KINNAEA. 



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Genus KINNARA, n. nom. 



Pleroma, Melich. Horn. Faun. Ceylon, p. 41 (1903), iioin. praeocc. 

 (Spong-. et Ins.). 



Type, K. ce)/Ionica, Melich. 



Distribution. Ceylon. 



Head short, much narrower than pronotum, the anterior 

 margins of face slightly projecting beyond eyes and giving the 

 appearance of lateral angulations to vertex, which is concave with 

 its margins carinate ; eyes with their posterior margins concavely 

 emarginate ; face narro^Aest between eyes, anteriorly emarginate, 

 ampliated towards middle, and then a little narrowed to clypeus, 

 centrally practically non-carinate ; clypeus nearly as long as face, 

 centrally and laterally carinate ; pronotum narrow ; mesonotum 

 moderately convex and very obsoletely tricariuate ; legs of moderate 

 length, posterior tibice not spined ; tegmina somewhat narrow, 

 their apical margins rounded, a small distinct indentation on costal 

 margin beyond middle, beneath which there is an apparently sac- 

 like area, lower longitudinal vein furcate, a series of transverse 

 veins before apical area, and two transverse discal veins just beyond 

 middle, apical areas numerous, about ten in number: wings a 

 little wider than teermina. 



1835. Kinnara ceylonica, Melich. (Pleroma) Hutn. Faun. Ceylon, 

 p. 42, t. i, f. 12, a, b, c (1903). 



Head, thorax above, body beneath, and legs flaveseent ; meso- 

 notum more rufous in hue ; 

 eyes and apex of abdomen 

 black ; tegmina pale flaves- 

 eent, more or less greyish 

 on apical half, a small cre- 

 taceous spot at the costal 

 indentation ; wings very 

 pale fuliginous, with the 

 venation fuscous ; in some 

 specimens there are short, 

 ray-like, very obscure pale 

 fuscous spots in the apical 

 areas to the tegmina, but 

 these are not of a constant 

 character. 



Length excl. tegm. 3 to 3| ; exp. tegm. 10 to lOh millim. 



Hah. Ceylon; Peradeniya ((xj^ew). 



I have reproduced Melichar's figure in order that the structural 

 characters of his genus may be more readily understood. 



183G. Kinnara fumata, Melich. (Pleroma) Ho^n. Faun. Ceylon, p. 42 

 (1903). 



" Above and beneath smoky-brown ; head small ; vertex very 

 short, margins leaf-hke, raised, and passing off into the raised 



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Fig. 137. — Kinnara ceylonica. 



