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JASSIDiE. 



2525. Nirvana pseudommatos, Kirk. Entomoloqist, xxxiii, p. 293 



(lUOO) ; Melich. Horn. Faun. Ceylon, p. 165 (1903). 



" Hyaline, eyes yellowish-brown, prouotum and scutellum 

 tinged with stramineous ; in the middle line of the vertex, close 

 to the anterior margin, is a large round blackish-brown sjDot, from 

 which proceeds a thin median line of the same colour, terminating 

 at the base (" apex " auctt.) of scutellum; along the lateral margins 

 of the head (except apically) is a line of the same colour, continued 

 (in the same straight line) on the pronotum ; tegmiua hyaline, 

 sparingly punctured, the punctures scantily piliferous ; membrane 

 pale .salmon-coloured, a large round submedian spot and the 

 apical margin blackish-brown ; three faint fasciae on the corium of 

 the same colour ; ventral surface Avhitish, apex of posterior tibiae 

 and first segment of posterior tarsi blackish." {Kirlaldy .) 



Length 4|millim. 



Hah. Ceylon ; Pundaluoya {Green, fide Kirl-aldi/). 



1 have not seen this species, nor apparently has Melichar. 

 ivirkaldy stated that a coloured representation would appear in 

 another place, but this promise has apparently not been fulfilled. 



2526. Nirvana linealis, sp. n. 



Pale ochraceous-yellow ; vertex with the lateral marginal areas 



Fig. 180.- -Nirvana linealis. 



darker ocbraceous, a small central piceous spot near apex and two 

 central longitudinal piceous lines which are united at basal margin; 



