222 NEW BECOKDS & SPECIES OF MALAYAN MEMBRACIDAE. 



1903. Maerops mixtus Buckt. idem. p. 266. 



1903. Gar gam variegata Melichar Horn. Ceylon, p. 123. 



1907. Gargara mixta Dist. Fauna Brit. Lid. p. 65. 



1907. Gargara mixta Lefroy Ind. Ins. Life, p. 732. 



1916. Gargara mixta Dist. Fauna Brit. Ind. App. p. 171. 



Two males and one female from Sandakan. Borneo. One of 

 the males bears Baker's duplicate Xo. 9829 and the female is 

 numbered 9830. 



If the above synonymy is correct as I believe it to be since 

 Distant has compared Buekton's type of M. mixtus with a cotvpe 

 of Melichar's G. variegata, this insect has a very wide range and 

 it is not surprising that it should be here recorded from Borneo. 



From the material which I have seen belonging to this species 

 I judge that it shows considerable variation or that perhaps there 

 are several varieties. I have never recognized Distant's variety 

 nandidrugana which he states may be a distinct species. 



48. Gargara pilinervosa sp. nov. 



Small, dark brown, finely punctate, densely pubescent; pos- 

 terior process not reaching internal angles of tegmina; tegmina 

 hyaline, base black, transverse brown fascia across central area, 

 veins very strongly pilose and somewhat nodulate : undersurface of 

 body brown; femora brown, tibiae and tarsi luteous. 



Head wider than long, the black color and fine punctuation 

 almost entirely hidden by the very dense silvery pubescence; base 

 strongly sinuate ; eyes large, prominent, grayish-brown ; ocelli small, 

 pearly, at least twice as far from each other as from the eyes and 

 situated well above a line drawn through centres of eyes; inferior 

 margins of genae sloping, sinuate; antennae long, prominent; 

 clypeus longer than wide, black, punctate, very densely pubescent, 

 extending for about half its length below inferior margins of genae, 

 tip rounded, flanged and sparingly pilose. 



Pronotum dark brown, punctate, very densely pubescent with 

 silvery hairs especially over anterior half; metopidium wider than 

 high, sloping, slightly convex along median line; humeral angles 

 large, prominent, triangular, auriculate, blunt; median carina 

 faintly percurrent, strong on posterior process but almost obsolete 

 on metopidium; dorsum weakly convex, slightly depressed above 

 scutellum; scutellum plainly exposed on both sides, punctate, 

 pubescent; posterior process short, heavy, blunt, strongly ridged 

 above, somewhat lighter in color than the rest of the pronotum, 

 extending only a short distance beyond scutellum and not nearly 

 Teaching the internal angles of the tegmina. 



Tegmina hyaline except at base which is black, coriaceous, 

 punctate and pubescent; across the central area is a transverse 

 brown fascia extending from the internal angle and becoming grad- 



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