130 SPOLTA ZEYLANTCA. 



readily separate the present genus. In them the anterior nervure 

 forms one piece, it being in one continuous rounded curve ; the 

 second nervure is joined to it by.a transverse nervure. The hind legs 

 are very long. 



41. — Clatha longipes, sp. nov. 



Rufo-testaceous, a line of equal width, enclosing the ocelli, across 

 the vertex, a line on the centre of the mesonotum extending from the 

 base to near the apex, a shorter, broader line on the sides, more 

 irregular in form, not commencing at the base, but reaching to the 

 apex, the scutellar depression, the base and apex of the scutellum, 

 the base of the metanotum, a line down its centre and one of similar 

 size on the sides, a band on the centre of the propleurae, a smaller one 

 on the mesopleurse, and one on the base of the metapleurse, black. 

 Four front legs yellowish testaceous, the hinder black, their coxae 

 testaceous, with a black line on the outer side. Antennae filiform, 

 longer than the body, black, the base testaceous below. Wings 

 hyaline, the nervures and stigma black, cS (?) 



Length to apex of second abdominal segment 9 mm. (the other seg- 

 ments missing). 



Kandy, July. 



Head smooth and shining ; the lower part of the face, clypeus, 

 mandibles, the parts behind and before the ocelli, yellow. Meso- 

 notum and scutellum rugosely punctured ; the metanotum closely 

 reticulated. Pleurae coarsely, rugosely reticulated, the centre of the 

 propleurae and mesopleurae striated. Legs densely shortly pilose ; 

 the hind femora streaked with testaceous below. The basal two 

 set^ments of the abdomen are as long as the thorax ; are thin, of 

 equal length, and the first is dilated at the apex. 



42. — Trichomma nigricans, sp. nov. 



Black ; face, clypeus, mandibles, orbits all round, a broad band 

 narrowed at the base on the pronotum, tegulae, scutellum, four front 

 coxae and trochanters, the fore femora and the four front femora 

 and tibiae anteriorly, the calcaria and the hind coxae broadly at the 

 base above, yellow. Wings hyaline, the nervures and stigma 

 black, ?. 



Length 16 mm. 



Kandy, August. 



Head covered with white pubescence, smooth ; the front with a 

 striated band which gets narrower below. Mesonotum opaque, 

 the furrows and the part at their apex irregularly reticulated ; 

 the apex in the middle finely, closely, transversely striated. Scutel- 

 lum smooth. Metanotum coarsely reticulated, as are also the pleurae. 



