SCAPHOIDEUS. 373 



body beneath and legs stramineous ; face with the anterior margin 

 and three more or less transverse lines black. 



Length 5 to 5| milUm. 



Hah. Ceylon ; Peradeniya (G^rt'eu).— Japan {fide Matsumura). 



2()31. Scaphoideiis ornatus, .ydich. Horn. Faun. Ceulm, p. 196. t. V. 



t. y (1903). ' ^ ' 



"Vertex as long as breadth between eyes, triangularly pro- 

 duced, arched above and like pronotuni and scutellum greyish- 

 white, two black parallel arched lines on anterior margin running 

 from one eye to the other, and with a broad orange-yellow 

 transverse fascia between the eyes bordered in front with a dark 

 line ; face pale yellowish-white, with an anterior black arcuate 

 line parallel with margin of vertex, antennal cavities black; 

 pronotum about as long as vertex, anteriorly strongly arcuately 

 produced, posterior margin nearly straight, lateral margins short 

 and parallel, discally arched, with an orange-yellow transverse 

 spot in middle of anterior margin, and a similarly coloured broad 

 transverse band in middle, the ends angularly broken, running 

 into outer mai'gin "where there is a small black dot ; scutellum 

 with an orange-yellow transverse spot at base which does not 

 reach the basal angles and extends to the depressed transverse 

 medial line, beyond this impression the colour is silvery shining 

 white with two black marginal dots on each side ; tegmina some- 

 what long, passing abdominal apex, shining hyahne, with brown 

 veins and brown spots between them which enclose several 

 hyaline spots, there being three or four such hyaline spots in 

 clavus among wliicli is an oblong transverse spot in middle of 

 terminal margin bordered in front by a darker spot, also several 

 spots in middle cell, whereas the costal half of tegmina is hyaline 

 with only a dark brown spot before the middle of costa, costal 

 transverse vein dark brown ; membrane fuliginous, apical margin 

 clear, a black spot at centre of middle apical cell ; wings hyaline 

 with brown veins ; pectus and abdomen yellowish-white, the first 

 above black, beneath only the hind borders of connexivum dark; 

 legs yellowish-white, posterior tibiae with black spots at the bases 

 of pale spines, apices of posterior tibiae and joints of tarsi as well 

 as claws black." (Melichar.) 



"Length 2 54 millim." 



Hah. N. Bengal ; Katihar, Purneah District (Paiva). Ceylon ; 

 Peradeniya (fide Melichar). 



2632. Scaphoideus morosus, Melich. Horn. Faun. Ceylon, p. 197, t. v, 

 f . 14, a-d (1903). 



Vertex, pronotum and scutellum pale greyish-white; vertex 

 with a subapical transverse line and a broad fascia between the 



