FAM. MEMBRACID^ 



23l 



223. GENUS TELINGANA Distant 



Telingana Distant, Faun. Brit. Ind. 17 (igoy). 



Characters : A distinct and vvell known genus characterized particularly by the long, 

 tricarinate, decurved posterior process which arises low on the pronotum but does not touch the scutellum 

 and by the long narrow scutellum. Head subquadrate, roughly sculptured, about twice as broad as 

 high; base strongly arcuate and sinuate; eyes large, globular and protruding; ocelU very laige, 

 conspicuous, twice as far from each other as from the eyes and situated well above a Hne drawn through 

 centers of eyes; inferior margins of genae sloping and sinuate; clypeus nanow, extending for more Ihan 

 half its length below inferior margins of genae, tip pointed. Pronotum strongly convex, bearing strong 

 suprahumerals and long, decurved posterior process; metopidium vertical, about as broad as high; 

 median carina strongly percurrent; humeral angles very large, heavy and blunt; suprahumeral horns 

 large, triquerate, longer than the distance between their bases, extending outward and upward, tips 

 sharp; posterior process long, slender, tricarinate and decurved, arising from low on the pronotum but 

 not touching the scutellum, apical third usually impinging on the tegmina, tip acuminate and extending 

 well beyond the internal angles of the tegmina but not reaching their tips; scutellum entirely exposed, 

 much longer than broad, tip notched. Tegmina hyabne or mottled; base broadly coriaceous and 

 punctate; veins heavy; five apical and two discoidal cells; tips rounded; apical limbus very narrow. 

 Legs long, slender, simple; tibitc iinely spined; hind tarsi longest. 



Type curvispina Stal. 



Geographical distribution 



from Oriental and Oceanic regiona. 



This is primarily an Indian genus but it has been leported also 



I. balteata Distant, Faun. Brit. Ind. App. i5i. 3342 (igi6). — Pl, I 2, India, Kodaikanal, Teppaku- 



lam. 



fig. 197. 



2. campbelli Distant, Faun. Brit. Ind. App. i5o. 3341 (igi6). 



3. canesceiis Buckton, Mon. Memb. 2^4 (1903). 



4. capislrata Distant, Faun. Brit. Ind. 19. 2i25 (igoy). 



5. cognata Distant, ('"aun. Brit. Ind. App. i^g. 333g (igi6). 



6. consobriua Distant, Faun. Brit. Ind. App. 132. 33^4 (igi6). 



7. curvispina Slal, Bid. Memb. Kan. 284. 3 (iS6g). 



decipiens (nom. nud.) Motschiilsky. Hull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. XXXVI : g6 



(i863). 

 imitalor Buckton, Mon. Memb. 234 (1903). 



8. depressa Funkhouser, Treubia XV : i. 122 (1935"). 



g. flavipes Kirby, Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool. XXIV : i55 (i8gi). 



10. formosanus Matsumura, Cic. Jap. II : i5. i (1912). 



11. imiiator Kirby, Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool. XXIV : 167 (1891). 



12. oruanda Distant, Faun. Brit. Ind. App. i5o. 33^0 (igi6). 

 i3. pallipes Stal, Bid. Memb. Kan. 2S4. 4(1869). 



South India, Kodaikanal. 

 India,Sikhim, Mungphu,Ten- 



asserim, Myitta, Nicobar 



Island. 

 India, Assam, Margherita, 



Burma, Ruby Mines. 

 India, Nilgiri Hills. 

 South India, Kodaikanal. 

 India, Calcutta, Kodaikanal, 



Ceylon, Maskehya. 



Java. 



Ceylon, India,.Assam, Borneo. 



Formosa. 



India, Teppakulam, Ceylon, 



Pundaluoya. 

 South India, Kodaikanal. 

 India. 



