DICBAXOTROPIS. 



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above clavus, globular apices to longitudinal veins, and the veins 

 on apical area black, prominent greyish-white spots on apical- 

 costal and apical margins, most of them more or less margined 

 with piceous-black, the ground-colour of the apical area is also 

 dull dark ochraceous ; abdomen above black with the segmental 



Fig. 264. — Smara festicct. 



margins ochraceous, beneath more prominently ochraceously 

 marked ; legs more or less piceous, apices of femora and tibiae 

 and the tarsi stramineous ; antennae ochraceous, piceous at base ; 

 tegmina sparingly distinctly longly pilose, almost hirsute. 



Length excl. tegm. 3 ; exp. tegm. <S niillim. 



Hab. Ceylon ; Pundaluoya (Green). 



2084. Smara atrata, sp. n. 



Head, pronotum, aud mesouotum coloured and marked as 

 in >S'. f estiva : face with the basal spot smaller, and the apical spot 

 more centrally divided by the longitudinal carinatiou ; clypeus 

 black ; tegmina uniformly piceous, with two short, oblique, virescent 

 stripes at extreme base and with the transverse vein before apical 

 area somewhat suffused with greyish ; abdomen piceous ; legs 

 darker than in -S. festiva. Beside the different colour of the 

 tegmina compared with those of the preceding species, the surface 

 is more even, the veins less prominent but more distinctly granu- 

 lose, they are also much less, in fact only obscurely, pilose ; the 

 face is more distinctly centrally carinate than in S. festiva. 



Length excl. tegm. 2g ; exp. tegm. 7 millim. 



Hab. Tenasserim ; Alyitta {Dolierty). 



Genus DICRANOTROPIS. 



Dicranotropis, Fieb. Delph. Verh. z.-b. ges. Wien, xvi, p. o21 (1866) ; 

 id. Cic. Rev. Sf Maq. Zool. (3) iii, p. 378 (1875) ; Melich. Hovi. 

 Faun. Ceylon, p. 106 (1903). 



Type, D. liamata. Boh., a Palaearctic species. 



Distribution. Palaearctic and Oriental Regions. 



"This genus is recognizable by the long triangular face, which is 

 distinctly laterally and medially keeled, the two middle keels 

 proceeding from vertex unite at middle disk in one stem ; antennae 



