BEIXIA. 



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ridges to legs pale piceons ; tegmina creamy-white suffused with 

 pale fuscous, the venation dark fuscous, a little paler on apical 

 area ; the stigma fuscous, ochraceous at base and apex ; the apical 

 areas mostly pale fuscous, a few scattered, short, waved, fuscous 

 spots, three in costal membrane, four in broken sequence beneath 

 it, and two on central disk of ulnar areas, claval area palely 

 infuscate, near outer angle of posterior margin is a large rounded 



Fisr. 123. — Mchindcva occllafa. 



piceous spot with an ochraceous outer margin and a white central 

 papillate spot ; wings pale fuscous with greyish-white suffusions. 



Length excl. tegm. 9| ; exp. tegm. 80 millim. 



Hah. Assam ; Khasi Hills {Brit. Mus.). Burma ; Momeit 

 {Dohertij). 



Genus BEIXIA. 



Brixia, Sidl, Ofv. Vet.-Ak. Fork. (1856) p. 162 ; id. Hem. Afr. iv, 

 pp. 166 & 173 (1866) ; Atkins. J. A. S. Beng. Iv, p. 33 (1886) ; 

 Melich. Horn. Faun. Ceylon, p. 33 (1903). 



Triopsis (part.), Sign. Ann. Soc. Fid. Fr. 1860, p. 187. 



Type, B. natalicola, Stal, from 8. Africa. 



Distribution. Ethiopian and Oriental Eegions. 



Head much narrower than the prouotum, vertex narrow, com- 

 pressed, narrow er by half than the eyes, passing over into the 

 face, which is long, gradually narrowed upward, much compressed 

 between the eyes, without or with a very obsolete medial ridge, 

 but with lateral margins strongly carinate, an ocellus at the apex ; 

 clypeus with a median ridge and its lateral margins carinate ; 

 eyes sinuated beneath ; antennae inserted beneath the eyes, first 

 joint exserted, second longer than thick ; pronotum very short, 

 angularly emarginate at base ; mesonotum tricarinate ; tegmina 

 gradually but distinctly ampliate towards apices, radial and 

 exterior ulnar veins united near their bases ; legs of moderate 

 length, simple, posterior tibiae unarmed. 



I have followed Stal's description of his genus. 



