400 



JASSIDJ;. 



Synojjsis of Genera. 



A. Pronotum shorter than vertex Homa, p. 400. 



B. Pronotum as long or considerably longer than 



vertex. 



a. Face open or not closed above Em:poasca, p. 401. 



b. Face closed above, the frontal sutures con- 



nected below by an acute angle, or bow- 

 shaped with one another Heliona, p. 407. 



Genus HOMA, uov. 



Type, H. insignis, Dist. 



Distribution. Ceylon. 



Vertex siibquadrate, longer than breadth between eyes at base, 

 rounded but very slightly produced in front of eyes, which are 

 almost as long as the vertex and do not project over the anterior 

 angles of the pronotum ; face long, broad, narrowing to clypeus 

 which is short and broad ; pronotum shorter than vertex, trans- 

 verse, a little rounded in front, the lateral margins nearly straight ; 

 scutellum broad, subtriangular ; legs slender, posterior tibiae 

 strongly spinulose and shghtly curved ; tegraiua long, much 

 longer than abdomen, apical cells three, large, and subequal in 

 length. 



2668. Homa insignis, sp. n. 



Vertex, pronotum and scutellum scar!et-red ; vertex at inner 

 margins of eyes narrowly greyish-red ; face and clypeus red, apical 



Fig. 248. — Homa insignis. 



margin of the latter pale yellowish ; sternum and legs stramineous ; 

 abdomen beneath more or less pale scarlet-red, its apical area 



