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Genus EGROPA. 

 Egropa, Melich. Horn. Fmin. Ceylon, jj. 82 (1903). 



Type, E. inusta, Melich. 



Distribution. Ceylon . 



" Vertex o£ head twice as broad as long, not passing the eyes, 

 broadly rounded in front and divided by a sharp keel from base of 

 face, posterior niargiti straight, lateral margins short, diverging in 

 front ; eyes semicircular, prominent ; face rhomboidal, at clypeus 

 half as broad as base, the lateral margins slightly curved inward, 

 disk of face consisting of two planes inclined toward each other, 

 the upper disk almost vertical and compressed in a semicircular 

 arch, the lower disk almost horizontal, on a side view there is a 

 distinct prominence at the middle of the upper facial margin : 

 clypeus broad and shortly triangular ; rostrum extending to middle 

 coxce ; antennte passing eyes, basal joint very short, second joint 

 nearly three times as long as broad, cylindrical ; pronotum rather 

 longer than vertex, broader than head, anteriorly broadly rounded, 

 posteriorly straight, at lateral margins obliquely truncated, disk 

 arched with a shallow transverse depression ; mesonotum one- 

 third longer tlian pronotum, sharply triangular, above Hat or 

 slightly arched ; tegmina like parchment, trans^'ersely arched and 

 owing to the costal margin being slightly impressed at base and 

 laminately overlapping in\^ardly is slightly directed downward, 

 the tegmina are also rounded apically, veins in corium verj^ indis- 

 tinct; legs short and strong, posterior tibiae unarmed." (Melichcir). 



Dr. Melichar has placed this genus at the end of the Issino', and 

 states that it belongs to the " Subtrib. Tettir/oritctrini,'' to which, 

 however, no reference is given. 



1947. Egropa inusta, Melich. Horn. Faun. Cci/lon, p. 82, I. iii, f. 1:5, a 

 (1903). 



" Body olive-green ; tegmina very finely sprinkled with red 



Fig. 191. — Egropa inusta. 



dots and speckles, giving them an appearance of being coloured 

 reddish-broM n : front margin of vertex darker and behind it 



