246 FULGORID.E. 



Genus PUTALA. 

 Putala, Melich. Horn. Faun. Ceylon, p. 26 (1903). 



Type, P. rostrata, Melich. 



DislrihutiotK Oriental and Ethiopian Regions. 



Head produced in a distinctly elongate somewhat slender 

 process, longitudinally salcate above and at lateral areas, broadly 

 and strongly sulcate between eyes, where there are two 

 strongly convex ridges, one at inner margin of each eye, and 

 between them a faint central carination ; face long, gradually 

 broadened towards apex, with a central and lateral carination ; 

 clypeus with a central ridge, its lateral margins strongly carinate ; 

 pronotum anteriorly medially angularly produced, its anterior 

 angles subacute, centrally strongly ridged, its posterior margin 

 moderately concave ; mesouotum not carinate or tricarinate ; 

 abdomen short ; rostrum long, extending to basal area of abdomen ; 

 legs moderately long and slender, the femora and tibia? longitu- 

 dinally grooved ; posterior tibite with five spines ; tegmina apically 

 rounded, claviis without a transverse vein ; stigma broad with 

 five veins, apical third with transverse veins ; wings with a few 

 transverse veins at apes, 



a, Mesonotum non-carinate. 



1780. Putala rostrata, Melich. Horn. Faun. Ceylon, p. 26, t. i, f. 8, 

 a,b (1903). 



Head lengthened and conically produced before eyes, the 

 projection as long as the pronotum and half of mesonotum 

 together, a brown longitudinal stripe runs from eyes to its apex ; 

 face smooth at base and rather impressed at apex, with a 

 central longitudinal ridge ; clypeus rather long and narrow, 

 ridged medially and marginally, and like face brownish-yellow, 

 its apex dark brown ; eyes brown ; antenna; short ; ocelli present ; 

 pronotum medially ridged, two long longitudinal keels on each 

 side behind eyes, yellowish-white «ith small brown dots on each 

 side, the vertex brown ; mesonotum longer than broad, arched, 

 without keels, brown with three longitudinal stripes on front 

 margin which are abbreviated posteriorly, its posterior angle 

 rusty yellow; tegmina long, narrow, and rounded posteriorly, 

 traversed by brown and slightly bronzed veins, several irregularly 

 divided transverse veins in apical area ; stigma large and brown, 

 with three or four transverse veins ; abdomen yellowish-brown, 

 the posterior segmental margins pale, two longitudinal central 

 maculate fasciae, and a smaller and more indistinct lateral maculate 

 fascia on each side ; abdomen beneath brown, the segmental 

 margins paler; legs brownish-yellow; femora black, linearly streaked 

 with black or brown ; posterior tibiae with five spines. 



2 . Length 11 ; ex p. tegm. 17 millim. 



Hob. Ceylon (Jldc Melicliar). 



