276 PULGORID.i;. 



Geuus TAMBINIA. 

 Tambiiiica, Stdl, Bed. eiit. Zeitschr. iii, p. 31G (1859). 



Type, T. languida, Stfil. 



Distribution. Orieutal and INIalayau Eegions. 



Body short ; head a little narrower than the pronotum, the 

 vertex produced and apically rounded, its margins reflexed, and 

 with a central longitudinal carination ; face very strongly recli- 

 nated, nearly horizontal, between and behind eyes with the margins 

 subparallel, before eyes subangulate, base rounded, beneath for 

 more than half of length medially more or less distinctly carinate ; 

 clypeus triangular, convex, its margins not carinate : ocelli obso- 

 letely situate between the eyes ; antenna short ; pronotum a little 

 anteriorly produced, posteriorly profoundly emarginate, tricariuate, 

 the lateral carinas oblique ; mesonotum tricarinate, the lateral 

 carinae converging anteriorly, the central carina abbreviated 

 ])Osteriorly ; legs of moderate length, posterior tibia? bispiuose ; 

 tegmiua about one-third longer tlian the body, subparallel, their 

 apices rounded, four longitudinal veins extending for about two- 

 thirds from base, the lirst very near costal margin, fourth beyond 

 middle furcate, at about one-third from base obliquely divided 

 from seven short longitudinal veins, constituting short cellular 

 areas divided by transverse veins from longer and more numerous 

 apical areas in which many of the veins are furcate. 



The exact location of this genus is differently regarded. 

 Melichar (Hom. Faun. Ceylon) places it. .in the Cixiince, but Stal, 

 its founder, clearly by implication (Ofv. Vet-Ak. FiJrh. 1870, 

 p. 750), refers it to the TropiducMncc, where 1 leave it. 



A. Head rounded, hut not prominently narrowed anteriorly. 



a. Vertex of head longer than sjjace between eyes. 



a. Face about tivice as long as broad, the central carination 

 evanescent posteriorly . 



IS 17. Tambinia languida, Stdl,Berl. ent. Zeitschr. iii, p. 317 (1859) ; 

 Melich. Horn. Fau?t. Ceylon, p. 39 (1903). 



Pale virescent, the mesonotum some- 

 times tinted \Aitli ochraceous ; basal two- 

 thirds of tegmina semi-opaque, apical 

 third semihyaline, paler in hue, the 

 venation A'irescent ; wings pale semi- 

 hyaline, the venation virescent ; body 

 beneath more or less tinted with ochra- 

 ceous ; legs virescent ; apices of spines to 

 posterior tibiae fuscous ; vertex of head 

 a little longer than space between eyes ; 

 ,„ j.^-}'~'- ., face almost twice longer than broad, 



■^ the central longitudmal carmation be- 



coming evanescent posteriorly ; base of pronotum acutely angularly 

 emarginate. 



Length inch tegm. 7 to 8 millim. 

 Hah. Ceylon {Green, Brit. Mus.). 



