PUCINA. 



:393 



lateral ridges ; teginiiia gradually slightly amplified towards tlie 

 apex, furnished towards the apex with oblong areolas arranged in 

 two series and with many areolas less regularly arranged on disk, 

 ulnar and radial veins forked somewhat before the middle of the 

 corium ; anterior tibioe hardly longer than the femora and tro- 

 chanters, posterior tibia) bispinose." (>Stcd.) 



1983. Pucina pellucida, Guer. (Cixius) Vot/. ' Coquille; Zool. W, p. 189 

 (1830) ; id. Icoti. lik/n. Anitn., Ins. p. 358, t. Iviii, f. 4 (1843) ; 

 Spin. (Ricaiiia) Ami. Sue. Ent. Fr. 1839, p. 401; SW 

 (Pucina), Bcrl. ent. Zeitschr. x, p. 393 (1866) ; Atki7is. J. A. S. 

 Beng. Iv, p. 63 (1886) ; Melich. Attn. Hofmus. Wien, xiii, 

 p. 329, t. xiv, f. 15, a, b (1898). 



" Head yellowish with three ridges ; face three times longer 

 than broad, strougly margined and with a median ridge : vertex 



3 '"^ 4 U 5 



Fig. 202. — Pucina pcllucicla. 



broader than long, disk flat and horizontal, margins elevated, fine, 

 anterior margin obtusely angular, its tip extended a little beyond 

 the eyes, posterior margin angularly einarginate ; thorax varied 

 with green and brown, also the abdomen, M'hich is shorter than 

 broad ; tegmina and wings ti'ansparent, veins brown, with a brown 

 triangular dot on the anterior marofin of each tegrmen and near its 

 apex, radial vein weakly arcuate, subradial straight, rejoining the 

 radial towards the second third on the anterior margin, the inter- 

 mediate space with eight transverse subparallel veins and divided 

 into nine fairly large cellules, of which the seven intermediate are 

 as broad as long, the two extreme longer than broad, the adjoining- 

 space between the radial and cubital veins divided iiito two large, 

 narrow, elongate cellules by a complete ti"ansverse vein ; legs 

 yellowish, tarsi brown, posterior tibia? with two lateral spines." 



Length 6; exp. tegm. 16 millim. 



Hah. Bengal \ficle Guer.). — Java (fide Guer.). Australia (fide 

 Jlelichar). 



I have not seen this species, and have reproduced the figs. 1 

 and ti from Melichar ; 3, 4, and 5 from Gueriu. 



