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front convex ; clypeus quadrangular, elongate, half the length of 

 face ; pronotum short, angles rounded, anteriorly semicircular ; 

 posterior tarsi with the first joint about equal in length to the 

 two following joints, the second about half shorter than the third ; 

 hemelytra in macropterous forms evidently appendiculated ; $ 

 vagina "cum coleostro" larger than abdomen, " vagina coleostro 

 supra diiplo majore.'' {Lethierrij .) 



Apparently connects Cicadula and Thamnolettiv with Delto- 

 cepludus; remarkable for the very developed triangular vertex, the 

 large, oblong, obliquely placed eyes, and the $ genital organs 

 which are longer than the rest of the abdomen. 



2641. Acoimra COlombensis, Melich. Horn. Faun. Ceylon, p. 187 

 (1903). 



" Body short, compressed, rather broad ; vertex, pronotum and 

 tegmina shining green ; vertex triaugularly produced, as long as 

 broad at base, arched, above often yellowishly coloured ; head 

 beneath brownish-yellow ; face twice as long as medially broad, 

 narrowed to clypeus, with two rows of very short brownish dashes, 

 which are often entirely absent; "ziigel" semicircular, in middle 

 of "ziigelnaht" an extremely little black dot; clypeus twice as 

 long as broad, lorigly spatulate, projecting somewhat beyond the 

 tips of the cheeks ; the antenual bristles dark, very long, extending 

 to half the length of body ; eyes reddish-brown ; pronotum as long 

 as vertex and in front strongly curved, behind flatly bayed, nearly 

 straight, the sides very short, on the disk two closely placed 

 quadrangular impressions are visible ; scutellum short, triangular, 

 with a deepened transverse line ; tegmina hyaline, green, slightly 

 rounded behind, not covering abdominal apex ; veins delicate, of 

 the ground colour of the tegmina, terminal cells short ; wings 

 hyaline, transparent, with yellowish veins ; pectus black ; abdomen 

 black, borders of segments yellow or broAvnish-yellow and the base 

 of the segmental borders black ; back black ; legs pale brownish- 

 yellow, tips of tarsi and claws dark ; posterior tibi« on inner side 

 sometimes indistinctly striped with brownish, brown dots at bases 

 of pale spines." (IlelicJuir.) 



"Length, d 2i, 2 3 milhm." 



Hab. Ceylon ; Colombo (Jide Melichar.) 



2642. Aconura solitaris, Melich. Horn. Faim. Ceylon, p. 188 (1903). 



Vertex, pronotum aud scutellum brownish-ochraceous ; vertex 

 with two dark longitudinal impressed spots near base ; pronotum 

 with two transverse linear impressions near anterior margin 

 and with a distinct central longitudinal ridge ; scutellum with a 

 transverse central impression ; body beneath black ; head beneath, 



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