344 FCLGORID.E. 



t\\o concavities ; face scarcely longer than breadth at clypeus. 

 rather narrowed bet\^'een eyes, finely and thickly punctured, not 

 marked, greenish-yellow or yellowish-brown, with a central ridge 

 extending to its middle and a transverse ridge running close 

 below its basal margin and parallel to it, the ends curved down 

 near outer borders of the face, narrow space between this trans- 

 verse ridge and the facial margin dark brown ; tegmina rather 

 long and narrow, semitransparent, transverse veins in hinder area 

 thicker, in the front half only some isolated transverse veins 

 other characters as in S. illihata. 



" Length 6 to 6| millim." 



Mab. Ceylon (Jide Melkliar). 



Among the specimens which have passed through my hands, I 

 have not found one that definitely agrees with the above diagnosis ; 

 I have therefore reproduced what 1 believe are the salient points 

 from Dr. Melichar's description. 



190S. Sarima cretata, sp. n. 



Head, pronotum, mesonotum, and tegmina castaneous-brown ; 

 body beneath and legs yellowish or pale virescent ; vertex of head 

 and face either virescent or very pale testaceous-brown, the latter 

 with the central carination becoming evanescent before apex ; 

 tegmina with the base obliquely pale ochraceous, at about centre 

 of costal area a large semihyaline whitish spot outwardly narrowly 

 margined with pale ochraceous and from the end of the spot to 

 the apex the costal area is pale ochraceous ; on the disk of each 

 teo-men there are a few prominent cretaceous tomentose spots, 

 of which the principal are three in transverse curved series a little 

 beyond the middle, and a cluster of smaller and more obscure 

 spots on apical area ; sides of face and the abdomen beneath 

 rather strongly virescent ; other characters resembling those of 

 aS'. illihata. 



Length inch tegm, 5k millim. 



Bab. Ceylon ; Pundaluoya (Green). 



Genus GIVAKA, nov. 



Type, G. hampsoni., Dist. 



Distribulion. British India. 



Head (including eyes) about as wide as pronotum ; vertex 

 moderately porrect, somewhat longly and triangularly produced in 

 front of eyes, with an obsolete median carination, the lateral 

 margins distinctly ridged ; face somewhat obliquely convex, 

 narrowest at base, widened posteriorly, smooth, margins slightly 

 ridged, with a fine central median carination ; clypeus semiglobose ; 

 legs moderately short, posterior tibiae with two spines ; pronotum 

 short, convexly arched anteriorly, truncate posteriorly, faintly 

 centrallv cariuate ; tegmina placed in an obliquely vertical position, 

 narrowed to apices, which are truncately rounded, costal margin 



