STACOTA, 281 



182G. Leusaba rufitarsis, Kirhj (Stacota), J. Linn. Soc, Zoo/, xxiv. 

 p. 134 (1891). 

 Leusaba margiualis, Melich. {nee Walk.) Horn. Faun. Ceylon. 

 p. 29, t. i, f. 10, a, b (1903). 



Body and legs somewhat dark virescent ; a trausverse fascia 

 to vertex of head, anterior and lateral margins and central ridge 

 to face, two central ridges to pronotum, ridges to mesonotum, and 

 sometimes the apices of the spines to posterior tibire sanguineous- 



Fig. 130. — Leiisaha rufitarsis. 



red ; a black spot on anterior coxae, and legs more or less 

 streaked with black : tegmina and wings hyaline, the venation 

 piceous ; tegmina with the extreme base dull virescent with two 

 black spots. 



Length excl. tegm. 9 ; exp. tegm. 2G millim. 



Hah. Ceylon ; Kandy, Pundaluoya {Green'). 



Melichar {supra) has regarded this species as synonymous with 

 the Bornean L. mare/inalis, Walk., but the relative lengths of the 

 apical and subapical areas to the tegmina will readily divide the 

 two species. 



Genus STACOTA. 



Stacota, Stal, Berl. e?it. Zeitsclir. iii, p. 324 (1859) ; Melic/i. Annal. 

 Ji.-k. naturh. Hofmus. p. 325 (1898). 



Type, S. breviceps. Walk. 



Distrilmtion. Ceylon. 



Head narrower than pronotum ; vertex longer than broad, its 

 anterior and lateral margins and a central longitudinal line cari- 

 nate ; face longer than broad, obliquely narrowed before middle 

 towards clypeus, centrally and laterally carinate ; clypeus centrally 

 carinate, its lateral margins simple ; pronotum shorter than vertex, 

 anteriorly somewhat conically produced, posteriorly subangularly 

 emarginate, tricarinate, the lateral carinae oblique ; mesonotum 

 tricarinate, the lateral carinse anteriorly converging ; legs rather 

 long, posterior tibise witli two spines : tegmina ampliated towards 

 apex, costal membrane with somewhat widely separated transverse 



