460 



rULGOKID.5:. 



several large irregular pitcby-brown spots ; M'ings milky-wbite ; 

 abdomen aud legs dirty-green." (Melichar.) 



" Lengtb 17; exp. tegni. 32 raillim." 



JIah. Sikbim (Jide Melichar). 



Genus GAJA, nov. 



Type, G. definitiva, Dist. 



Distrihution. Ceylon, according to present knowledge, but 

 probably miicb more widely distributed. 



Head (including eyes) considerably narrower tban pronotnin ; 

 vertex as long or a little longer than broad, more or less concave, 

 its apical area curved upward, lateral margins carinate, but the 

 anterior lateral angles not, or only slightly, prominent; face about 

 one and a half times, sometimes twice, as long as broad, its lateral 

 margins parallel or subparallel, anteriorly narrowed, medially 

 carinate or subcarinate ; clypeus elongate ; pronotum about as 

 long as vertex, its anterior margin rounded, its posterior margin 

 angularly sinuate ; mesonotum bicarinate ; tegmina moderately 

 flat, more than twice, nearly three times, as long as broad, the 

 anterior and posterior margins parallel, apical margiji rounded, 

 costal membrane three or four times as bi-oad as radial area, the 

 iirst closely and distinctly transversely veined, the latter more 

 obscurely and sparsely transversely veined, two prominent longi- 

 tudinal veins emanating from basal cell, both strongly forked at a 

 short distance from base, the whole discal area more or less trans- 

 versely veined, except on apical area, where the veins are longi- 

 tudinal and where there is a submarginal line formed of short 

 transverse veins, inner area of clavus sparingly transversely veined, 

 posterior area obliquely thickly granulose at base ; wings broader 

 than tegmina, most of the longitudinal veins outwardly I'urcate. 



2063. Gaja definitiva, sp. u. 



Body fuscous-brown, pronotum aud legs brownish-ochraceous ; 

 tegmina very pale brownish-ochraceous, with fuscous-brown spots, 



Fig. 248. — GaJa dffinitiva. 



of which the three largest are on costal membrane, about live 

 prominent but smaller on disk, with some irregular macular 



