TAilBILA. 247 



spots incurved, apex (in type) mutilated; tegmiiia black, thickly 

 spotted with ochraceous, the apical marginal area greyisli-white 

 where the veins and a few small spots are fuscous ; body beneath 

 and legs black ; vertex punctate ; pronotura convex, its posterior 

 margin irregularly ochraceous ; posterior tibia; spotted with 

 ochraceous, the spinules long. 



Length 4 millim. 



Hab. Ceylon ; IN'eduukulam {Green). Tenasserim ; Myitta 

 {Doheity). 



A single specimen of this species was sent to me by ray ever 

 helpful friend Mr. E. E. Green, and another was received from 

 Mr. Doherty while in Tenasserim. 



2491. Neodartus rufopunctatus, Motsch. (Penthimia) Bull. Soc. Nat. 

 Mosc. xxxvi, ^■^, p. 94 (1863) ; Melich. Hum. Faun. Ceylon, 

 p. 162 (1903). 



Head, pronotum and scutellum black ; tegmina black, thickly 

 covered with minute rufous spots, the apical marginal area 

 greyish-white with fuscous veins and margin ; body beneath and 

 legs black, tibiae spotted with ochraceous, anterior and posterior 

 tarsi very pale ochraceous; vertex granulose, the apical margin 

 strongly reflexed ; pronotum finely transversely striate ; posterior 

 tibiae longly spinulose, the spiuules ochraceous. 



Lengtli 4 millim. 



Hah. Ceylon; Puttalam (6rr^<?H). 



I have little hesitation in ascribing a single specimen described 

 as above to Motschoulsky's species. 



Genus TAMBILA, nov. 



Type, T. greeui, Dist. 



Distribution. Ceylon. 



Vertex of head broad, somewhat long, about half as long as 

 breadth between eyes, the apex somewhat truncate, its posterior 

 margin concave^ moderately truncate at middle ; ocelli placed on 

 disk a little before middle, nearer to lateral margins than to each 

 other ; pronotum about twice as broad as long, the lateral margins 

 nearly obliquely straight, posterior margin moderately concave ; 

 scutellum small, triangular ; head beneath broad, the face narrowed 

 to clypeus, its lateral margins sinuate ; tibiae a little dilated, 

 posterior tibia) thickly longly spinulose ; tegmina broad, a little 

 widened at middle, valvate behind the clavus, apical areas four or 

 five. 



Allied to PeniJiimia, from which it principally differs by the 

 small scutellum and the larger and diffei'ently shaped vertex. 



2492. Tamhila greeni, sp. n. 



Head ochraceous, with two testaceous-brown curved fasciae; 

 pronotum testaceous-brown, a transverse spot at anterior margin 



