KAMA LA . — NEOETH A.EA. 



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indistinct punctures ; the short vertical notch on either side at 

 the base is absent ; sides feebly rounded, lateral angles rounded. 

 Scutellum small, triangular with apex rounded, impunctate. 

 Elytra hardly broader at base than prothorax, punctate-striate, 

 each elytron having ten rows, including a short scutellar row. 

 Underside smooth, shining, impunctate. 

 Length, 1| mm. 



Ceylon: Bogawantalawa, 4900-5200 ft., 28. ii.-12. iii. 1882 

 (G. Lewis). 



Type in the British Museum. Described from one example. 

 Kamala flavipennis, Motschulsky. 



Hypnophila Jlavipennis, Motsch., Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. xxxix, 1866, 

 part 1, no. 2, p. 422. 



In form resembling Hypn. caricis, but a little more obtuse ; 

 ovate, convex, shining, black ; pronotum almost piceous in 

 front; elytra yellow-brown, distinctly punctate-striate. 



Length, 2\ mm. ; breadth, \\ mm. 



Ceylon : Nuwara Eliya. 



There is no possibility of seeing Motschulsky's type, and the 

 above is a translation from the original description in Latin. 

 Probably Motschulsky's phrase " a little more obtuse " refers to 

 the apex of the elytra. 



This species is here tentatively placed in Kamala. In the 

 British Museum there are many specimens which roughly answer 

 to the above description. 



Genus KEORTHAEA, nom. nov. 



Orthaea, Jac, Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, xxvii, 1889, p. 201. 

 Genotype, Orthaea viridipennis, Jac. 



The name Orthaea is preoccupied for a hemipterous insect 

 (see Dallas, List of Hemip. Insects, British Museum Catalogue, 

 part 2, 1852, p. 580). Neorthaea is therefore proposed here as 

 the name of the genus. 



Body rounded, very convex, narrowed in front and behind. 

 Head with vertex convex and with a broad longitudinal raised 

 area, on either side of which (i. e. 9 above the eye) is a deep furrow, 

 continued to the interocular space, thus forming the front 

 boundary of the raised area previously mentioned; frontal eleva- 

 tions and carina absent. Antennae shorr, extending to a little 

 distance beyond the base of the pronotum, somewhat thickened 

 towards the apex ; the first segment lies in a channel between the 

 lower edge of the eye and the base of the mandible. Prothorax 

 broader than long, the length along the middle longitudinal line 

 greater than that along the sides; the base somewhat sinuate 

 while on either side, in front of the humerus, is situated a short 



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