FAM MEMBRACID.E 2^7 



7. paludatus Distant, Faun. Brit. Ind. App. 175. 3384 (1916). India, South India, Chikka- 



ballapuia, Orissa, Puri, 

 Madras, Lake Chilka, Cal- 

 cutta. 



8. stipulipeiinis Buckton, Mon. Memb. 255 (igo3). Borneo, Brunei. 



9. tuberculatus Motschulsky, Etud. Ent. VIII : log (iSSg). — Pl. 13, India, Ceylon, Peradeniya, 



fjg. 224. Kala-Weisa, Puttalam. 



fasciala Melichar, Hom. Ceylon i2i. 2 (igoS). 



254. Genus PARAYASA Distant 



Parayasa Distant, Faun. Brit. Ind. App. 176 (1916). 



Characters : A genus of very small insects characterized particularly by the lack of supra- 

 humerals, the smooth gibbous pronotum, the sinuate posterior process and the four apical cells of the 

 tegmina. Head subquadrate, broader than high; base arcuate and feebly sinuate ; eyes large, ovate 

 and protruding; ocelli small, inconspicuous, about equidistant from each other and from the eyes and 

 situated on a line drawn through centers of eyes; inferior margins of genae broad, sloping and rounded ; 

 clypeus narrow, pointed, extending for half its length below inferior margins of genae. Pronotum 

 gibbous, without suprahumerals but with a short, sinuate posterior process ; metopidium sloping. 

 about as broad as high, usually with a semicircular impression above each eye; median carina percur- 

 rent; humeral angles heavy, triangular and blunt; no suprahumerals ; posterior process short and 

 sinuate, impinging on both niesonotum and tegmina, tip acute and reaching just about to the internal 

 angles of the tegmina; sides of mesonotum exposed on each side in a sharp point; no true scutellum. 

 Tegmina broad, vitreous or subhyahne ; base broadly coriaceous and punctate ; veins strong; four apica] 

 and two discoidal ceils ; tip pointed ; apical limbus narrow. Legs long and slender; femora cylindrical ; 

 tibiae triquerous, distinctly curved and finely spined; hind tarsi longest. 



Type typica Distant. 



Geographical distribution : This genus has been reported only from British India and the 

 East Indies. 



1. affinis Distant, Faun. Brit. Ind. App. 179. 33gi (1916). South India, Nandidrug. 



2. affixa Distant, Faun. Brit Ind. App. 178. 3389 (1916). India, Nilgiri Hills. 



3. atricapilla Distant. Faun. Brit. Ind. App. 179. 33^0 (igi6). India, Nilgiri Hills. 



4. dissimilis Distant, Faun. Brit. Ind. App. 179. 33^2 (1916). South India, Kodaikanal. 



5. elegantula Distant, Faun. Brit. Ind. App. 178. 3388 (1916). India, Nilgiri Hills, Ootaca- 



mund, Somerdale, South 

 India. Kodaikanal. 



6. mactilipennis Funkhouser, J. R. A. S. 82 : 224. 5o (1920). Borneo, Sandakan. 



7. maculosa Distant, Faun. Brit. Ind. App. 177. 338^ (1916). South India. Nandidrug, Ko- 



daikanal. 



8. margherita Distant, Fiiun. Brit. Ind. App. 180. 33g3 (igi6). India, Assam, Margherita. 



9. modesta Distant, Faun. Brit. Ind. App. 181. 33^5 (1916). India, Nilgiri Hills. 

 10. nilgiriensis Distant, Faun. Brit. Ind. App. 180. 33^4 (igi6). India. Nilgiri Hills. 



