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Genus PSILOLOMIA. 



Psilolomia, Bredd. Ann. Soc. Ent. Behj. liii, p. 292 (1909). 



Type, V. brevitahilis, Bi-edd, 



Distribution. Ceylon. 



This genus is evidently closely allied to the preceding genus, 

 Neolwplolomia, Dist., but I have not seen an example, and am 

 unable at the present time to see the type. Should it prove con- 

 generic, which I cannot make it out to be from the description, 

 Breddin's name would take precedence. 



Psilolomia brevitabilis, Bredd. A?m. Soc. Ent. BeJg. liii, p. 293 

 (1909). 



Bah. Ceylon; Triiicomalee. 



Genus LEPTOCORISA. (Vol. J, p. 409.) 

 Leptocorixa, Bergr. J. Bcnnh. y. H. Soc. xxiv, p. 173 (1915). 



LbPTOCOKISA YARICORNIS. (A^ol. I, p. 409.) 



Zefroi/, " Lid. Ins. Life," p. 684 (1900); Bain.-Fletch., "Some 



S. ind. Lis." pp.82, 146, 479 (1914). 

 Leptocorixa variicoinis, Beror. J. Bomb. N. II. Soc. xxiv, p. 173 



(1915;. 



This insect is reported from India as living normally 

 among grass and thick vegetation, but multiplving very largely in 

 rice fields, and is one of the few seriously injurious Heteroptera. 



Leptocoeisa acuta, (Vol. I, p. 410.) 



Stehbing, Circ. Agricult. Econ. Eiit., No. 1. 



" When young this insect is most destructive, sucking out the 

 ■juices of the stems of the rice plants." " Found all over rhe East 

 on the rice plant" {Orgza sativa). 



3735. Leptocorisa lepida, Bredd. Ann. Soc Ent. Belg. liii. p. 293 



(1909). 



" Allied to L. varicornis, Fabr., but much smaller and more 

 slender, the apex of the head between the conically pointed ends 

 of the jugae with very distinct and almost right-angled margins; 

 the frontal forks sharp and distinct ; antennae pitchy-black, basal 

 joint reddisli-yellow or yellowish-brown, above darker, the slightly 

 thickened apex pitchy-black, a broad subbasal ring on the fourth 

 and the base of the third and second antennal joints whitish- 

 yellow, a marginal spot on the anterior collar of the pronotum 

 black ; a small spot on the pronotal basal tubercles blackish, the 

 black-punctured clavus and the inner part of tlie coriuni 



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