486 



Described from three specimens, one of them, the type, 

 from Coonoor, Nilgiri Hills, 5000 feet elevation, and two from 

 Lovedale, Nilgiri Hills, 7500 feet elevation, on grass in marshy 

 places. Type No. 1027. I have taken Australian species in a 

 similar situation in the lowlands. 



Female. Brachypterous ; vertex only one-third the length of thorax 

 and abdomen. The median carina of face simj^le, otherwise the carina- 

 tioli similar to the male. Tegmina reaching to posterior margin of 

 sixth abdominal segment, rounded at apex. 



Color similar to male but lighter, the carinae of head and thorax 

 brown. Tegmina brownish with similarly colored veins. Length, 2.8 ram.; 

 tegmen, 1.2 mm. 



Described from two females from Kodai Kanal, South India. 

 It is possible that they are the females of a distinct species, but 

 only the capture of the male wijl settle the C|uestion. 



There is a tendency for species of this genus to vary in the 

 length of the head and this one only differs from the genotype 

 in the amount of the elongation. 



Gelastocephalus fasciatus (Distant). 



Akilas fasciatus Dist. (1916) Faun. Brit. Ind. Rhynchota, 

 VI, p. 138, f. 99. 



One female from Kodai Kanal, South India (T. J\ Camp- 

 bell J. After comparing it with the type of Gclasiochcphalus 

 Kirk. I can find no generic differences. The length and shape 

 of the tegmina in these brachypterous specimens is not of 

 generic value. 



Megamelus furcifera (Horv.). 



One male and one female, the former from Chikkaballapura 

 and the latter from Mandidrug, South India (T. J\ Campbell). 



