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and some very minor points of difference in the venation of the 

 tegmina ; in other characters the species is congeneric, and apart 

 from the spines on the posterior tibice may at once be separated 

 from F. granulata by the longitudinally striate pronotum. 



Genus NILALOHITA. 



Type, N. curculioides, Dist. 



Distrihution. Burma. 



Head (including eyes) distinctly narrower than pronotum, vertex 

 subquadrate, its margins ridged; face about twice as long as 

 broad, its base strongly angularly emarginate, a little ampliately 

 rounded before clypeus, centrally carinate, the carination becoming 

 evanescent before its apex, and with a subbasal transverse an- 

 gulated ridge ; clypeus large and broad, non-carinate ; pronotum 

 anteriorly angularly produced behind vertex, its posterior margin 

 truncate ; mesonotum slightly longer than pronotum (the question 

 as to a central carination undeterminable, owing to the typical 

 specimen being pinned at that section) ; legs long, posterior tibise 

 with five spines ; tegmina a little longer than the abdomen, about 

 twice as long as broad, the costal margin straight or somewhat 

 concavely sinuate, radinl vein bifurcating at a short distance from 

 base, upper longitudinal vein bifurcating near apex, between the 

 longitudinal veins which are prominent are situate a number of 

 irregular veinlets which give the tegmina a reticulate character. 



The Issus hneatus, Walk., from Borneo, is included in this 

 genus. 



027. Nilalohita ciirculioides, sp. n. 



Brownish-ochraceous ; vertex to head with the ridges (especially 



the lateral ones) somewhat 

 strong!}^ prominent, its disk 

 transversely striate ; face and 

 clypeus smooth, shining black, 

 their margins ochraceous (dis- 

 continuous on clypeus) ; pos- 

 terior femora, apical areas of 

 anterior and intermediate 

 femora, basal annulations and 

 apical areas of anterior and in- 

 termediate tibiae, and suli'usions 

 to abdomen beneath pale cas- 

 taneous ; tegmina reticulately 

 subcoriaceous, Avith a few 

 scattered piceous spots, base 

 of costal area and the trans- 

 verse reticulate veinlets pale 

 ochraceous; pronotum coarsely 

 granulate in each basal lateral 

 area, its lateral margins very finely spotted Avith fuscous : the 



Fif. 186. — Nil(floJ//k( curcuUoidc^ 



