MOONIA. 197 



spotted and the tibi?c longitudinally striped, all the claws brown." 

 (^Melicliar.) 



"Length, 6 2^-2^ millim., ? 2|-3 millim." 



Hah. Ceylon ; Peradeniya {fide Alelichar). 



2414. Agallia quadrinotata. Melich. Horn. Faun. Ceylon, p. 151 

 (190:J). 



" Body more slender and longer than in hiplagiata, resembling 

 the European A. sinuata, M, & il. in form and size, with four 

 black round spots, two on the vertex further from each other 

 than from eyes, and two which are rather larger and rather more 

 widely separated on the prouotum near the posterior margin ; 

 face yellowish with very suffused markings on the forehead, 

 so that a paler middle line is apparent, which on upper end is 

 strongly narrowed, usually interrupted and similar to a reversed 

 note of interrogation, in antennal cavities is a black transverse 

 spot which is lengthened on cheeks nearly to the eyes ; ' zugel ' 

 semicircular, the cheek veined, suture black ; clypeus somewhat 

 long, unspotted ; prouotum more than three times as long as 

 vertex, towards front strongly produced and rounded, behind 

 flatly concave, on surface arched, flnely and transversely streaked, 

 behind the black spots a brownish longitudinal line, truncated 

 before and behind, is usually visible ; scutellum at base as far as 

 the second transverse line rustv-brown ; behind the transverse 

 line to tip paler ; tegmina somewhat long, their apices extending 

 far beyond abdominal apex, brownish-yellow, towards costa paler, 

 with dark longitudinal veins ; membrane dirty smoky-brown with 

 dark veins ; pectus and abdomen yellowish, the latter brownish 

 above; legs yellowish, with all the claws black." {Melicliar.) 



"Lengtii 'S $ 3-4 millim." 



Hah. Ceylon ; Peradeniya {fide Melicliar). 



Genus MOONIA, nov. 



Type, M. sancita, Dist. 



Distribution. British Iiidia. 



Vertex very short, much shorter at middle than on lateral areas, 

 where it is somewhat broadly and deeply grooved ; ocelli placed 

 on front just beneath the anterior margin of the vertex, nearer to 

 each other than to eyes ; basal area of head grooved beneath ; face 

 somewhat small, a little longer than broad, rounded anteriorly; pro- 

 uotum somewhat gibbous, foveately depressed on each lateral area, 

 linely centrally longitudinally carinate, posterior latei'al margins 

 oblique, anterior margin moderately produced and rounded, 

 posterior margin nearly straight ; scutellum small, about half the 

 length of prouotum, triangular, transversely ridged near base; 

 tegmina moderately broad, passing apex of abdomen, costal 

 margin rounded, veins coarse and prominent, apical veins five; 



