418 JASSID^. 



by a dark impressed line ; tegDiina white, a transverse interrupted 

 black line before middle, immediately behind which on each 

 tegmen is an angulated lemon-yelk w patch, apical area with 

 lemon-yellow shadings on costal and inner margins, tbe former 

 with some transverse dark lines ; body beneath and legs very 

 pale lemon-yellow, a small black spot at the antennal cavities : 

 claws black. 



Length 3i-4 millim. 



Hah. Ceylon; Peradeniya ((rrgen). 



2695. Eiipteryx ochracea, Motsch. (Diomma) Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. 

 xxxvi, 3, p. 102, t. ii, f. 21 (1863) ; Melich. (Eupteryx) Horn. 

 Faun. Ceylon, p. 212 (1903). 



" Elongate, somewhat shining, ochraceous ; head, pronotum and 

 tegmina with the apical margins with white spots, three punctures 

 to the clypeus and the abdomen black, segments beneath margined 

 with white ; eyes posteriorly subconical and prolongate, scarcely 

 prominent, cinereous-fuscous ; front and legs pale ; head tri- 

 angular, posteriorly strougly and profoundly areuately concave : 

 pronotum transversely subovate, posteriorly at each side on 

 margins piceausly punctured ; mesonotum trapezoidal, 'deplanato,' 

 two black spots at base ; scutellum narrower than mesonotum, 

 triangular ; tegmina anteriorly distinctly attenuated, medially 

 dilated, posteriorly parallel, spotted with fuscous and white, veins 

 towards apex white." (Motschoulsl->/.) 



"Length 1^ lin. ; lat. cap. ^ lin." 



Hab. Ceylon ; Patannas (fide Motsclioidshy). 



I have not seen this species. 



Genus MOTSCHULSKIA. 



Conometopus, Motsch. Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. xxxvi, 3, p. 103 (1863) ; 



Melich. Horn. Faun. Ceylon, p. 221 (1903), iiom. praeocc. 

 Motschulskia, Kirk. Wien. eiit. Zeit. xxiv, p. 266 (1905), n. nom. 



Type, M. insinratus, Motsch. 



Distribution. Ceylon. 



" In form elongated and slender as in TypMocyha, but with 

 the vertex distinctly triangularly or conically produced ; head 

 triangular, strongly excavate at base ; ocelli none ; eyes elongate, 

 by no means projecting but appearing conical as seen from above : 

 antennae setaceous, not extending beyond the pronotum, which is 

 transverse, a little attenuated in front, as broad as the base of 

 the head, the angles rounded : mesonotum trapezoidal, distinctly 

 separated from the scutellum whicli is triangular : tegmina 



