ATRACIS. 



457 



extreme costal edge ochraceous ; vertex of bead much longer than 

 broad, its apex rouuded and the anterior lateral angles acutely 

 produced, a minute black spot at inner margin of each eye ; face 

 very long, anteriorly sinuately narrowed in front of eyes, the 

 lateral margins acutely prominent before tip, which is rounded and 

 marked with minute piceous spots or dots, transversely impressed 

 before clypeus ; posterior tibiae with a single spine ; pronotum 

 shorter than vertex and anteriorly truncate ; mesonotum (excluding 

 the black carinate fasciae) smooth ; costal membrane about four 

 times the breadth of radial area. 



Length inch tegm. 22 millim. 



ffaJj. Malabar (Coll. Dlst.). 



2058. Atracis fimbria, Walk. (Elifliptera) List Horn, ii, p. 331 (1851) ; 

 Atldns. (Flatoides) J. A. S. Benf/. Iv, p. 80 (1886) ; Melich. 

 (Atracis) Ann. Hofmus. Wien, xvii, p. 199 (1902). 



Body and legs ochraceous ; tegmina dull ochraceous, the costal 

 membrane only minutely spotted witli brown on the transverse 

 veins, beneath the radial area more distinctly mottled or spotted 

 with the same colour ; wings sordid creamy-white, the venation 

 darker ; vertex longer than broad, with a distinct central carination, 

 narrowed anteriorly, the margins ridged and with a transverse 

 ridge nenr base ; face longer than broad, narrowed from eyes to 

 base, which is a little thickened, lateral margins moderately ridged; 

 posterior tibise with a single spine ; pronotum a little shorter than 



Fig. 247. — Atracis fimhria. 



vertex, medially carinate and laterally ridged, the lateral areas 

 foveate ; mesonotum with a black sublateral fascia on each side ; 

 tegmina with the costal membrane about four times wider than 

 the radial area, the radial vein very prominent and sinuate, 

 the edge of the costal membrane somewhat uneven but not erosed, 

 the clavus at posterior base fuscously granulose. 



Length excl. tegm. 11 ; exp. tegm. 27 millim. 



Hah. Sylhet {Brit. Mus.). 



I only know this species by the unique type, which is here 

 figured. 



