308 JASSIDJE. 



above and beneath tenuinatii^g in a transverse black line, vertex 

 and a number of minute spots on anterior margin of pronotum 

 paler ; scutellum with the basal half infuscate, apical area less so ; 

 tegmina obscure pellucid vinaceous, veins fuscous speckled with 

 white, a discoloured medial fascia." 



" Head broader than prouotu.m, broadly subangulately rounded, 

 anteriorly distinctly attenuated ; vertex subarcuate, medially longi- 

 tudinally and on each side transversely obliquely rugulose ; front 

 to\\ards base transversely depressed, longitudinally rugose ; genge 

 rugulose; pronotum medially three times longer than the vertex, 

 anteriorly rounded, scarcely longer than scutellum ; tegmina tecti- 

 form, a little passing the abdominal apex, excepting the four apical 

 areoles, rugose, from the commissure outwardly by degrees decreas- 

 ing in size ; spines to the posterior tibite with black punctures." 

 (Stdl) 



"Length $ 9. breadth S millim.'' 



" Hab. Ceylon (Coll. Dolirn):' 



Melichar has included this species in the genus Drahescus, 

 though Signoret did not follow this course. I have no personal 

 knowledge of it. 



Genus KUTARA, nov. 



Type, K. hnmnescens, Dist. 



Distrihtition. Ceylon. 



Vertex broad, transverse, convexly rounded anteriorly, short, 

 about equal length throughout, ocelli small, obscure, on anterior 

 margin at a short distance from eyes ; face narrowed on apical 

 area towards clypeus, the apex of which is distinctly broadened, 

 clieeks very broad ; pronotum about twice as long as vertex, 

 anteriorly moderately produced aud rounded between eyes, the 

 lateral margins nearly straight, posterior margin transversely 

 sinuate ; scutellum large, broad, its apex linearly produced, a 

 transverse incision before apical area ; anterior and intermediate 

 legs of moderate length, posterior tibiae somewhat long and thickly 

 longly spinulose ; tegmina moderately broad- and short, apical cells 

 five, three transverse veins (sometimes only two) in claval area, 

 a transverse vein to radial area. (The venation better seen and 

 understood by the typical figure.) 



2557. Kutara hrunnescens, sp. n. 



Vertex stramineous, smooth, with an anterior transverse blae-k 

 line, sometimes centrally widened into a transverse black spot ; 

 pronotum pale brownish with darker mottlings, its anterior area 

 usually but not always suffused with black ; scutellum dull ochra- 

 ceous with an obscure spot near each basal angle, centrally mottled 



