254 FULGOBID^. 



Genus SYMPLANA. 



Symplana, Kirby, J. Linv. Sac, ZooL xxiv, p. 136 (1891) ; Melich. 

 Mom. Faun. Ceylon, p. 19 (1903). 



Type, S. viridinervis, Kirby. 



Distribution. Ceylon. 



Head and thorax above broadly and profoundly longitudinally 

 sulcate ; head produced in a somewhat upcurved cephalic process 

 before the eyes, sulcate above, the edges emarginate ; face long, 

 with a central and two lateral carinas, one on each side, the last 

 only extending to about middle from apex, and for this distance 

 the edges are also carinate, giving the appearance of five carinse as 

 described by Kirby ; legs of moderate length, posterior tibiae with 

 a single spine placed beyond middle ; tegmina long and slender, 

 not apically ampliated, with longitudinal simple veins, on about 

 apical fifth with transverse, oblique, and longitudinal veinlets ; 

 clavus without a transverse vein ; wings with about two trans- 

 verse veins near apex. 



I have followed Kirby and Melichar in enumerating this 

 genus among the Dictyopharinci', but I do so with considerable 

 doubt and hesitation. 



1790. Symplana viridinervis, Kirbi/, J. Linn. Soc, Zool. xxiv, 

 p. 130, t. vi, f. 11 (1891) ; Melich. Hoyn. Faun. Ceylon, p. 19 

 (1903). 



Greenish in fresh specimens, ochraceous in older or cabinet 

 examples ; the central sulcation to the head and thorax above 

 sanguineous ; body beneath and legs a little paler in hue, apices of 



the tarsi piceous ; tegmina sub- 

 hyaline, somewhat talc-like, the 

 venation ochraceous, the edge of 

 inner margin sanguineous, a 

 double series o^ transverse a^Rs 

 a little before apex, the outeruiost 

 straight, the inner series obliquely 

 angulate, beyond these transverse 

 Fig. \V2.— Symplana viridinervis. series the upper portion of the 



apical area is obliquely and the 

 lower portion longitudinally veined ; wings a little paler and more 

 hyaline than the tegmina. 



Length excl. tegm. 6 ; exp. tegra. 13 millim. 

 Hah. Ceylon ; Pundaluoya {Green). 



Dictyopliara fuminervis, Leth. Bull. Soc. Zool. Fr. 1892, p. 208. 



I ha\e failed to identify this species. The characters given of 

 " pronotum unicarinatum " and the posterior tibiae as " quinque- 

 spinosis " separate it from any species of Dictyopliara here 

 enumerated, and it may belong to another genus altogether. 



