740 Mr. W. L. Distant on 



greenisli ocliraceous, a broad transverse piceous fascia be- 

 tween the eyes, and the clypeus also of the latter colour ; 

 body beneath almost entirely piceous, the legs ochraceous, 

 femora (excluding apices) piceous ; tegmina hyaline, the 

 veins brownish with minute setose piceous spots, the 

 transverse veins prominently fuscous brown, costal margin 

 witli transverse piceous spots, basal area and the area of the 

 inner transverse veins more or less bronzy brown; wings 

 sliuhtly pale fuliginous, the veins darker. 



Long., excl. tegm., 4^ mm. ; exp. tegm. 11 ^ mm. 



JJab. Ceylon ; Trincoraalee {Greeriy Brit. Mus.). 



Adolenda, gen. nov. 



Vertex somewhat triangular, the margins strongly ridged, 

 the angles of the face visible from above ; face long and 

 slender, narrowest between eyes and distinctly projecting 

 above them, the margins strongly ridged, a distinct ocellus 

 before clypeus, which is short and strongly, centrally, and 

 laterally ridged ; pronotum very short, the lateral areas a 

 little ampliate, the posterior margin strongly angularly 

 emarginate ; mesonotum a little longer than head and pro- 

 notum together, tricarinate, the lateral carinations oblique ; 

 abdomen moderately broad and robust; legs slender, posterior 

 tibia3 unarmed ; tegmina three times as long as broad, costal 

 membrane broad and unveined, at its apex a cell enclosing 

 stigma, beneath this three distinct subapical cells, beyond 

 these a central longitudinal cell reaching apex, on each side 

 of which are connected oblique cells, claval vein not reaching 

 apex of clavus ; wings broader and shorter than tegmina, 

 two transverse veins on disk and two apical triangular 

 cells. 



Allied to the Neotropical genus CEcleus, Stal. 



Adolenda ti/pica, sp. n. 



Vertex, pronotum, and mesonotum brownish ochraceous, 

 margins of vertex and pronotum, and margins and carinations 

 to mesonotum, dull ochraceous ; abdomen above piceous, 

 narrowly ochraceous at base; head, sternum, and legs ochra- 

 ceous ; abdomen beneath piceous ; tegmina hyaline, tiie 

 veins piceous and with the following fuscous-brown spots : 

 a stigmatal spot, two below costal membrane, the outermost 

 connected with a short curved fascia which extends sub- 

 marginally round posterior half of vertex, and three spots on 

 inner margin, the basal one largest ; wings hyaline, the 

 veins darker. 



Long., excl. tegm., 4 mm. ; exp. tegm. 11 mm. 



Bah. Simla (Brit. Mus.). 



