288 



FULGOEID.E. 



a sharp trausA'ei'se ridge aud narrower than at base ; vertex some- 

 what long, narrowed anteriorly and concavely excavate between 

 the prominent outer margins ; clypeus triangular, ridged medially 

 and laterally, the central ridge slight ; eyes semicircular ; autenna? 

 very short, second joint thickened and shortly oval ; ocelli absent ; 

 prouotum very narrow, posteriorly very strongly emarginate ; 

 mesonotum as long as broad, scarcely keeled ; tegmina narrow, 

 base of costal margiu curved inward, two lougitudinal veins in 

 corium, outer one forked near base and the second before middle, 

 outer branch united with first longitudinal vein by a transverse 

 vein, several transverse veins in apical area, outer forked branch 

 in clavus granulated at base; wings as long as tegmina ; posterior 

 tibiae unarmed. 



1S33. Vekunta tenella, Melkh. (Temesa) Horn. Faun. Ceylon, p. 41, 

 t. iii, f. U,a,b,c (1903). 



"Head, pronotum, and antennse 

 pale yellow ; mesonotum orange- 

 yellow ; eyes black ; face rather 

 darker ; vertex thickly covered 

 with yellow warts ; tegmina hya- 

 line, dirty brownish-yellow, apical 

 area smoky-brown, costal margin 

 rather paler aud set with ex- 

 tremely fine granules ; wings 

 slightly fuliginous with dark veins ; 

 abdomen aud legs orange-yellow, 

 the latter paler." (MelicJiar.) 

 Length, d , 5k millira. 

 Hab. Ceylon ; Peradeniya (fide 

 Melicliar). 



I only know this genus and 

 species by Melichar's figures and 

 descriptions ; I have re])roduced the first and endeavoured to 

 give the salient points of the latter. 



Pig. 136. — VcJcuiita tenella. 



1834. Vekunta punctula, Melich. (Temesa) Horn. Faun. Ceylon, p. 41 

 (1903;. 



" Similar to T. tenella, and only distinguished by the neck of 

 the vertex having a deep triangle in which the flattened warts are 

 absent ; on each side of the outer areas of the presternum is a 

 large black spot, which is wanting in T. tenella ; other characters 

 as in that species." (Melichar.) 



Length 5| millim. 



Hab. Ceylon, Negombo (fide Melichar). 



I have no personal knowledge of this species. 



