BALOCHA. 



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2404. Idiocerus astutus, Melich. Horn. Faun. Ceylon, p. 150 (1903). 



" A small species ; perfectly unicolorous, greenish-yellow, 

 locally more pale green or yellow to rusty yellowish ; eyes 

 brown ; face paler yellow, not marked ; ocelli small, vitreous ; 

 tegmina hyaline, slightly brownish-yellow with a weak golden 

 shining lustre, veins delicate, not prominent, somewhat darker 

 than the ground-colour, at tip of clavus a brown spot and the 

 apical tip of the tegmina with a piceous longitudinal spot ; wings 

 hyahue, vitreous ; body beneath and legs pale yellow or greenish- 

 yellow." (Melichar.) 



" Length c? 4 millim." 



Hah. Ceylon ; Henaratgoda (fide Melicliar). 



Have not been able to identify any specimeu 1 have received 

 from Ceylon with the above description. 



Genus BALOCHA, nov. 



Type, B. tricolor^ Dist. 



Distribution. British India and Malaya. 



Vertex broad, transverse, short, anteriorly convexly rounded ; 

 ocelli placed on the face between the eyes, nearer to eyes than to 

 each other, clypeus a little broadened posteriorly, its iipex truncate ; 

 pronotum longer than vertex, about as long as scutellum, anterior 

 margin convex, posterior margin truncate ; scutellum subtrian- 

 gular ; legs of moderate length, posterior tibiaj strongly spinulose ; 

 tegmina much longer than abdomen, costal margin convex, apical 

 areas three, apical margin convex. 



2405. Balocha tricolor, sp. n. 



Vertex and face orange-yellow, base of vertex between eyes 



Fiff. 123. — Balocha tricolor. 



virescent ; pronotum with the anterior area bright testaceous, the 

 posterior area and lateral margins virescent; scutellum bright 



