166 JASSID^. 



pressed anteriorly ; tegmina thickly punctate, more coarsely so on 

 claval area ; posterior tibife remotely but coarsely dentate. 



Length inch tegm. $ 13 millim. 



Hah. Nilgiri Hills (//ffwjjson); Utakamand(^r;i.il7»s.); Bombay: 

 Igatpuri (Lefroij) ; Assam ; Margherita {Doherty), 



2369. Petalocephala chlorocepliala, Wall-. (Ledra) List Horn, iii, 



p. 82-5 (1851) ; SU%1 (Petalocephala), Of v. Vet.-Ak. Fork. 1862, 

 p. 494 ; Atkins. J. A. S. B. liv, p. 107 (1885). 

 Ledrnpsis fuscipennis, Melich. Horn. Faun. Ceylon, p. 144, t. iv, 

 f. 15 (1903). 



Head, prouotum and scutellum ochraceous or virescent ; teg- 

 mina ochraceous, the claval area sometimes more or less purplish, 

 a small dark spot on disk which in some specimens is obsolete ; 

 vertex about as long as bi*eadth between eyes, angularly rounded in 

 front, the apical lateral margins a httle reflexed, finely punctate, 

 distinctly centrally longitudinally cavinate; pronotum more coarsely 

 punctate, obscurely centrally linearly furrowed, with t\^o distinct 

 foveations on anterior area ; scutellum punctate, apically obscurely 

 transversely striate; face very strongly centrally longitudinally 

 furrowed. 



Length inch tegm. 11 to 12 millim. 



Hah. "North India" {Brit. Mas.). Ceylon; Puudaluoya 

 (Green, Brit. Mus.). 



2370. Petalocephala latifroiis, Walk. (Ledra) List Horn, iii, p. 824 



(1851) ; Stm (Petalocephala), O^v. Vet.- Ak. Fork. 1862, p. 494. 



Closely allied to P. cMoro- 

 cephala, Walk., from which, 

 however, it may be easily 

 separated by the following 

 characters : — the lateral mar- 

 gins of the vertex are not evenly 

 continued to apex, but are 

 almost straight for a short 

 , _ distance before the eyes and 



^ ^3-^» then somewhat obliquely con- 

 Fig. 110. — Petalocephala latifruns. tinned to apex ; lateral mar- 

 gins of the pronotum black ; 

 face obscurely, not prominently, longitudinally sulcate ; tegmina 

 usually shining rusty-brown, sometimes dull ochraceous, \\ith the 

 clavus more or less purplish-brown. 

 Length inch tegm. 13 millim. 



Hah. 8ikhim; Mungphu(^//tmsoH). Bombay: Igatpuri (Z/^/ro?/). 

 Assam (Badgley, Brit. Mus.). Sylhet {Brit. Mus.). 



2371. Petalocephala hornei, sp. n. 



Head, pronotum, scutellum, body beneath and legs ochraceous 

 lateral margins of vertex and central cariuation to same narrow, 



