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FL'LGORID^. 



wings pale semi-hyaliue, the venation mostly pale fuscous; 

 tegniina crossed before middle by a curved, slightly broken. 



Fig. 117. — -Kiivera scmihyaJina. 



macular fuscous fascia ; stigma piceous, inwardly margined \\ith 

 ochraceous. 



Length escl. tegni. 5; exp. tegm. 16 millim 



Hah. Burma: Euby Mines (Z>o7j^rf?/). 



Grenus KIRBYANA, nom. n. 



Kirbya, Melich. Honi. Faun. Ceylon, p. 37 (1903), nom. prfeocc. in 

 Lepid. & Dipt. 



Type, A', pagana, Melich. 



Distribution. Ceylon. 



Head with the semi-globular eyes narrower than pronotum ; 

 face rather longer than broad, elongate, quadrangular, smooth, 

 carinate at sides and middle, at anterior margin angularly 

 indented, longer than breadth between eyes, nearly as long as 

 clypeus, expanded and broadest at clypeus; clypeus large, carinate 

 at middle and sides ; ej^es longly oval, slightly concave beneath ; 

 antennae short, second joint strongly cylindrical ; ocelli distinct 

 near anterior margins of eyes ; pronotum very narrow, scarcely 

 half as long as the vertex ; mesonotum nearly twice as long 

 as pronotum and vertex together, tricarinate ; tegmina placed 

 vertically, apical margin slightly convex ; three discal longitudinal 

 veins, of which the upper and lower are forked ; two series of 

 transvei'se veins in middle and apical areas, the latter much more 

 complete ; abdomen laterally compressed ; legs simple ; posterior 

 tibipe not spiued. 



1800. Kirljyana pagana, Melich. (Kirbya) Horn. Faun. Ceylon, p. 38, 

 t. ii, f. 1 a, b, c. 



Body laterally compressed ; vertex, middle of pronotum and 

 mesonotum yellowish, outer sides or vertical ridges bordered with 

 brown, at the end of vertical ridge, but on its inner side, a small 

 brown spot ; face yellowish marbled M"ith numerous brown 

 blotches, middle carina paler, lateral ridges with two pale spots ; 

 clypeus yellow with indistinct brown stripes ; ocelli ruby-red ; 



