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FULGORID.i;. 



fascioe; vertex o£ head smooth, a httle concave; pronotuin with a 



.series of very small pale fuscous 

 tubercles on its lateral margins, 

 central carination distinct ; meso- 

 iiotum pale chocolate-brown, the 

 lateral angles and apex much paler, 

 the carinatious distinct, its anterior 

 margin distinctly finely ridged ; 

 legs a little spotted and streaked 

 with fuscous ; tegmina with the 

 longitudinal veins raised, obsoletely 

 mottled with paler coloration. 



Var. Paler and more concolorous 

 than the typical form (siqira) ; 



tegmina without the piceous oblique fascite ; mesonotum paler and 



more concolorous. 



Length inch tegm. 5 millim. 



Hab. Ceylon ; Trincomali (Mas. Ilongrois). 



I have again to acknowledge my obligatiou to Dr. Horvath, of 



the Budapest Museum, for allowing me to examine and figure a 



typical example of this species. 



Fig. 173. 



H[/sfcroptcn(m snhfasciu! i',:i. 



1905. Hysteropterum fusculura, MeJkh. Ilom. Faun. Ceylon, p. 77 

 (1903). 



" Tellowish-brown ; vertex of head twice as broad as long, in 

 front straightly truncate, augulated and deepened above ; face 

 distinctly longer, widened and rouudtid to clypeus, with a distinct 

 central percurreut carination ; face unicolorous, brownish ; pro- 

 notum as long as vertex, anterior margin obtusely angularly 

 produced, posterior margin straight, deepened above into a groove 

 with several smooth granules ; mesonotum with three indistinct 

 longitudinal carinatious ; tegmina moderately long, broadly 

 rounded off behind, with three longitudinal veins, the outer 

 forked at base, and the other two forked at middle of corium, the 

 veins connected by numerous paler transverse veins ; wings 

 fuliginous ; bodv beneath and legs brownish-yellow." {Melicliar.) 



Length 5 millim. 



Hah. Ceylon {Mm. Berlin). 



I have failed to apply the above description to any specimen 

 which has hitherto passed through my hands. 



Genus SARIMA. 



Sai'ima, Melicli. Horn Fcutii. Ceylon, p. 78 (1903). 



Type, S. illihata. Melicti. 

 Distribution. Ceylon. 



Head (including eyes) as wide as prouotum ; vertex subquadran- 

 gular, its base angularly emarginate, its margins ridged and with 



