MELICHARIA. 



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apical area, the outermost Dearly obliquely straight defining a 

 series of narrow longitudiual marginal cellular areas, broadest 

 near posterior angle, the inner transverse line less well defined ; 

 clavus ^^ith very obsolete scarcely discernible transverse veins in 

 its upper area, strongly granulose beneath claval vein ; wings 

 broader than tegraina, with two transverse veins near apex and 

 some of the longitudinal veins outwardly furcate. 



2024. Melicharia quadrata, Kirby (Pceciloptera), J. Linn. Soc, Zool. 



xxiv, p. ir)4. t. vi, f. 8 (1891) ; Melich. (Ormenis) Ann. Hofmus. 

 Wien, xvii, p. 84 (1902) : id. Horn. Faun. Ceylon, p. 90 (1903). 

 Melicharia. sinlialana, 7\.7/7t'. Entomologist, xxxiii, p. 205 (1900). 



Head (including face), thorax above, clypeus, and legs pale 

 green ; abdomen, apices of tibise, and the tarsi pale brownish- 

 ochraceous ; tegmina pale green, extreme costal, apical, and outer 

 third of posterior margins testaceous ; wings creamy-white ; radial 

 vein of tegmina strongly sinuate towards base, the venation to 

 radial area being subobsolete on basal half ; vertex of head with 

 the central and lateral carinations very prominent and acute, the 

 lateral angles distinct ; clypeus with two central fasciae formed of 

 short oblique testaceous strise ; central ridge to face very 

 promiiaent, but scarcely reaching from base to middle, lateral 

 margins broadly reflexed ; abdomen above with a short oblique 

 black linear spot on each side of apex, anal appendage centrally 

 linearly piceous. 



Length excl. tegm. Ih ; exp. tegra. 22 milhm. 



Hah. Assam ; Margherita {Dohertii). Trivandrum {Coll. Dist.). 

 Ceylon ; Pundaluoya, Ivandy, Peradeniya {Green). 



2025. Melicharia lutescens. Walk. (Pceciloptera) List Horn. Suppl. 



p. 117 (1858) ; Stdl (Flata), Ofv. Vet.-Ak. Fork. 1862, p. 490 ; 

 Atkins. J. A. S. Benfj. Iv, p. '72 (1886) ; Melich. (Paratella) 

 Ann. Hofmus. Wien, xvii, p. 122 (1902). 



Body and legs ochraceous ; in fresh specimens the prouotum is 



Fig. 22(5. — Melicharia lutescens *. 

 ornamented with t\\ o longitudinal central testaceous fasciae ; 



* In the above figure the transverse veins iu upper claval area appear 

 far too prominent, they are practically obsolete. 



