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2065. Gaja facialis, sp. n. 



Body and legs greyish-brown, apical half of abdomen pale 

 piceous ; tegmiiia dull greyish, much suffused with pale fuscous 

 and with scattered minute fuscous spots ; wings very pale fuligi- 

 nous with the veins fuscous ; vertex slightly longer than breadth 



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Fig. 250. — Gaja facialis. 



between eyes, with a central line and the lateral margins fuscous ; 

 face very long, twice as long as broad, with its central area more 

 or less fuscous, anteriorly promiuentl}' narrowed where the margins 

 are fuscous ; pronotum greyish, thickly finely granulose ; meso- 

 notum with two dark central longitudinal fasciae. 



Length excl. tegm. 7 ; exp. tegm. 19 millim. 



Hah. Ceylon; Slaskeliya (^Vet^n). 



This species is to be recognized by the very elongate face, in 

 which respect it seems allied to the species described by Melichar 

 as Atracis suhtilis, which, however, is stated to have the vertex 

 twice as long as breadth between eyes, and the face three or four 

 times as long as broad. 



2066. Gaja ? SUbtilis, Melich. (Atracis) Ann. Ilofmus. Wien, xvii, 

 p. lUo (1902) ; id. Horn. Faun. Ceylon, p. 92 (1903). 



" Very like ^xirva, Ivirby, but particularly recognizable by the 

 long vertex and longer face ; vertex twice as long as breadth 

 between eyes, conically narrowed in front and somewhat directed 

 upward, with a medial brown longitudinal stripe and with broNAiiish 

 spots on each side which also form longitudinal fasciae, anterior 

 lateral angles broad, acutely angular, with a brown dash ; face 

 narrow, three or four times as long as broad, moderately ai-ched 

 and marbled with light pale brown, lateral margins parallel and 

 sharpened ; pronotum medially as long as vertex, produced ante- 

 riorly into folds, slightly spotted with brown ; mesonotum with 

 distinct lateral keels and flattened between them, spotted with 

 brown, the spots mostly forming longitudinal lines ; teginina as 

 long as in parva^ narrow, pale yellowish-white with yellow veins 

 locally punctured with brown, radial area narrovi, costal membrane 

 three or four times as broad as radial area, traversed by simple 



