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apex ; eyes dark castaneous or fuscous ; pronotum with two longi- 

 tudinal darker fasciae on each side of the central carination, which 

 is ochraceous : scutellum with a pale central carination and a 

 somewhat raised spot at each basal angle ; body beneath and legs 

 pale ochraeeous, the face with the apical area continued in oblique 

 fasciae on each side to base, piceous or black, and a dark fuscous 

 spot on each side near middle ; tegmina with the veins prominent 

 and usually paler than the ground coloration ; vertex of head, 

 pronotum and scutellum finely punctate; other structural characters 

 as in generic diagnosis. 



Length incl. tegm. 8|-9 millim. 



Hab. South India ; Kodaikanal (T. V. Campbell). 



Genus NIRVANA. (Vol. IV, p. 281.) 



NlRVANA GREENI. (Vol. IV, p. 283.) 



Add: Hab. South India; Nandidrug, Chikkaballapura (T. V. 

 Campbell). 



NIRVANA LONGITUDINALIS. (Vol. IV, p. 283.) 



Add : Hab. Burma; Amherst Distr., Kawkareik (F. H. Gravely). 



NIRVANA SUTURALIS. (Vol. IV, p. 284.) 



Add : Hab. South India; Kodaikanal, and Nilgiri 'Hills, Love- 

 dale (T. V. Campbell). E. Himalayas; Darjiling (Lynch). 



NIRVANA PALLIDA. (Vol. IV, p. 284.) 



Add: Hab. South India; Kodaikanal, Chikkaballapura (T. V. 

 Campbell). 



3537. Nirvana insignis, sp. n. 



Pale ochraceous, disk of vertex and the tegmina paler in hue ; 

 tegmina with four transversely oblique black lines on apical third 

 of costal area and a discal black spot just before apex ; body 

 beneath and legs a little darker ochraceous than above ; vertex of 

 head about as lung as pronotum and scutellum together, the lateral 

 margins ridged, the apex subacute ; face centrally longitudinally 

 ridged, the lateral areas finely obliquely striate. 



Length incl. tegm. 5 millim. 



Hab. Travancore. 



This species is more closely allied to N. koreana, Matsum., from 

 Korea (Trans. Sapp. N. H. Soc. v. p. 171, Taf. 1, fig. 12, 1915). 



Genus OPHIUCHUS, nov. 



Type, 0. princeps, Dist. 



Distribution. British India ; Madras Province. 

 Vertex of head spatulate, about as long as pronotum and 

 scutellum together, the lateral margins straight for a short 



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