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2686. Typlilocyba jaina, sp. n. 



Vertex, pronotiiin and scutelluin pale flavescent ; vertex with 

 an apical black spot which is sometimes large and rounded or 

 narrow and transvei'se and almost medially interrupted and seen 

 beneath at base of face ; eyes black ; pronotum with a transverse 

 brown fascia a little behind middle ; scutellum with a prominent 

 black spot near each basal angle ; face with its lateral margins 

 brown ; abdomen above piceous, beneath brown ; tegmina sub- 

 hyaline, a subcostal and a claval streak pale brown ; wings milky- 

 white with the veins pale brown ; vertex shorter than the breadth 

 between eyes, its anterior margin subangularly rounded ; pronotum 

 somewhat strongly arched ; scutellum transversely impressed near 

 middle. 



Length 3 millim. 



Hah. Calcutta (^Annandale) ; Katihar, Dist. Purneah (Paiva). 



2687. Typhlocyba (Zygina) subnifa, Mofsch. (Tbanmotettix) Bull. 

 Soe. Nat. Muse. xxx\i,S, p. 100 (1863); Melich. (Typhlocyba 

 (Zjgina)) Horn. Faun. Ceylon, p. 218 (1903). 



" Elongate, subparallel, sliining, rufous-testaceous ; abdomen and 

 eyes black ; tegmina somewhat palely white, apex inf uscate, veins 

 w^hite ; legs pale ; head subtransverse, subconvex, anteriorly 

 incrassately-truncate, impunctate ; ocelli in front, scarcely 

 distinct ; eyes transverse, subovate, a little prominent ; pronotum 

 almost the breadth of head, strongly transverse, unequal, medially 

 slightly carinate, anteriorly arcuate, posteriorly somewhat sinu- 

 ately-truncate, angles somewhat rounded ; metanotum trapezoidal, 

 shining, with scutellum testaceous ; tegmina as broad as head, 

 posteriorly parallel, hyaline, corium rugosely punctate." (J/oi- 

 sclioulsky.) 



Length 2| to '6\ millim. 



Hah. Ceylon ; Diyatalawa {Bahibridge-Fletcher)., Weligama 

 {Green)., Colombo {fide Motschoidslcij). 



I have several specimens exactly agreeing with the above 

 description. 



2688, Typhlocyba maculifrons, Motsch. Bull. Sac. Nat. Mosc. xxxvi, 

 3, p. 103 (1863) ; Melich. (Typhlocyba (Zygina)) Horn. Faun. 

 Ceylon, p. 219 (1903). 



I use Melichar's description of this species taken from Ceylonese 

 specimens which he has identified with Motschoulsky's diagnosis. 



" Head, pronotum and scutellum yellow, vertex not produced, 

 its margin rounded, at apex a large black spot ; face somewhat 



