176 JASSTD^. 



tip, so that at the base three sh'ghtly arched humps are formed ; 

 tegmina witli a blac-ldsli -brown transverse fascia which is directed 

 from the middle of costal margin obliquely forward and runs 

 inward to tip of scutellum, numerous scattered black granules 

 which form a longitudinal series on costal margin and are 

 specially distinct in the paler apical part ; pectus, abdomen and 

 legs dirty green, the tibiae with rather large black spots at the 

 angles, on surface very finely punctate, tarsi dirty green." 

 i^Melichar.) 



Length S 9 millim. 



Hah. Ceylon ; Peradeniya {Jide Meliclmr). 



I have not seen this species, 



The two following species have been described by Walker in the 

 genus Ledra, but the unique types are both mutilated and their 

 generic position indeterminable. 



Gen. 1 punctata, Walk. (Ledra) Li><t Horn, iii, p. 824 (1851) ; Atkins. 

 J. A. S. B. liv, p. 94 (1885). 

 Hah. Malabar {Brit. Mus.). 



Oen. 1 lineata, Walk. (Ledra) List Horn, iii, p. 830 (1851) ; Atkins. 

 J. A. S. B. liv, p. 94 (1885). 



Hah. " North India " {Brit. Mus.). 



Genus CHATURA, nov. 



Type, C. nigella, Dist. 



Distribution. Ceylon. 



Vertex about as long as breadth between eyes and almost as 

 long as pronotuiTi and scutellum united, not angulated in front 

 of eyes, the lateral margins continuous from eyes to apex ; face 

 broad between the eyes, angularly narrowed anteriorly ; pro- 

 notum short, considerably shoiter than vertex, with four central 

 ridges, the lateral margins sinuate, anterior and posterior mai'gins 

 nearly straight, the latter only slightly concavely sinuate ; 

 scutellum discally foveate ; legs moderately short, posterior tibiae 

 not foliaceously dilated, outwardly somewhat strongly spinose ; 

 tegmina shoi't, more or less granulose, apices broadly rounded. 



Differs from Ledra by the non-dilated posterior tibiae, the non- 

 angulated vertex in front of eyes, the short pronotum, &c. 



2389, Chatura nigella, sp. u. 



Head, pronotum and scutellum oclu-aceous ; head sparingly 

 testaceously granulate, with a central longitudinal dark testaceous 

 fascia ; pronotum with the disk piceous ; abdomen above brownish- 

 testaceous ; head beneath anteriorly ochraceous, the face and 

 an anterior central fascia piceous ; sternum and legs ochraceous, 

 the former more or less suffused with piceous ; abdomen beneath 



