VEKUNTA. 



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finely ridged ; pronotum narrow, its base strongly, deeply einar- 

 ginate, tricarinate, the lateral carinae curved inwardly and meeting 

 anteriorly ; mesonotum finely ti-icarinate ; legs moderately long 

 and slendei', posterior tibise with a single spine : tegmina mode- 

 rately ampliate at apical areas and inwardly arapliate behind the 

 clavus, radial vein and the lower longitudinal vein furcate, two 

 series of transverse veins, the first about three in number, situate 

 beyond middle and connecting the longitudinal veins, the second 

 series more numerous and couvexly continuous before apical 

 margin ; wings broader than tegmina. 



1832. Faventia pustulata, Walk. (Cixius) J. Linn. Soc, Zool. i, p. 87 

 (IBoG) ; StSl (Faventia), Berl. ent. Zeitschv. x, p. 392 (1866). 



Body and legs umber-brown ; foveations to vertex and two small 

 spots at base of mesonotum black ; tegmina dull greyish, the apical 

 areas darker, the venation very pale ochraceous, excluding apical 



Fig. 135. — Faventia. pustulata. 



marginal areas sprinkled with small fuscous spots, with a few larger 

 piceous spots, of which the most prominent are one at apex of 

 claval area, one on disk before middle, and another at base ; 

 wings fulighious, the venation fuscous, and with a small distinct 

 discal greyish spot ; there is also a prominent black spot on each 

 side of the prosternum ; the central and lateral ridges of the face 

 are piceous-brown and its anterior margin truncate. 



Length excl. tegm. 8 ; exp. tegm. 22 millim. 



Hah. Tenasserim ; Myitta (Doherty). — Singapore (Bi-it. Mus.). 



Genus VEKUNTA, u. nom. 



Temesa, Melich. Horn. Faun. Ceylon, p. 40 (1903), nom. prEeocc. 

 (Moll). 



Type, V. tenella, Melich. 



Distribution, Ceylon. 



Head with eyes narrower than pronotum ; face quadrangular, 

 flattened at the sides, scarcely keeled, straightly projecting a little 

 in front of eyes, the anterior margin divided from the vertex by 



