FAM. MEMHRACID^ 



283 



21. tarandtis Fabricius, Ent. S\\st. Suppl. 514(1798). • 

 rufus Biickton, Mon. Memb. 254 (igoS). 



22. tenebrosiis Walker, List Hom. B. M. 623. 58 (i85i 



23. tuberculaitis Walker, Ins. Saund. 109 (i858). 



24. uHcatus Melichar, Hom. Ce^-lon 108. 2 (igoS). 



neclaris Buckton, Mon. Memb. 246(1903). 



25. versicolor Distant, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. XVI : 94. 322 (igi^). 



26. vetusta Walker, List Hom. B. M. Soj. 8 (i85i). 



27. yerhuryi Distant, Rhynch. Notes 21 (1916). 



Pl. I4,fig. 249. Africa, Senegal, Egypt, Gold 

 Coast, Cameroons, Abvssi- 

 nia, Arabia, India, Bengal. 

 Calcutta, Madras, Chatra- 

 pur, Ganganu, Mjsore, 

 Bangalore, Karachi, East 

 Bengal, Rajshaki. Cevlon. 

 \. Africa, Sierra Leone, Ivorv 



Coast, Gold Coast. 



Africa, Cape of Good Hope, 

 Natal. 



Ceylon, Peradeniya, Trichin- 

 opoh'. 



.Arabia, Aden. 



Africa, Natal. 



Aden. 



281. Genus GONGRONEURA JACOBI 



Gongroneura Jacobi, Kilimand. Exp. 120 (igio). 

 Pedalion (preoccupied) Buckton, Mon. Memb. 25i (igoS). 



Characters : Near the preceding genus but differing in having four apical cells in the hind wing 

 and in having a binodose posterior process which does not show a strong kecl on the under side. 

 Head quadrate, foliaceous, about as broad as high; base arcuate, sinuate, and feebly bituberculate ; 

 eyes subtriangular ; ocelli large, conspicuous, about equidistant from each other and from the eyes and 

 situated a little above a line drawn tiirough centers of eyes; inferior margins of genag flattened, foliaceous, 

 strongly lobed and sharply angulate; clypeus broad, foliaceous, not extending below inferior margins 

 of genae, tip truncate. Pronotum gibbous, convex, roughly sculptured, with robust suprahumerals and 

 a binodose posterior process; metopidium vertical, about as wide as high; median carina strongly 

 percurrent; humeral angles heavj', triangular and blunt; suprahumeral horns varying in size and 

 struclure but always heavy, rough, more or less swoUen, extending outward and upward, much longer 

 than the distance between their bases, often with the tips bent outward; posterior process heavy, 

 tectiform, bearing tvvo flattened elevations on the upper surface and often dentate below, tip suddenh- 

 acute behind the posterior node and reaching beyond the internal angles of the tegmina; scutellum 

 completely concealed. Tegmina entirely free, narrow, subhyaline or semiopaque, often mottled; base 

 broadly coriaceous and punctate; veins strong and raised; five apical and four discoidal cells ; apical 

 limbus broad and wrinkled. Hind wings with four apical cells. Legs short and stout; femora cylin- 

 drical; all three pairs of tibiae broadh' foliaceous and distinctly spined; hind tarsi longest. 



T"yp* fasciata Buckton. 



Geographical distribution 



continent. 



This is an African genus with a rather extended range on that 



I. ^i>-«'!Vor«/5 Jacobi, Kil. Exp. XII : 7. 120 (igio). — Pl. I4,fig. 250. Africa, Kilimandjaro, Kibo- 



noto, Niederung. 



