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Male. Body smooth, rather slender. Head as broad as the prothorax ; 

 vertex convex ; front oval. Mandibles large. Eyes elongate-elliptical, 

 prominent. Maxillary palpi rather stout ; fifth joint about twice the length 

 of the fourth. Antenna? long, slender. Prothorax saddle-shaped ; fore 

 border nearly straight; sides and hind border slightly rounded. Sternum 

 not notched. Abdomen with an erect cone at the base; apical appendages 

 lanceolate. Legs stout, moderately long ; femora and tibiae with several 

 spines and with a few large membranous spines beneath. 



This genus is nearly allied to Valna. The specimen described is 

 probably in the larva state. 



1. SANABRIA FUSCESCENS. 



Mas. Teslacea ; caput vertice vittisque duabus latis fuscis ; prothorax 

 macula fusca trigona ; abdomen fuscum, basi testaceum, maculis 

 guatitor dorsalibus luleis maculisque duabus posticis testaceis ; pedes 

 fusco fasciati. 



Male. Testaceous. Head with the vertex and a broad stripe on each 

 side of the front brown ; fore part shining. Eyes tawny. Piolhorax with 

 a triangular brown spot in front. Abdomen brown, testaceous at the base, 

 with four Inteous spots on the dorsum and with two testaceous spots on each 

 side near the tip. Femora with one membranous subapical spine. Hind 

 femora with two irregular and incomplete brown bands; four anterior 

 femora with brown lips ; hind tibiae with three brown bands and with four 

 membranous spines ; four anterior tibia? brown at the base and at the tips 

 and with three membranous spines. Length of the body 6 lines. 



a. Birmah. From Mrs. Waring's collection. 



Genus 94. VELLEA. 



Fcem. Corpus robustum, glabrum. Caput carinula antica sulcata 

 postice dilatata ; frons subpunclata. Oculi prominuli, fere rotundi. Palpi 

 graciles ; articulus 3us 4o duplo longior ; 5ns 3o longior. Antenna? longae, 

 gracilliniiP. Prothorax disco piano pnnctato postice latiore sulcis duobus 

 transversis lo angulato, carinis lateralibus bene determinatis, lateribus 

 margineque postico rotundatis. Mesosternum et melasternum incisa. Ovi- 

 ductus arcuatus, aequilatus. Pedes robusti, pubescenles, femoribus tibiisque 

 posticis longis, illorum spinis subfoliaceis. Ala? auticae angusta?. Ala? 

 postica? longiores, ampla?. 



Female. Body stout, shining, smooth. Head nearly as broad as the 

 prothorax ; a furrowed keel on the fore part of the vertex, dilated hindward, 

 separated by a transverse suture from the elongation of the front between 

 the antenna? ; front erect, thinly and minutely punctured. Eyes prominent, 

 nearly round. Palpi slender; fourth joint about half the length of the 

 third, which is shorter than the fifth. Antenna? long, very sL-nder, stout 

 and approximate at the base. Prothorax with a punctured flat disk which 

 widens hindward and has two transverse furrows, of which the fore one is 

 angular; lateral keels well defined ; fore border straight; sides and hind 

 border much rounded. Mesosternum and melasternum notched. Oviduct 

 curved, of equal depth along the whole length, rounded at the tip, shorter 



