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b. Head as long as pro no turn. 

 2269. Philagra dissimilis, sp. n. 



Piceous-brown, somewhat thickly ochraceously tomentose ; apex 

 of scutellum ochraceous ; face, clypeus, and legs darker piceous ; 

 head above about as long as pronotum, its apex much less nt- 

 tenuated than iu the preceding species and somewhat broadlv 

 rounded, much more faintly centrally and laterally carinate, and 

 finely transversely wrinkled, its extreme lateral margins brownish- 

 ochraceous ; face transversely striate, more strongly so on its 

 anterior area, obsoletely centrally carinate, but clypeus strongly 

 so ; spines to posterior tibiae long and robust. 



Length inch tegm. 13 millim. 



Hah. Xilgiri Hills (Hampson, Coll. Dist.). 



Species doubtfulli/ recorded from British India. 



Hindola viridicans, StSl (Ptyelus), Ofv. Vet.-Ak. Fiirh. 1854, 

 p. -irA ■ id. Fri'fj. Eiuj. kern, Hem. p. 286 (1859) ; Spdngb. 

 (Carystus) Of v. Vet.-Ak. Fiirh. 1877, no. 9, p. 18; Atkins. 

 J. A. S. I), liv, p. 21 (1885) ; Kirk. (Hindola) Entomolonist, 

 1900, p. 243. 



This is a Malayan species recorded from Java, Singapore, and 

 Malacca. Atkinson {sup>ra) has with doubt given Tenasseriin as 

 a habitat. It was not received in any of the collections made for 

 me by Mr. Doherty in Tenasserim (and all his captures there were 

 sent to me), and I therefore do not consider myself justified in 

 including the genus and species iu this enumeration. 



Subfamily III. CERCOPIN.E. 



Cercopida, Stdl, Hem. Afr. iv, p. 55 (1866). 

 Cercopiua, StM, Of v. Vet.-Ak. Fork. 1870, p. 718. 

 Cercopinse, Fowl. Biol. Ce?itr.-Am., Rhynch. Horn, ii, p. 174 (1897). 

 Rhinaulacinae, Kirk. Rep. Exp. Stat. Han\ Plant. Assoc, pt. ix, 

 p. 380 (1900). 



This subfamily is structurally to be differentiated by having the 

 anterior margin of the pronotum straight, and the eyes equally as 

 long as broad. They also possess a most distinctive superficial, or 

 apparent, appearance which renders their identification a matter 

 of little difficulty. 



It is in the Oriental and Malayan Eegions that the Cercopina; 

 reach their maximum in size and colour development, and this in 

 the very extensive genera Cosmoscarta and Phymatostetha. These 

 beautiful insects were largely described by Walker in his Lists 

 of Homoptera, 1851 and 1858 ; which descriptions were much 

 revised and corrected by Stal, who visited the British Museum 

 in 1862. Butler (1874) published a Revision of the genera 

 Cosmoscarta and Phymatostetha, describing new species. Since 



