10 [Jaauai-y, 



Type, S (96519) ; ? (9G201). Mus. WIstn. 

 Hah.: ALGERIA — Biskra, 23.III-1G.1V.1903. Eighteen 

 speciineiis. 



Flying freely at dusk over a small annual Mesemhryanthemum on 

 a low hill near the cemetery. 



Most nearly allied to acanthcUa, Gd<., but much smaller and 

 quite distinct. In the forewings vein 4 is subobsolete ; and in the 

 hindwings there are only 7 veins, 4 and 5 being coincident, and the 

 discoidal obsolete between 3 and 5. 



3538 : 2.— ScTTHuis pura, sp. n. 



Antennae cream-white. Palpi, Head, and Thorax cream- white. Forewings 

 and cilia rather shining, cream-white, with a slight brownish tinge toward the apex ; 

 underside slightly tinged with oclireous. Exp. al., 12 mm. HindwingH very pale 

 bluish grey ; cilia brownish white. Abdomen and Legs white. 



Type, ? (96539) ; ^ (97188). Mus. Wlsm 



Hab. : ALGERIA- Hammam-es-Salahin, 26.IV.1901, 17.V.1903. 

 Two specimens. 



A small pure white species, quite distinct from anything with 

 which I am acquainted. 



fTo be eontinuedj. 



DESCRIPTION OF A PEST TO THE BAMBOO IN INDIA. 

 BY W. L. DISTANT. 



Mr. Charles B. Antrim, Entomologist to the Indian Tea Associa- 

 tion, has forwarded me some specimens which Dr. H. H. Mann had 

 found attacking bamboos at Darjiling. They represent an undescribed 

 species of FulgoridcB, belonging to the subfamily Delphacin(S,?irid con- 

 stitute a second described member of the genus Purohita, which I 

 founded on a Ceylonese form, P. cervina (Faun. B. I., Ehynch., 

 Ill, p. 470). 



PUROHITA ARUNBINACEA, Sp. n. 



Body and legs ochraceous ; antennae fuscous ; face carmine-red to posterior 

 margin of eyes, thence cretaceous- white to clypeus ; lateral margins of prosternum 

 carmine-red, inwardly margined with cretaceous-white ; anterior and intermediate 

 legs striped with black, apices to tarsi black ; the carinations to vertex, pro- and 

 mesonota greyish, as is also the apical area of the latter, which has a dark apical 

 spot ; abdomen above with the three posterior segments purplish-red with the 

 margins ochraceous ; legmina creamy-white, all the veins spotted with black, the 

 marginal spots largest, and commencing at end of radial area, terminating at apex 



