282 



VUJjGO-RIBJE. 



veins, of the three basal longitudinal veins the lower only forked, 

 two series of transverse veins dividing eight subapical and many 

 apical areas, one of the longitudinal veins to the latter bifurcate 

 towards apex ; wings short and somewhat narrow. 



In his description of the type of this genus, Walker states that 

 the vertex is " more than twice broader than long,"' but this is 

 entirely incorrect. 



Both Stal and Melichar have placed Stacota in the JRiccmiince, a 

 course not followed here, by reason of the structure of the head. 



1827. Stacota breviceps, Walk. (Dictyophora) List Horn. Siqjpl. 

 ]). 08 (1858) ; StcV (Stacota), Ofi\ Vet-Ale. Fork. 1862, p. 487 ; 

 Kirbi/, J. Linn. Soc, Zool. xxiv, p. 134 (1891) ; Melich. Annal. 

 k.-k. nnturh. Hofmus. p. 326, t. xiv, f. 16, a, b (1898) ; id. 

 Horn. Faim. Ceylon, p. 86 (1903). 

 Stacota coniptella, Stal, Berl. ent. Zeitschr. iii, p. 325 (1859) ; Kirhy, 

 J. Linn. Soc, Zool, xxiv, p. 134 (1891). 



Body and legs virescent in fresh specimens, ochraceous in older 

 and discoloured examples ; anterior and lateral margins and central 

 carination to vertex, central and lateral carinse to face, central 

 carination to elypeus, aud the mesonotal carina? more or less red ; 



Fig. 131. — Stacota tjveviccps. 



abdomen above with a central maculate fascia aud extreme 

 segmental margins red ; tegmiua and wings hyaline, the venation 

 ochraceous ; tegmina wiih the venation somewhat thickly covered 

 with minute setose darker spots, which in some specimens, as the 

 one here ligured, are scarcely visible. 



Length excl. tegm. 6 ; exp. tegm. 18 millim. 



Hah. Ceylon ; Pei'adeniya, Kaudy, Puudaluoya, Heuaratgoda 

 (Green). 



Genus EPORA. 



Epora, Walk. J. Linn. Soc, Zool. i, p. 145 (1857) ; Stal, Hem. 

 Afr. iv, p. 188 (1866) ; Melich. Horn. Faun. Ceylon, p. 48 

 (1903). 



Type, E. suhtilis, "Walk. 



Distribution. Oriental and Malayan Eegions. 

 Head narrower than pronotum ; vertex considerably shorter than 

 broad, its lateral and anterior margins ridged ; face longer than 



