PAIVANAXA. 95 



darker ochraceous with some still darker shadings ; tegmina 

 greyish-white, the costal margin narrowly and very slightly darker 

 arid more ochraceous ; vertex of head in length more than half the 

 breadth between eyes, subconically produced anteriorly. 



Length incl. tegra. 3 millim. 



Hab. Calcutta far. Annandale). 



Genus PAIVANANA, nov. 



Type, P. indra, Dist. 



Distribution. Bengal. 



Vertex of head a little longer than breadth between eyes, which 

 are large and prominent, the anterior margin subangulate. with a 

 faint central impressed longitudinal line ; pronotum about half as 

 long as greatest breadth, a little rounded between eyes, posterior 

 margin truncate before scutellum and then obliquely straight to 

 lateral margins; scutellum subtriangular, considerably shorter 

 than pronotum ; face not quite twice as long as greatest breadth ; 

 tegmina nearly four times as long as broad, not extending much 

 beyond the abdominal apex. 



IITDEA. 



Typhlocyba indra, Dist. (vol. iv, p."415). 

 I originally included this species in the genus Typhlocyba, 



Fig. 56. Paicanana indra. 



though I see now that I ought to have separated it generically, 

 which I have here done and figured the typical species. 



