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FULGOEID.E. 



Genus ATRACIS. 



Atracis, Sf/d, Hem. Afr. iv, j). I'oO (186G) ; Atkins. J. A. S. Beny. 



\v, p. 81 (1880). 

 Flatoides, subgen. Atracis, Melicli. Ann. Ilufmtis. Wicn, xvii, p. 17-1 



Vl902). 



Type, A. pyralis., Giier., from the Malay Archipelago. 



Distribution. Oriental and Malayan Regions. Probably luore 

 widely distributed. 



Head (including eyes) narrower than pronotum ; vertex longer 

 than broad, sometimes distinctly foveate in front of eyes, or else 

 only moderately excavate between the ridged lateral margins ; 

 face considerably longer than broad, the anterior angles of the 

 lateral margins prominent or subprominent, smooth or sub- 

 obsoletely medially carinate ; pronotinn shorter or slightly shorter 

 than vertex of head, rounded or subtruncately rounded anteriorly ; 

 tegmina about twice, or very little more than twice, as long as 

 broad, the costal membrane three or four times as broad as radial 

 area, two longitudinal veins from upper end of cell both strongly 

 forked a little beyond base, a number of transverse veins before 

 apical area, (m which are transverse lines detining series of 

 longitudinal cellular areas, costal membrane more or less waved 

 and uneven ; posterior tibia) with one spine. 



2048. Atracis indica, Walk. (Elidiptera) List Horn, ii, p. 330 (1851) ; 

 Stal (Flatoides), Of v. Vet.-Ak. Fork. 1862, p. 489; Atkins. 

 J. A. S. Bemj. Iv, p. 79 (1886) ; Melicli. (Atracis) Ann. Hofnius. 

 Wien, xvii, p. 188, nee hg. (1902) ; id. Honi. Faun. Ceijhm, p. 91 

 (1903). 



Body and legs pale dull ochraceous ; tegmina ochraceous finely 

 mottled with fuscous-brown, each tegmen with a slightly curved 



transverse fuscous - brown fascia 

 just beyond latitude of posterior 

 angle of mesonotum ; vertex of 

 T /S£-^'*^S5\ f*'^^ head longer than broad, concave 



beyond latitude of eyes ; face 

 much longer than broad, nar- 

 rowed anteriorly, the basal mai-gin 

 rounded, with the anterior lateral 

 angles a little j^i'ominent, anterior 

 -Atracis indica. margin and a spot on each side of 



it fuscous-brown, a narrow central 

 brownish line and the posterior disk finely speckled with the 

 same colour; clypeus with a longitudinal series of oblique brown 

 striate lines on each side ; posterior tibia3 with a single spine ; 

 pronotum truncately rounded between eyes, with a prominent 

 central tubercle behind anterior margin, and very finely and 

 obscurely speckled with brown ; mesonotum (somewhat crushed 

 in type) with, some Aery fine brownish granules on disk ; tegmina 



