SARDIA. 475 



Genus SARDIA. 

 Sardia, Melich. Horn. Faun. C'eijlon, p. 9G (1908). 



Type, S. rostrata, Melich. 



Distribution. Ceylon. 



"Head and eyes narrower than pronotum ; vertex narrow, three 

 times as long as breadth bet\\een eyes, where it is narrowed, 

 sides nearly parallel and finely keeled, anterior margin straightly 

 truncate ; face somewhat long, narrow, contracted beneath eyes 

 and then slightly broadened at sides, finely keeled ; clypeus 

 triangular, laterally and medially keeled ; eyes elongately oval, 

 sessile, concave beneath ; antennae passing eyes, basal joint 

 cylindrical, second pint rather longer, weakly clavate ; ocelli 

 present, small, situate at frontal border of eyes ; pronotum half 

 as loDg as vertex, anteriorly straightly truncate, posteriorly 

 concave, with three long keels, the lateral ones bent outwardly ; 

 mesonotum large, slightly arched, tricarinate, lateral keels con- 

 verging in front, apex of mesonotum lengthened and rounded ; 

 tegmina very long, twice as long as the whole body, not widened 

 behind and rather obliquely apically rounded, three longitudinal 

 veins in corium, the outer and inner ones forked at basal third, 

 four apical veins, the second double, the fourth singly forked, 

 tegminal ceils very long, especially second middle one, a forked vein 

 in clavus the base of which extends to vhe apex which does not 

 reach the last transverse vein, between which and apex of clavus 

 there is a space equal to one-third the length of clavus ; abdomen 

 rather flattened ; legs slender, posterior tibiae with two spines, 

 posterior tarsi with the basal joint longer than the other two 

 together and with a large dentated mobile spur at base." 

 {Melicliar.) 



:3080. Sardia rostrata, Melich. Ilom. Faun. Ceylon, p. 96, t. ii, f. 4, 

 a, b (1903). 



" Vertex of head rusty-yellow, spotted with brown at middle of 

 apex and neck ; eyes brown ; face black, between the eyes some- 

 times yellowish except at apex, lateral and middle keels j^ellowish ; 

 antennae yellow with a black spot at base ; gente and clypeus black 

 keeled with yellow, the flattened middle keel with three black 

 spots at apex which are often confluent, and on upper margin 

 ])rovided with two black spots visible on side view ; pronotum 

 black, its posterior margin narrowly bordered with white, on front 

 margin two contiguous rusty- yellow spots which are sometimes 

 absent ; mesonotum rusty-brown, its apex yellowish, two longi- 

 tudinal brown streaks on sides and underlying brown spots before 

 the apex ; in the 6 the colour is darker ; vertex, pronotum 

 (except the pale posterior border), and mesonotum piceous, only 

 apex of mesonotum yellowish ; tegmina clouded with brown, darker 

 on apical area, with pale marginal spots between the ends of the 



