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FULGOEIDjE. 



pronotum short with a strong central carination and posteriorly 

 profoundly angularly eniarginate ; mesouotuni obsoletely ti'icari- 

 uate ; legs moderately short and slender ; tegmina somewhat 

 narrow, apically widened, the longitudinal veins bifurcate, a few- 

 transverse veins a little beyond middle, and a curved transverse 

 series of transverse veins a little before apical margin, which 

 are discally globosely thickened and delimitate some large and 

 prominent apical veins. 



1870. Devadanda pectinata, sp. n. 



Head with the broadly laminate areas 

 brownish-grey, the vertex and face 

 orange-red ; pronotum and mesonotum 

 piceous, the marginal ridges of the first 

 and a broad central fascia to the latter 

 orange-yellow ; legs orange-yellow, the 

 femora brownish ; antennse piceous- 

 brown ; tegmina piceous-brown, narrow 

 basal area and veins on apical area 

 purplish-red, oblique veins on posterior 

 half of costal area orange-red, the sub- 

 apical cellular areas somewhat paler 

 fuliginous than the remainder of the 

 tegmen. 



Length inch tegm. 5 millim. 



Hah. Tenasserim : Myitta {Doherty). 



Fig. 154. 

 Devadanda pectinata. 



1877. Gen.? crenatonervosa, Motsch. (DerbeP) Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc 

 xxxvi (3) p. 113, t. ii, f. 25 (1863) ; Kirby, J. Linn. Soc.Zool. 

 xxiv, p. i42 (1891). 



" Elongate, compressed, carinate, nigro-piceous ; vertex of head, 

 central area of mesonotum, and legs palely brownish-testaceous ; 

 tegmina strongly fuliginous sublucid ; mesonotum with the 

 lateral carinas somewhat silvery-white ; tegmina with the veins 

 piceous and crenulately elevated ; head transverse, posteriorly pro- 

 foundly excavate, anteriorly abruptly, concavely truncate ; vertex 

 quadrangular, tricarinate ; eyes oblong, convex, beneath moderately 

 sinuate ; antennae with the first joint globose ; thorax transverse, 

 quadrangulate, tricarinate, anterior margin somewhat narrowly 

 whitish." {Motschoulslcy .) 



" Length 2h lin. ; lat. tegm. 'i lin." 



Hah. Ceylon ; Mts. of Nura-Ellia {fide Motschouhlcy). 



I can only call attention to this species by giving the salient 

 points of Motschoulsky's description ; I have failed to identify it 

 with any specimen that has passed through my hands ; the figure 

 given is only helpful, certainly not satisfactory. 



