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ORTUÜPIEKA 



Geographical distribution of species. A single species is known from the Algerian 

 Sahara region. 



1. S. /mom, Finot, Hull. Soc. lînl. Fr. i Sq3, p. 29 ( i8g3) (//c/^wZ/Wa) ; .Vnn. J^iskra and Tillis. .\lgerian 



See. Ent. Fr. Vol. 64, j). 97 (i8g5) [Heterochtsla); ibidem, \'ol. 65, Sahara, 

 pi. 14, ff. io-i_' (1896); Ann. Soe. I'.nt. Belg. \'ol. 46, p. 4^2 (1902). 



17. Genus HETEROCH/ETULA, Wood-Mason 



Heterochsetula. \\'o( «l-Mass» m , jouui. Asiat. Sdc. Bengal. \"ol. 58. Pt. 2, p. 3o8 (i88()). 



Characters. — Sexes alike. Body small, delicate, long, slender, bacilliform. Head transverse, 

 depressed, nearly horizontal, pentagonal; vertex much produced above the level of the eyes, distinctly 

 divided by notches and grooves into five lobes, a median, two submedian, and two lateral; middle of 

 vertex concave, convex or truncate; eyes compressed, laterally very salient, with a short simple or a 

 bifid non-faceted corneal spine at the upper and outer angle; facial shield a transverse band deeplv 

 indented by the antennae and not ver}' distinctly defined basally, and concave apically; on each side a 

 small tubercle is ]>laced betu'een the antennal scrobe and the e3'e. Pronotum transverseh" convex, 

 traversed from the base to be\ ond the middle of the anterior lobe by a fine raised median line; margins 

 very finely toothed; disk ver}- minutely and sparsely gianulose. Cerci short, broadly foliaceous. Organs 

 of fiight colored. Tegmina with the veinlets of the costal field long and very oblique and rarebv branched 

 and anastomosed so as to form a reticulum with very long and narrow meshes; median vein simple; 

 anal vein not quite reaching the margin; axillary vein reaching the margin. Wings with the anterior area 

 narrow; discoidal vein simple. Anterior coxae above depressed and unarmed; anterior femora armed 

 below on the outer edge with four spines (order of length tW'O, one, three, four), on the inner edge with 

 thirteen or fourteen alternately shorter and longer ones, and bearing four discoidal spines : anterior tibi;e 

 blunt tectate. Posterior limbs without foliaceous lobes, but ])rnvided with genicular spines; lateral 

 genicular lobes of the feebly quadricristate femora short or acuminately produced; tibiœ filiform, terete 

 above, feebly bicristate below; first joint of tarsi not longer than the next two taken together. 



Type of the genus : H . fissispinis, \\'(.)od-Mason. 



Geographical distribution of species, — Two species are known from the Indian subregion 

 of the Oriental region. 



I ^ncö/or (Wood-Mason), Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (4), \'ol. 18, p. 441 J^engal and Orissa. India. 

 (1876) {Heterochata): fourn. .Asiat. Soc. Bengal, \'ol. 58, Pt. 2, 

 p. 309 (1889). 



2. H . fissispiiiis, Wood-Mason, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, Vol. 58. Pt. 2, IMysore, India. 



p. 309 (1889). 



18. Genus PARADANURIA, Wood-Mason 



Paradanuria. Wood-Mason, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (4), \'ol. 19, p. 220 (1877): Journ. Asiat. Soc. 

 Bengal, \'ol. 58, p. 314 (1889). 



Characters. — Bod\- elongate, delicate; integument granulöse and longitudinally coarsely 

 pauci-rugose. Head depressed, horizontal, deeper than broad, rather broader than the prothorax at its 

 dilation ; vertex with its lateral lobes produced above and slightly outwards over the eyes into blunt 

 tubercles, median lobe on the disk elevated into a huge convex boss which is separated anteriorly or 

 inferiorlv by a transverse sulcus from the subquadrate ocellar eminence, the latter bearing a blunt 



