JADA. 299 



1847. Pamendanga rubilinea, sp. n. 



Body and legs pale ocbraceous ; a curved fascia on underside of 

 eyes ; disk of sternum and abdomen beneath more or less suffused 

 with dark castaneous ; tegmina semihyaline, venation brownish, 

 in some places like the transverse veins fuscous, some irregular 

 fuscous suffusions, which are most prominent at base, lower 

 medial urea, in radial and beyond radial ai-ea, centi'e of lower 



Fig. 143. — Pamendanga ruhilinca. 



postcostal vein bright carmine-red ; wings semihyaline, more or 

 less suffused with fuscous, palely on apical area, aud deeply fasciate 

 on anal area. In some, perhaps fresher, specimens the pronotum 

 and posterior angle of mesonotum are virescent and the basal area 

 of the abdomen stramineous ; on the costal margin of tegmina 

 beyond middle there are five minute carmine-red spots. 



Length excl. tegm. 4 ; exp. tegm. 16| millim. 



Hah. Tenasseriiu ; Myitta {Doherty). 



Genus JADA, nov. 



Type, J. nitagalensis, Kirby. 



Distribution. Ceylon. 



Head (including eyes) considerably narrower than pronotum ; 

 vertex very narrow, produced and curved do\^nward considerably 

 in front of eyes, its central area sulcate ; face laminately angularly 

 projecting ; clypeus large, tricarinate ; antennae inserted beneath 

 the eyes, seconcl joint of moderate length, robust ; pronotum about 

 as long as eyes, posteriorly strongly subangularly emarginate, 

 obsoletely tricarinate ; mesonotum large, convex, strongly tri- 

 carinate ; legs moderately long and slender, posterior tibiae with a 

 single spine, posterior tarsi with the basal joint very long ; tegmina 

 strongly subangularly sinuate before middle of costal margin at apex 

 of costal membrane, which is somewhat abruptly discontinuous, 

 the postcostal area much ampliated towards apex and containing 

 three transverse veins, the first short and slightly oblique, the outer 

 two longitudinally curved, the upper longitudinal vein with a trans- 

 verse vein above at a little beyond middle, and beneath emitting 

 long, curved, oblique veins to posterior margin, about two trans- 

 verse veins on disk, and about the same number beyond radial 

 area ; wings nearly half as long as tegmina. 



