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25. Gargara nervosa, sp. nov. 



Apparently near G. venosa Walker from the Celebes (Walker. 

 Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool. X: 189. 1868) and G. caelata Distant from 

 the Xilgiri Hills (Distant, Fauna British India App. 172. 3389. 

 1916). 



Uniform brown, punctate, pubescent; tegmina mottled brown 

 and white with veins very large and prominent. 



Head wider than long ; dark brown, closely punctate, finely 

 pubescent: base irregularly sinuate: face sculptured: eyes large, 

 brown : ocelli inconspicuous, amber-colored, about equidistant from 

 each other and from the eyes and situated a little above a line 

 drawn through centers of eyes; clypeus a little longer than wide, 

 extending for more than half its length below inferior margin of 

 face, tip truncate, slightly pubescent. 



Prothorax brown, darker on metopidium and posterior process, 

 closely and finely punctate, sparingly and irregularly pubescent; 

 humeral angles weak, blunt ; metopidium very convex as seen from 

 above; median carina not percurrent but appearing only on the 

 posterior process ; posterior process short, extending just to the 

 internal angles of the tegmina. slightly depressed at base, carinate 

 above, tip blunt, dark and slightly depressed. 



Tegmina hyaline, wrinkled : base brown and punctate : trans- 

 verse brown fascia just behind base "and another just below internal 

 angles : veins very large, strong and prominent ; tips more or less 

 pointed, extending just beyond apex of abdomen. 



Sides of thorax white tomentose: undersurface of body brown: 

 legs brown. 



Length 4.7 mm.: width between humeral angles 2.-1 mm. 

 Type: female (Baker's duplicate No. 8980). 

 Locality : Singapore. 



Described from two females, both from Singapore. Type in 

 author's collection: paratype in Professor Baker's collection. 



'26. Gargara sordida, sp. nov. 



Dark, heavy-bodied ; tegmina more or less blackened ; posterior 

 process extending just to internal angles of tegmina; sides of thorax 

 more or less tomentose. 



Head wider than long, black, sculptured, finely and closely 

 punctate, sparingly pubescent with golden hairs; base irregularly 

 sinuate : eyes very large, brown ; ocelli small, white, glistening, 

 farther from each other than from the eyes and situated far above 

 a line drawn through centers of eyes, almost as high as tops of 

 eyes: inferior margins of genae regularly sinuate: clypeus longer 



K. A. Soc, No. 79. 



