446 EULGoniD-E. 



Genus KETUMALA, uov. 



Type, A', hlsecta, Ivirb.y. 



Distribution. Ceylon. 



Head (including eyes) narrower than pronotum ; vertex broad, 

 narrow, anteriorly subtruncate, a little anteriorly laterally ampliate, 

 the lateral margins strongly ridged ; face as broad as long, with a 

 short central carination not extending far from base, beyond 

 middle obliquely narrowed to clypeus, its lateral margins 

 moderately ridged ; pronotum strongly anteriorly produced ; 

 mesonotum without visible carinations ; tegmina about twice as 

 long as broad, costal margin arched at base, very slightly sinuate 

 before apex, apical margin truncate, posterior angle not produced, 

 costal membrane much wider than radial area, the first closely 

 coarsely transversely veiued, the latter sparsely transversely veined, 

 a curved line proceeding from end of radial area to about apex of 

 clavus, defining narrow, elongate, longitudinal, marginal, cellular 

 areas, disk without transverse veins, claval suture profound, clavus 

 thickly finely granulose ; wings at base about as broad as tegmina, 

 veins stout and prominent ; posterior tibiae apparently trispinose 

 (imperfectly seen in type). 



2042. Ketumala bisecta, Kirbi/ (Seliza), J. Linn. Soc, Zool. xxiv, 

 p. '[■r2, t. V, f. o (18ni); Melich. Ann. Hofmus. Wien, xvii, p, 141 

 (1902) ; id. Horn. Faun. Ceylon, p. 90 (1903). 



Head, face, clypeus, body beneath, and legs ochraceous ; base 

 of vertex and extreme base of face black : prouotum black with 



its lateral areas chocolate- 

 brown, its lateral margins 

 ochraceous ; mesonotum 

 chocolate-brown with a 

 broad central longitudinal 

 black fascia, the extreme 

 lateral margins ocbra- 

 Fig. 23S. — Ketumala Ijiiecta. ceous ; tegmina with the 



disk purplish-brown, the 

 costal membrane, radial area, apical margin, and clavus pale fuscous- 

 brown, the claval suture greyish- white, the granulations to clavus 

 piceous ; wings pale fuliginous, the veins piceous ; the lateral 

 margins of the vertex are ridged and pale ochraceous ; on the 

 apical margin of the tegmina the ground-colour between the 

 prominent veins is paler fuscous, the sutural margin wide and 

 prominent. 



Length excl. tegm. 5 ; exp. tegm. 15 milhm. 

 Hah. Ceylon ; Patalam ( Green). 



I only know this species by the unique type in the British 

 Museum, and have not seen another specimen. 



