KUSUMA. 



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ridged, face not projecting beyond it as iu Se}-icl<( ; face longer 

 than broad, iinely centrally and sublaterally ridged, the sublateral 

 ridges rounded and meeting anteriorly, the lateral margins a little 

 refiexed and strongly carinate ; clypeus shorter than face, obscurely 

 and laterally carinate ; pronotum narrow, tricarinate, anteriorly 

 a little centrally conically produced ; mesonotum large, tricarinate ; 

 legs of moderate length, posterior tarsi with the basal joint 

 incrassate ; tegmina moderately broad in structure and venation 

 generally as in Serida, wings differing from that genus by the 

 absence of the double series of transverse veins to the apical 

 area. 



ISUl. Jivatma nietallica, sp. n. 



Body and legs brownish-ochraeeous ; the carinations to head 

 and thorax and the lateral and segmental margins to abdomen 

 above paler ochraceous ; mesonotum with t\\o central longitudinal 

 piceous fascia) ; tegmina pale greyisli-hyaline. the claval and apical 



Fig. h'y'o. — Jiratina nic/Kl/ica, 



areas dull ochraceous with some irregular narrow pale fuscous 

 strife, several transverse piceous fasciae before apical margin, one 

 of which is moderately broad, the basal longitudinal venation with 

 minute fuscous spots ; wings greyish hyaline, the venation and 

 the postei'ior and apical areas dark fuliginous. 



Length excl. tegm. 5 ; exp. tegm. IG millim. 



Hah. Tenasserim, Myitta (Doherfi/). 



Genus KUSUMA, nov. 



Type, K. carinata, Dist. 



Distribution. British India. 



Head (including eyes) a little narrower than pronotum ; vertex 

 broad, the anterior and lateral margins upwardly carinate, its disk 

 concave, with an obsolete central longitudinal ridge ; face longer 

 than broad, a little aiupliated anteriorly, centrally and niarginally 

 ridged, its anterior margin moderately convex, its posterior margin 

 subtruncate ; clypeus subtriangular, broadly laterally and centrally 



