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defined ; clypeus yellow, with brown transverse stripes ; tegmina 

 above deep yellowish-green, elavus brown, and from its apex extends 

 posteriorly a tree-like branching brown narrow fascia terminating 

 in a longish spot, on onter margin beyond middle a brown line 

 \\hich is convex internally ; wings dirty-white ^^■ith brown veins ; 

 abdomen and legs brown." {Melichar.) 



" Length, $ , 12 miUim." 



Hah. Assam ; Khasia {fide Melichar). 



I have not seen this species. 



Genus FLATOIDES. 



Flatoides, Giier. Reyn. Anim., Ins. p. 362 (1838) ; Sta/, Hem. Afr. 

 iv, p. 248 (1866) ; Atkins, (part.) J. A. S. Bertff. Iv, p. 79 (1886) : 

 Melich. (part.) Ann. Hofmus. Wien, xvii, p. jl73 (1902): id. 

 (subgenus) torn. cil. p. 174 (1902). 



Type, F. toHrlv, Guer., from Cuba. 



Distribution. Apparently found throughout the principal zoo- 

 geographical regions. 



Dr. Melichar gives as the principal divisional character of this 

 genus from Atracis, the possessioii by the posterior tibiae of two 

 spines, while in Atracis they have only one. I have seen no 

 specimens from British India thus equipped, but Melichar has 

 described a species from Sikhim as a Flatoides, the diagnosis of 

 which I reproduce. 



As I have neither seen the type of tliis genus nor the species 

 which is described as representing it in British India, I have been 

 unable to include it in the synopsis of genera. 



2062. Flatoides servus, MeJich. Ann. Hofmns. IVien, xvii, p. 221 

 (1902). 



" Vertex a little broader than long, in front almost straiglitly 

 truncate, flat above, with a middle keel ^^■hich splits in front and 

 forms a small triangular impression ; face distinctly longer thaii 

 broad, at the upper frontal margin as broad as clypeus, broadest 

 in middle, laterally angulated outwards, the disk directed hori- 

 zontally downwards, smooth, with a distinct middle keel, anterior 

 lateral angles short, almost rounded, with several brown spots ; 

 antennae short ; mesonotum flattened, with sharp lateral keels 

 diverging anteriorly and a more obscure middle keel strongly 

 shortened posteriorly, several black spots on disk and two on each 

 side which are usually connected, two rather long spots on anterior 

 margin, and two round spots before apex ; tegmina broad, twice 

 as long as broad, costal membrane three or four times as broad as 

 radial area and traversed by simple, sometimes forked, and brown 

 punctured veins, the longitudinal and apical areas also locally 

 punctured ; in the whole corium are scattered small granules, 

 which form, especially behind basal cell and base of clavus, larger 

 masses ; the whole body as well as tegmina dirty-green, Mith 



