386 



FULGOIlID.i:. 



Geuus PRIVESA. 



Privesa, Stal, Rio Jan. Hem. ii, p. 70 (1858) ; MelicJi. Ann. Hof)nus. 



Wien, xiii, p. 282 (1898). 

 Dechitus, Walk. Journ. Ent. i, p. 311 (1862). 



Type, P. Icevifrons, Stfil, from Madagascar and Mauritius. 



Distribution. Ethiopian, Oriental, and Australasian Regions. 



Head (including eyes) about as broad as pronotum, anterior 

 margin rounded in front of eyes and with a transverse subconvex 

 ridge between eyes ; face broader than long with a central cari- 

 nation ; clypeus centrally ridged ; pronotum centrally ridged ; 

 mesonotura with three longitudinal carinations, the lateral ones 

 anteriorly inwardly forked ; tegmina near apex or near apical 

 area with a transverse series of irregular transverse veins ; longi- 

 tudinal veins emitted from tlie basal cell, the third furcate ; 

 posterior tibiae bispinose. 



1975. Privesa delecta, Melich. Ann. Ilvfmm. Wien, xiii, p. 285 (1898). 



"Eace narrowed to clypeus, yellowish-white, smoothly flat, 

 middle ridge distinct, almost extending to apex, lateral ridges 



indistinct, a narrow transverse brown 

 fascia at upper frontal margin, at 

 suture of face and clypeus is an 

 indistinct brown central spot and on 

 both sides of it another brown spot ; 

 clypeus yellowish-white with a cen- 

 tral ridge ; pronotum with a longi- 

 tudinal ridge, on each side of which 

 is a compressed point ; mesonotum 

 rusty-brown, sometimes paler on disk, 

 with three longitudinal I'idges, the 

 lateral ones shortly forked in front, 

 the inner fork united with the central 

 ridge before anterior margin ; tegmina 

 pale yellowish, with blackish-brown spots and three liyaline costal 

 spots, the first and third almost of equal size, the central one 

 largest ; apical margin sprinkled with very small pale speckles ; 

 wings vitreous, posterior margin fuliginous ; sternum and legs 

 pale yellowish." (MelicJinr.) 



" Length excl. tegm. 6| ; exp. tegm. 19 millim." 

 Hab, Bombay (Paris Mus.). 



I am indebted to Prof. Bouvier, of the Paris Museum, for the 

 opportunity of figuring this species. 



198. — Privesa ddceta. 



1976. Privesa confinis, sp. n. 



Body and legs pale castaneous-brown ; mesonotum more or less 

 sufiused with piceous, sometimes principally denoted by a large 



