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JASSID.E. 



legs somewhat short; posterior tibife grooved, shortly thickly 

 finely spinulose. 



I 'have further alluded to the position of this genus wheu 

 describing Mesargus, Melich. farther on. 



2415. Moonia sancita, sp. n. 



Head, pronotum, soutellum, body beneath and legs ochraceous ; 

 eyes black; face with two small dark spots just beneath the 

 ocelK ; vertex coarsely sparingly punctate ; pronotum wrinkled, 



Fig. 129. — Moonia sancita. 



punctate, finely centrally longitudinally carinate, laterally foveate 

 behind eyes ; seutellum with a transverse ridge near base, the 

 lateral margins ridged for about halfway from base ; tegmina 

 pale greyish-brown, the veins robust, spotted with brown, an 

 indistinct greyish-white transverse fascia before middle ; wings 

 very pale fuliginous, the veins piceous ; abdomen above black, 

 the lateral margins more or less ochraceous. 



Length incl. tegm. 4| raillim. 



Hah. Northern India ; Mussoorie (Bi'unetti, Ind. Mus.). 



Genus BUSONIA, uov. 



Type, B. amentata, Dist. 



Distribution. British India. 



Vertex short, broad, transverse, with eyes slightly broader than 

 the pronotum ; ocelli situate on the face between the eyes and 

 very much nearer to the eyes than to each other ; face broad, 

 about as long as broad, obliquely narrowed from eyes ; clypeus 

 short and broad ; pronotum slightly longer than vertex, trans- 

 verse, the lateral margins nearly straight ; seutellum about as 

 long as pronotum and vertex together, subapically transverselj^ 

 and sublaterally impressed, its apex acute ; legs slender, posterior 

 tibiae thickly spinulose ; tegmina broad, apical areas four, the 

 upper or postcostal one very large and broad ; wings broad, their 

 apices truncate ; venation of both tegmina and wings better 

 shown than described by the accompanying figure of the type. 



