402 JASSID^. 



26G9. Empoasca rufa, Melich. Horn. Faun. Ceylon, p. 212, t. vi, f. 2, 

 a, b (1903). 



" Somewbat lonp;. elongated ; searlet-red ; vei'tex a little longer 

 than the breadth between eyes, not angularly produced iu front, 

 nearly rounded, arched above, with a zigzag pale transverse band 

 medially interrupted, which is broad at inner margins of the eyes 

 and pointed inwards ; face somewhat long, narrow, and like 

 antennae of a pale red colour ; eyes greyish-brown ; pronotum one 

 and a half times as long as vertex, in front behind flatly bayed, 

 and like scutellum pale red ; tegmina somewhat long, the sides 

 parallel, rounded off posteriorly, hyaline with delicate veins, pale 

 red, the apical area hyaline, transparent, faintly coloured with 

 yellowish ; on costal margin a somewhat long opaque white oval 

 spot ; wings hyaline, vitreous, with red veins ; body beneath and 

 legs red ; tibiae more yellowish, claws dark." (MeUchar.) 



Length 4 to 41 mm. 



Hab. Ceylon ; Peradeniya (Green). Tenasserlm ; Myitta 

 (Boherty). 



My specimens agree well with Melichar's description save in 

 possessing " the long opaque white oval spot on costal margin." 

 In one example such a spot is clearly indicated, but it is more vex'y 

 pale reddish than white. 



2670, Empoasca ceiitromaculata, 3Ielich. Horn. Faun. Ceylon, p. 213, 

 t. vi, f. 7, a, d (1903). 



" Pale yellowish ; vertex twice as broad as long, in front broadly 

 I'ounded, not produced, rounded to the front, above arched with a 

 depi'essed middle line in nape ; eyes large, sessile, brown to black, 

 in dried specimens greyish-brown and only the front and hind 

 angles deep black ; face somewhat long, twice as long as broad, 

 with two series of short yellowish transverse streaks and two 

 indistinct spots on apex ; clypeus broad at base, narrowed to apex, 

 which projects beyond tips of cheeks, ' ziigel ' longish, narrow, 

 also the cheeks ; pronotum one and a half times as long as vertex, 

 yellowish, the posterior margin \\hitish, or the whole pronotum 

 whitish, near anterior margin a protuberance running parallel with 

 same, on central disk a large black spot from whicli a fine brown 

 line runs right and left towards the sides, sometimes also a similar 

 very short line extends towards the anterior margin ; scutellum 

 triangular, yellowish, with a narrow rusty-yellow triangle in basal 

 angles and a medial transverse impressed line ; tegmina hyaline, 

 dirty-yellow, longer than the abdomen, costal and terminal 

 marginal veins dark brown, three terminal cells, the outer one 

 triangular, the sectors indistinct, no veins in clavus but only a few 

 impressed points ; wings hyaline, suffused with milky-white, veins 

 brown, first sector the thickest and fused with second before apex 



