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PULGORID.lE. 



Distribution. Ethiopian and Oriental Eegions. 



In a monographic li.st o£ the species of this genus (1893) I 

 ■wpote — "To those who maintain that the first described or 

 enumerated species of a genus is to be taken as the type of that 

 genus, it would appear that a new generic name is required, for 

 the first species cited is the Fulgora candelaria, Linn., which is 

 luidoubtedly not a Pyi-ops in the sense universally used. However, 

 all but some recent Homopterists have followed Spinola's second 

 division as typical, and no useful end would be served in disturbing 

 the arrangement." Subsequently Kirkaldy (1902) proposed the 

 substitution of the generic name Zanna for the group of species 

 Avhich had hitherto been represented by the genus Pyrops, a disturb- 

 ance in nomenclature for which we can see no adequate reason. 



The characters of Pyrops are as follows : — Head forwardly pro- 

 duced in a long process, as long or louger than the abdomen, 

 its apex obliquely truncate, behind the eyes furnished with a 

 subconical or subtriangular callosity, vertex transversely convex, 

 continued to the apex of the process ; eyes small ; second joint of 

 antennae short and thick ; pronotum and mesonotum moderately 

 transversely convex, not ridged, the pronotum gradually anteriorly 

 narrowed, scarcely or very slightly sinuate at base; tegmina 

 almost entirely reticulate, valvate or lobate behind the clavus ; 

 legs robust, short, the anterior trochanters shortly spinous. 



A. Abdomen above fulvous or ocJiraceous. 



1683. Pyrops dohrni, StSl, Of v. Vet. -Ah. Fork. 1858, p. 449; Dist. 

 Tr. E. S. 1893, p. 447 ; Kirk. (Zanna) J. Bomb. N. H. Soc. xiv, 

 p. 48, pi. A, f. 3 (1902). 

 Pyrops mustelinus, Dist. A. M. N. H. (5) xii, p. 243 (1883). 

 Zanna punctata, Melich. Horn. Faun. Ceylon, p. 14, t. i, f. 3 (1903). 



Body and tegmina above and beneath very pale ochraceous, the 

 head, pronotum, mesonotum, sternum, tegmina, and legs minutely 



Fig. 81. — PyrojK dohrni. 



black-spotted ; tegmina with the veins darker ochraceous ; abdo- 

 men cretaceously pilose, especially and prominently on the poste- 

 rior segmental margins ; anal appendage black, thickly and closely 



