears to be the salient 

 points of his description. 



b. Mesonotum tricarinate. 



1781. Putala maculata, sp. n. 



Head and thorax above brownish-oehraceous, apex and a lateral 

 line on each side of cephalic process piceous ; all the ridges to 

 head, pro- and mesonota, and the posterior angle of the last a 

 little paler ; abdomen above dark castaneous-brown, the posterior 

 segmental margins and lateral linear spots ochraceous ; disk of 

 sternum and the abdomen beneath piceous; face, base of clypeus, 

 sternal lateral areas, coxae, trochanters, legs, and posterior 



Fig. 107. — Putala. viae, data. 



abdominal segmental margins ochraceous ; legs with longitudinal 

 piceous lines ; tegmina and wings hyaline, the venation fuscous ; 

 tegmina with the stigma and scattered apical maculate markings 

 piceous ; cephalic process a little upwardly directed ; posterior 

 tibiae profoundly sulcate and armed with five spines. 



Length excl. tegm. 8 ; exp. tegm. 21 millim. 



Hah. Nilgiri Hills (Hampson). Utakamand (Athins. Coll., 

 Brit. Mus.). 



Genus MIASA, nov. 



Type, M. smarar/dilmea, Walk. 



Distributioyi. Oriental and Malayan Eegions. 



Body elongate ; head strongly produced in front, thick and 

 subglobose to a little beyond eyes, then suddenly narrowed into 

 a long straight linear process, which is medially sulcate above 

 and beneath ; face elongate, moderately convexly widened 

 apically, its lateral margins carinate and with a strong central 

 longitudinal ridge ; rostrum long, about reaching the iniddle of 

 abdomen; pronotum with the lateral margins moderately laminate, 

 their anterior angles rounded, base very strongly angularly sinuate, 

 the anterior margin centrally angularly produced and medially 

 longitudinally carinate ; mesonotum very obsoletely carinate ; legs 

 long and slender ; posterior femora very short, only about half 

 the length of the posterior tibiae, Avhich possess about five prominent 



