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JASSID^. 



Genus ACEOPONA. 



Acropona, Melich. Horn. Faun. Ceylon, p. 1C8 (1903). 



Type, A. prasina., Walk. 



Distribution. Ceylon ; Maldive Islds. 



" Similar to Gypona and Krisna ; differs from Gypona by the 

 ocelli lying on the front border of the vertex near the eyes and 

 from Krisna by the two claval veins being connected with each 

 other by a transverse vein, and by the short vertex, broader than 

 long, ridged in front and with the eyes as broad as pronotum, 

 whereas in Krisna the vertex is distinctly narrower ; face broad ; 

 rostrum short ; otherwise as in Krisna. The direction of the 

 veins in the tegmina is different. (MelicJiar.) 



In Acropona the face possesses a distinct anterior transverse 

 submarginal ridge. 



2548. Acropona prasina, Walk. (Gvpona) List Ham., Suppl. p. 258 

 (18o8) ; 3Ielick. (Acropona) Horn. Faun. Ceylon, p. 168 (1903). 

 ? walkeri, Kirk. Entomoloyist, xxxiii, p. 294 (1900). 

 Eogypona walked, Kirk. Entomologist, xxxiv, p. 39 (1901). 



Above pale green, beneath with legs ochraceous or pale 

 virescent ; eyes purplish-red : vertex about as long as half the 

 width between eyes, its apical margin a little recurved, scutellum 



Fig. 191. — Acro-pona jyrasina. 



transversely arcuately impressed before apical area ; tegmina with 

 about half of costal area broadly subhyaline ; posterior tibiae densely 

 spinulose. 



Length inch tegin. 10 miilim. 



