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interrupted ; legs finely spotted with pieeous, the tibial spinules 

 piceous ; vertex broadly subtriangular, about as long as pronotum ; 

 scutellum with two slightly raised white lines at base, which is a 

 little darker than its apical area ; face slightly convex. 



Length 3i to 4 millim. 



Hah. Ceylon ; Colombo {fide Motschoulsky), Peradeniya {Green), 

 Henaratgoda {fide Melichar). 



Motschoulsky makes no mention of the dark spots to the 

 tegmina,and these clearly constitute only an inconstant character. 



2646. Deltocephalus laetus, Melich. Hotn. Faun. Ceylon, p. 202 

 (1903). 



" Vertex triangularly produced, above slightly arched and 

 greyish-white like the pronotum and scutellum, behind the eyes is 

 a broad transverse band running from one eye to the other and 

 sometimes interrupted in the middle, the anterior border of pro- 

 notum and the base of scutellum orange-red ; head beneath some- 

 what long, brownish-yellow, on each side of face three or four 

 very short suffused transverse lines ; eyes brown ; tegmina ex- 

 tending in the d to tip of abdomen, in 5 not covering same, 

 hyaline dirty yellowish-brown with rather paler tender veins and 

 a not always distinct orange-yellowish longitudinal stripe near the 

 costal border which is pale translucent ; membrane and apical 

 border brownish, the short terminal cells usually distinctly white 

 from a dark ground ; wings smoky-brown ; pectus and abdomen 

 brown or black, more or less strongly darkly marked ; legs 

 brownish-yellow, posterior tibice on the inside with black longi- 

 tudinal stripes." {Melichar.) 



" Length, c? 2^ millim., $ 3| millim." 



Hab. Ceylon ; Peradeniya {fide Melichar). 



2647. Deltocephalus oneratus, Melich. Horn. Faun. Ceylon, p. 202 

 (1903). 



Head and pronotum ochraceous ; vertex with \\\o large black 

 transverse spots on anterior margin divided by a pale central line, 

 which more narrowly is continued to base and on basal area is 

 margined on each side with black, a small dark spot before the 

 eyes which are inwardly margined with very pale ochraceous ; 

 pronotum with a large prominent black spot on each side, two 

 central black lines on basal area, and a minute black spot near 

 middle of anterior margin ; scutellum very pale ochraceous, with 

 a central longitudinal black spot widened at anterior margin 

 where it contains two small pale spots ; tegmina dull greyish with 

 piceous markings, a prominent oblique greyish streak at base,, 

 another near middle, and shadings of a similar colour on apical 



