NARAYANA. 



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Genus NARAYANA, nov. 



Type, JV. rusticitatis, Dist. 



JJlstrlhution. British India. 



Head short, bro.id, including eyes as wide as pronotum ; vertex 

 broader than long, with a central median line, the anterior margin 

 a little concave ; face large, abont as broad as long, slightly 

 ampliately rounded towards clypeus, its margins carinate, its 

 surface somewhat transversely \A'rinkled, with a variously shaped 

 and more or less developed central discal tubercle, a subtnarginal 

 cariuation on each side truncately connected before anterior 

 margin and more prominently ti'ansversely connected before 

 clypeus ; eyes globose, very slightly sinuate posteriorly, antennae 

 inserted beneath them ; pronotum sjiort, anteriorly subangularly 

 produced, posteriorly truncate ; legs moderately short and stout ; 

 tegmina vertical, short and broad, costal margin moderately 

 convex, apical margin wide and obliquely truncate, the longi- 

 tudinal veins raised and sparsely furnished with small tubercles, 

 on apical half a number of well-defined transverse veins, iinier 

 margins concavely sinuate, convexly ampliate beyond claval area. 



1915. Narayana rusticitatis, sp. n. 



Head (including face) and the pronotum dull virescent, the latter 

 less virescent and more brownish ; mesonotum brownish-yellow 

 with a very slight virescent tint ; body and legs brownish- 

 ochraceous sprinkled \\ith fuscous ; tegmina brownish-ochraceous, 

 the venation a little darker and tinted with virescent at base ; 



Fig. 179. — Narayana rusticitafis. 



face virescent, the extreme lateral margins black, the disk between 

 the submarginal carinations palely fuscous, with a central ovate 

 depressed tuberculosity, from which two diverging carinate lines 

 proceed anteriorly, above and beneath the fuscous disk the surface 

 is strongly transversely wrinkled ; vertex medially depressed ; 

 pronotum obscurely centrally carinate ; tegmina somewhat strongly 

 depressed at the region of the clavus, on the raised margin behind 

 which there is a prominent transverse tubercle, the apex of the 

 inner margin convex, the colour of the tegmina is pale brownish- 

 ochraceous, much darker on about basal halt", especially on its outer 



