DKONA. 305 



The species is said to be founded on a single example contained 

 in the Colombo Museum, and I defer describing it till a specimen 

 has reached my hands. 



Genus DRONA, nov. 



Type, D. caniosa, AVestw. 



Distribution. Oriental Region. 



Head much narrower than prouotum ; vertex elongate, narrow, 

 laterally strongly ridged between eyes and distinctly projecting 

 beyond them ; face very narrow and laterally ridged ; clypeus 

 large, tricarinate, the lateral carinoe somewhat obscure ; rostrum 

 robust, the apical joint minute ; pronotum narrow, posteriorly 

 strongly subaugularly emarginate ; mesonotum large, moderately 

 convex, neither pronotum nor mesonotum carinated ; abdomen in 

 the male furnished apically with a pair of long, forceps-like, anal 

 appendages ; legs of moderate length, more or less distinctly 

 longitudinally grooved, posterior tibiae nob spined ; tegmina long, 

 ample, obliquely narrowed at inner margin from about middle to 

 base, apical margin truncate, costal membrane with an oblique 

 transverse vein near middle ; upper ulnar area very long, ex- 

 tending from radial area to near apex, with a transverse vein near 

 middle and five short veins on and around its apical margin, 

 beneath it a longitudinal series of obliquely transverse veins, the 

 apical areas long ; wings very short and narrow. 



1859. Drona carnosa, JTesiJ^i;. (Derbe (Phenice?)) A.M.N.H. (2) 

 vii, p. 210 (1851) ; Atkins. (Pbenice) J. A. S. Beng. Iv, p. 42 



(1886). 



Head, thorax, and legs testaceous-red, tibiae and tarsi more 

 or less infuscate ; abdomen shining black ; tegmina very pale 



t 

 Fig. 146. — Brona eariiosa. 



fuliginous-hyaline, extreme base and costal membrane pale 

 ochraceous, the latter with its margins prominently piceous ; 

 venation piceous ; wings hyaline, the posterior margins fuscous. 



Length excl. tegm. 3.^ ; exp. tegm. 20 to 21 millim. 



Hah. "North India "' (5ri^. Mus.). 



The type or a cotype of this species, labelled by the late 

 Prof. Westwood, is in the British Museum, and from it the 



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