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JASSID^, 



brown, anterior area darker brown, with a central longitudinal 

 pale carinate line ; scutellum dull greyish ; body beneath and 

 legs stramineous ; tegmina dark chocolate-brown, claval inner 

 margin and vein greyish, posterior costal area a little paler, a 

 minute greyish spot on inner margin at apex of lower ulnar area ; 

 apices of tarsi piceous ; face with two small transverse piceous 

 spots on anterior margin, medially longitudinally carinate, laterally 

 transversely striate ; pronotum finely granulose, more coarsely so 

 on anterior area ; tegmina finely and obscurely punctate, coarsely 

 punctate on clavus. 



Length 7 millini. 



Hah. Ceylon; Maslielija (Green). 



Genus PRETA, nov. 



Type, P. r/ratiosa, Melich. 



Bistribution. British India. 



Vertex of head subtriangular, excavate, the lateral margins 

 strongly reflexed, transversely carinate a little before eyes, and 

 thence more finely centrally longitudinally carinate to apex ; face 

 moderately convex, very strongly centrally longitudinall}^ ridged ; 

 pronotum very long, transversely impressed and ridged before 

 anterior margin, two strong central longitudinal ridges ; scutellum 

 small, triangular ; legs of moderate length, posterior tibiae finely 

 spinulose ; tegmina longer than the abdomen, clavus with a 

 central transverse vein and an oblique vein near base, an irregular 

 series of transverse veins before apical area, apical cells four. 



2474. Preta gratiosa, Melich. (Siguoretia) Horn. Faun. Ceylon, p. 160, 

 t. iv, f. 8 «, 5 (1903). 



Fig. 148. — Frcta graiiosa. 



Greyish-white ; vertex, body beneath and legs with an ochra- 

 ceous tint ; tegmina with the veins on apical area fuscous and 



