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ruLGoniD.?:. 



somewhat strongly ridged ; pronotum shorter than vertex, uot 

 prominently medially ridged ; mesonotum obscurely tricarinate ; 

 tegmina narrow, a little more than twice as long as broad, the 

 costal margin arched at base and soinewhat strongly sinuate 

 before apex, apical margin truncate, the apical and posterior 

 angles rounded, posterior margin sinuate before its apex, costal 

 membrane scarcely or very little wider than radial area, the first 

 closely transversely ^"eined, the latter with only a few transverse 

 veins commencing near middle, costal and radial veins considerably 

 curved, the radial vein prominent, two longitudinal veins emitted 

 from upper end of basal cell both strongly furcate before middle, 

 disk beyond middle and before apical area reticulately veined, 

 thence the veins are longitudinal, forming narrow but elongate 

 cellular marginal areas and traversed by a medial line formed of 

 transverse veins ; wings a little broader than tegmina. 



2040. Gomeda abdominalis, ATrZ*// (Phalfenomorpha?), J. Linn. Soc, 

 Zool. xxiv, p. ir,l, t. V, f. 16 (1891) ; Melic/t. (Ormenis) Ann. 

 Hofnius. Wien, xa ii, p. 75 (1902) ; id. Horn. Faun. Ceylon, 

 p. 90 (1903). 



Body and legs ochraceous ; abdomen with an oblique fuscous 

 lateral fascia on each side ; tegmina very pale umber-brown, the 

 venation (especially the bases of the radial and upper longitudinal 

 veins) darker, a large greyish costal subapical spot and the apical 

 marginal area between the veins also greyish, the transverse veins 

 to the costal membrane are brownish but become ochraceous 



Fig. 236. — Goiiuda nhJouiiiicdis. 



beyond middle ; ^iugs pale creamy- white ^ith the veins palely 

 fuscous ; head with the apex of vertex a little tuberculously 

 prominent ; lateral margins to face and a central fascia to clypeus 

 a little paler ; tegmina with the radial area a little gibbous near 

 base, clavus above claval vein closely transversely ridged, its 

 posterior area somewhat finely granulose. 



Length excl. tegm. 6 : exp. tegm. 17 to 18 millim. 



Hah. Nilgiri Hills (Ham^tson) . Ceylon (Green). 



Genus FARONA. 

 Faroua, Melich. Ann. Hofmus. Wien, xvii, p. 142 (1902). 



Type, F. fuscipennis, Melich. 



Distribution. Oriental Kegion. 



Head (including eyes) considerably narrower than pronotum ; 



