PETALOCEPIIAI/A. 



2m 



nearly straight for about half their IcDgth and then obliquely 

 narrowed to apex, strongly centrally carinate ; pronotuiu tiuely 



Fig. 160. — ■Pcif(/ocep//ala sitjiiata. 



transversely wrinkled and centrally longitudinally impre.ssed ;. 

 scutelluin transver.sely impressed before apex. 



Length 8-9 mi Him. 



Huh. South India; Kodaikanal (T. V. C'amphell). 



3454. Petalocephala bombayensis, Dist. A. M. N. H. (8) x, p. 441 



(1912). 



Head, pronotum, scutellum, body beneath, and legs very pale 

 virescent or greenish ochraceous ; tegmina subiiyaline, talc-like, 

 the clavus and basal third of costal area pale virescent or greenish 

 ochraceous, inner area of clavus more or less castaneous ; lateral 

 margins of vertex and pronotum and a small central spot on 

 anterior and posterior margins of pronotum castaneoiis; vertex 

 about as long as bi-eadth between eyes, lateral margiiis almost 

 straight for a little before eyes and then subaugidarly rounded to 

 apex, centrally medially carinate ; pronotum centrally finely longi- 

 tudinally impressed, more or less distinctly transversely wrinkled; 

 face strongly flattened from in front of eyes to anterior margin ; 

 posterior tibiae outwardly strongly spiuose. 



Length, § , 9 millim. 



Hah. Bombay {Brit. Mus.). Nilgiri Hills {Sir F. Hampson).. 

 South India; Mysore State and Chikkabailapura {T. V. Camphell). 

 Ceylon; Kandy {H. E. Green). Burma; Buby Mines {Doherty). 



In general coloration allied to 1\ nvjrilinea, Walk., but differ- 

 ing in the larger vertex of head, which is about as long as breadth 

 between eyes. 



Since I described this species under the above name, I have 

 received it from a number of different localities. It was only 

 known to me previously from Bombay. 



ti455. Petalocephala granulosa, Di!<t. Enftunohcjisf, 1910, p, 196. 



Pale virescent ; vertex shorter than breadth between eyes,, 

 finely punctate, , centrally lou<;itudinally finely subcarinate, the 



