LAC USA. 



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moderately slioi't and robust, the anterior and intermediate femora 

 and tibicG compi-essed and dilated on each side, posterior til:»iap 

 thickened and armed with two strong spines; posterior tarsi 

 with the basal ]oint much thickened ; tegmina long, their apices 

 angularly rounded, costal margins slightly sinuate beyond middle, 

 basal longitudinal veins forked at their apices, where there are 

 three short contiguous series of transverse veins, costal membrane 

 with oblique veins, and a number of transverse veins on apical 

 area ; wings broader than tegmina. 



18s4. Bisma greeni, sp. n. 



Body above eastaneous-brown ; lateral ridges to vertex of head, 

 central carinate areas to pro- and mesonota, and abdominal lateral 

 and segmental margins ochraceous : face beneath dull castaneous. 







Fig. l.')8. — JjUiim (/rceni. 



the marginal areas spotted with ochraceous ; body beneath and 

 legs castaneous, the legs more or less spotted and annulated with 

 ochraceous, posterior tibife ochraceous with their apices and the 

 bases of the spines piceous ; tegmina with about basal half 

 brownish-ochraceous mottled with fuscous, outer half paler and 

 less mottled ; a broad curved piceous fascia crossing near middle, 

 and tMO broad oblique fascite on posterior area, wliich are united 

 on posterior margin, the outermost connected with the apical 

 margin by a short longitudinal fascia; wings pale fuliginous 

 with the apical and posterior margins fuscous. 



Length excl. tegm. 9 ; exp. tegm. 24 millim. 



Hah. Ceylon; Kandy (&'/wn). 



Genus LACUSA. 



Lacusa, Stdl, BerJ. ent. Zeitschr. \i, p. 309 (1S62) ; id. Hem. Afr. 

 iv, p. 199 (18G6) ; Atkins. J. A. S. Bemj. Iv, p. 42 (1886). 



Type, L. fuscqfasciata, Stal. 

 Distribution. Oriental Region. 



Head narrower than the pronotum : vertex rather long, its 



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