466 



rULGOEID^. 



B. Head more or less longly produced in front 

 eyes. 



a. Vertex of bead three times as long as 



breadth between eyes Sabdia, p. 475. 



b. Vertex of head much less than three times 



as long as breadth between ej'es. 



a. Face almost three times as long as 



broad at clypeus Ohchesma, p. 47G. 



b. Face not quite twice as long as broad 



at clypeus Smaea, p. 478. 



Thb genera iJicmnotrojns, Lihurnia, Mestus, and Eodel2'>liax are 

 enumerated but not included in the above synopsis, as I have not 

 been able to examine the British Indian species which have been 

 included in them. 



Genus PARANDA. 

 Paranda, Melich. Horn. Fmin. Ceylon, p. 92 (1903). 



Type, P. glohiceps, MeUch. 



Distribution. Ceylon. 



" Head as broad as pronotum : vertex broad, convex, anteriorly 

 rotundately rounded : face semicircular, arched, between the eyes 

 half as broad as at clypeus, which is triangular, horizontal, keeled 

 at middle and sides ; eyes very flat, appressed, seen from side 

 reniform ; antennje long, basal joint three times as long as broad, 

 second joint twice as long as first with a short bristle, an ocellus 

 near anterior margin of eye ; pronotum narrow, flatly concave 

 behind ; tegulae large ; mesonotum triangular, arched, with five 

 longitudinal keels, the middle ones strongly converging in front ; 

 tegmina some^^■hat \a idened behind, parchment-like, with indis- 

 tinct veins, the apical part divided by a transverse fold from the 

 corium, cu.rved downward, membranous, traversed by many simple 

 veins, three visible longitudinal veins in corium, the outer one in 

 middle of corium forked, a forked vein in clavus ; wings hyaline ; 

 legs simple, posterior tibise with two spines, basal joint of pos- 

 terior tarsi almost twice as long as the two others together, at 

 base of tarsi a movable spur. 



" A genus specially characterized by the semicircular shape of 

 the head and the very flat appressed eyes, as well as by the very 

 long flat antennije." {MelicJiar.) 



2070. Paranda globiceps, MeUch. Horn. Faun. Ceylon, p. 93, t. iii, 

 f. 10, a (1903). 



" Black, shining ; vertex and face semicircular, thickly and finely 

 punctured, black, shining with bluish, with an indistinct middle 

 keel on the surface of face; clypeus dull yellowish-white, the 

 tip yellow to brown, antennae and legs brown ; pronotum 

 and mesonotum shining black, the apex of mesonotum pale 



