256 rULGOlMJD-E. 



b. Face broadened posteriorly, but anteriorly 



straiglitly narrowed and produced beyond 



eyes . . '. Chroneba, p. 267. 



c. Face long, narrow, lateral margins strongly 



carinate, narrowed towards clypeus Malandeva, J). 268, 



d. Face long, narrow, lateral margins strongly 



carinate, more or less narrowed and com- 

 pressed between eyes Brixia, p. 269. 



Genus OLIARUS. 



Oliarus, Stdl, Berl. ent. Zeitschv. vi, p. ^06 (1862) ; Hon. Afr. iv, 

 pp. 164 & 166 (1866) ; Atkt7is. J. A. S. Bnuj. Iv. p. 32 (l886) ; 

 Alelich. Horn. Faun. Ceylon, p. 30 (1903). 



Triopsis (part.), 8ign. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1800, p. 187. 



Type, 0. tvallceri, Stal. 



Distribution. Ethiopian, Oriental, Malayan, and Eastei'n Palm- 

 are tic Eegious. 



Head somewhat narrower than the tliorax, angularly einarginate 

 at the base, vertex concave, varying in length and breadth ; face and 

 clypeus together elliptical, with a distinct median longitudinal ridge 

 running through them ; the lateral margins rounded, slightly 

 dilated ; face with an apical ocellus ; margins of clypeus ridged ; 

 eves slightly or scarcely sinuated beneath ; antenna3 very short, 

 inserted beneath the eyes, first joint concealed, second small, some- 

 W'hat globose ; pronotum very short, postei'iorly deeply angularly 

 sinuate : mesonotum with live longitudinal ridges ; tegmina 

 rounded at apices, radial and exterior ulnar veins contiguous at 

 their bases, radial and anterior ulnar veins bifurcating before the 

 middle of the tegmen ; legs moderately long, posterior tibiae armed 

 with two or three spines. 



A. Tegmina witJi the cellular areas ivithout minute setose fuscous spots. 



1791. Oliarus walkeri, StSl (Cixius), Freg. Fug. Resa, Hem. p. 272 

 (1859) ; i(h (Oliarus) Berl. ent. Zeitschr. vi. p. 306 (1862) ; Atkins. 

 J. A. S. Beny.lv. p. 33 (1886). 



Obscurely testaceous ; face and legs flavous-testaceous ; tegmina 



pale vinaceous-hyaline, veins 

 concolorous, remotely punc- 

 tured with fuscous beyond 

 the middle, the five apical 

 transverse veins inf uscated ; 

 stigma pale testaceous - 

 yellow, in\^ardly narrowly 

 fuscous ; head flavous-tes- 

 Fig. m.-Olkn-Hs walkeri. taceous, vertex almost twice 



as long as broad, with two 

 ridges running forward and converging from the middle ; face with 

 the oval clypeus narrowed at base and apex, a single forked ridge 



