BRAHMALOKA. 



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1897. Tatva bufo, sp. n. 



Body and legs pale browuish-ocliraceous ; vertex of head with 

 two small fuscous spots at base ; tegniina obscure talc-like, sub- 

 coriaceous, the venation ochraceous, two obscure broken oblique 

 fuscous fasciae on each tegmen, and some transverse fuscous spots 



on each claval area ; wings semi- 

 hyaliue, very pale fuliginous, the 

 venation fuscous ; vertex of head 

 granulose, with a faint central 

 longitudinal carination ; face granu- 

 lose, speckled with pale fuscous ; 

 clypeus ochraceous, its lateral ai'eas 

 (WV\f //f''/ ill^U'^'l !l ^ obliquely striate; apices of tibiae 

 ^^\}w//w tVrSJW'il piceous ; tegmiua with a number of 



small cells on apical area ; pronotum 

 sparingly palely granulose, its mar- 

 gins strongly ridged and with a 

 faint central longitudinal carina- 

 tion ; mesonotum with two short ridges near each anterior angle, 

 between which the colour is dull castaneous, two small spots of 

 the same colour on disk. 

 Length o^ millim, 

 flah. Bombay (Brit. 2Ii(s.). ' 



Tafva hufo. 



Genus BRAHMALOKA, nov. 



Type, B. Iiowrinr/i, Dist. 



Distribution. Assam. 



Head (including eyes) as broad as pronotum ; vertex broader 

 than long, truncate anteriorly, moderately concave, its edges 

 carinate ; face about as broad as long, centrally straightly finely 

 carinate and submarginally convexly carinate, the lateral margins 

 also slightly ridged, the basal margin truncate, not concave, a little 

 emarginate before clypeus ; clypeus laterally transversely obliquely 

 striate; pronotum about as long as mesonotum, anteriorly angu- 

 larly medially produced, posteriorly truncate, with a central tine 

 longitudinal carination; mesonotum tricarinate ; legs short and 

 robust, posterior tibias with two spines ; tegmiua with the margins 

 parallel, not ampliated towards apex, apical margin truucately 

 rounded, longitudinal veins prominent, more or less transversely 

 veined over their whole area, costal area very broad, transversely 

 A'eined, a series of transverse veins near apex defining an apical 

 marginal area containing a few longitudinal veins. 



1898. Brahmaloka bowringi, sp. n. 



Body, legs, and tegmiua browuish-ocliraceous; face discally 

 suffused with piceous; the oblique lateral striae to clypeus casta- 

 neous ; apex of rostrum piceous ; abdomen castaneous-brown 



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