FAM. Mi':\ii^RACir)yi: 279 



lip biangulate. Tegmina entiiel\' free, subhyaline; base narrowly coriaceousand punctate ; veins strong; 

 five apical and two discoidal cells; apical limbus well developed. Hind wings with four apical cells. 

 Legs heavy and robust; femora cylindrical; tibi;e somewhat flattened; all tarsi about equal in length. 



Type sooknaua Distant. 



Geographical distribution : Two species have been described by IJistant for this genus, one 

 from Africa and the other from Asia. 



1. defledens Distant, Ann. Mag. Nat. llist. X\'I ; 96.494 (1915). British East Africa, Xgare 



Narok, Kenya, German East 

 Africa, Ruanda. 



2. soohnana Dislant, Faun. Brit. Ind. 6g. 2211 (1907). — Pl. 14, British India, Sookna. 



fig. 245. 



277. GENUS AWANIA Distant 



Awania Distant, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. III : 5i8 (1914). 



Characters : Near the preceding genus but with the posterior process much lovver and 

 extending just above the scutellum and tegmina and distinguished particularly by the laige tubercles 

 on the base of the head. Head subquadrate, about as high as broad, roughly sculptured; base highly 

 arcuate and strongly sinuate and bearing a large, heavy tubercle on each side of the median line; e}'es 

 comparativel)' small and flattened; ocelli large, conspicuous, a little farther from each other than from 

 the eyes and situated about on a line drawn through centers of eyes; inferior margins of genaj sloping 

 and sublobate; clypeus triangular, extending for two-thirds its length below inferior margins of gena', 

 tip pointed. Pronotum gibbous, convex and unarmed; metopidium sloping, broader than high, 

 distinctly flanged outward at the base; median carina strongly percurrent, no suprahumeral horns; 

 humeral angles very large, heavy, subconical and blunt; posterior process robust, slightly curved, 

 tricarinate, tectiform, arising from the top of the pronotum and extending backward just above the 

 scutellum and tegmina but not touching either, tip acuminate and reachingjust beyond the internal 

 angles of the tegmina; scutellum entireh' exposed, about as broad as long, subtriangular, usualh' 

 densely pilose, tip bifurcate. Tegmina broad, smoky-hyaline or translucent; base broadly coriaceous 

 and punctate; veins verj' heavy; five apical and two discoidal cells: apical hmbus broad. Legs long 

 and robust; femora cyhndrical; tibiae somewhat flattened in the middle and ridged at the edges; all 

 tarsi about equal in length. 



Type iypica Distant. 



Geographical distribution : This is an African genus represented b}- two species. 



1. typica Distant, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. III : 5i8 (1914). Africa. Lagos, Oni. 



2. w««flGoding, Journ.N.Y.Ent.Soc. XXX\'ITI : 90 (1930).— Pl. 14, West Africa, [Mench Congo, 



fig. 246. Gombari. 



278. GENUS BOCCHAR JacOBI 



Bocchar Jacobi, Kilimand. Exp. Sjost. 120 (1910). 

 Melicharella Goding, Journ. X. Y. Ent. Soc. XXX\'III : 40 (1910). 



Characters : This genus is characterized by the absence of suprahumerals, the straight 

 posterior process elevated shghtly above the scutellum and tegmina, and the absence of tubercles at 



