86 APPEXUIX. JASSIDjE. 



ocliraceous, the lateral area with transverse dark striatioas ; 

 scutellum pale ochraceous, with two small central black spots near 

 base ; (body beneath imperfectly seen in carded type) ; legs pale 

 ochraceous more or less spotted with black ; tegmiua brownish 

 ochraceous mottled with prominent greyish-white spots, the costal 

 area paler with blackish macular markings, apical ai'ea paler with 

 dark apical margin and the venation also blackish ; structural 

 characters as in generic diagnosis. 



Length iuel. tegm. 3 millim. 



Hah. South India; Kodaikanal and Ohikkabaliapura {T. V. 

 CamphelT), 



Genus LEOFA, nov. 



Type, L. mysorensis, Dist. 



Distribution. South India. 



Vertex of head about as long as breadth between eyes, tlie 

 anterior margin subconically or subangidarly produced ; face broad, 

 but distinctly longer than broad ; pronotum about as long as 

 vertex of head, considerabl}^ longer than scutellum, which is more 

 or less triangular; tegmina abbreviated, about reaching middle of 

 abdomen, their posterior margins rounded. 



Allied to Chiasmus (vol. iv, p. 391) by the long vertex of head 

 and posteriorly rounded margins of tegmina, but differing from 

 that genus by the long pronotum, the different structure of the 

 face, and the $ not being macropterous as described by Melichar 

 in his description of his Ceylonese species. 



3623. Leofa mysorensis, sp. n. 



? . Head, pronotum and scutellum ochraceous ; pronotum 





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Fig. 50. — Leofa rni/i^oren.-iis. 



posteriorly darkly suffused ; scutellum with a darker spot at each 

 basal angle, and a central, bhickish, posteriorly angulated linear 



