300 



FULGORTDiE. 



1848. Jada nitagalensis, Kirby (Derbe?), J". Linn. Soc, Zool xxiv, 

 p. 142, t. V. f. 3 (1891). 



Tawny-yellow; A'ertex of head, thoracic carinations, and face 

 nearly pure white ; apices of the tarsi black ; tegmina pale tawny- 

 brown, the veins yellow with whitish semihyaline spots or fascise, 

 one oceu])yiug nearly the whoh? area of costal membrane, three in 



Pig. 114. — Jada iiiiai/a/cjisis. 



postcostal area, one beneath costal membrane and another beneath 

 base of postcostal area, and about twelve others of various sizes 

 scattered from base to apex ; wings semihyaline, the venation 

 broadly tawny-yellow. 



Length excl. tegui. 4 ; exp. tegm. 18 miilim. 



Bab. Ceylon (Ycrh 11 ri/); Nitagaia {Gree:i). 



Dr. Melichar (Horn. Faun. Ceylon, t. ii, f. 14) has figured a 

 species as Thracla nitagalensis, Kirby, which is neither congeneric 

 nor conspecific with Kirby's species. 



Genus ZORAIDA. 



Thracia, Westiv. Tr. L. S. xix, p. 10 (1842) ; Melich. Horn. Faun. 



Ceylon, p. 55 (1903), nom. prseocc. (Moll.). 

 Zoraida, Kirk. Entomologist, 1900, j). 242, n. uom. 



Type, Z. sinuosa, Westw., a West-African species. 



Distribution. Ethiopian and Oriental Kegions. 



Head much narrower than pronotum, vertex triangularly narrow 

 between the eyes : face linear, narrow ; clypeus long, tricarinate ; 

 eyes moderately sinuate beneath ; antennae with the second joint 

 very long ; apical joint of rostrum minute ; pronotum short, tricari- 

 nate, the lateral carinse obsolete ; mesonotum obscurely tricarinate ; 

 legs slender, posterior tibia3 with a distinct spine ; tegmina elon- 

 gate, their apices truncate, a little sinuate at posterior margins, 

 clavus short, the obliquely transverse veins divided by a longi- 

 tudinal discal series of eight transverse veins, thus demarcating 

 twelve or thirteen apical areas ; Mings very short. 



1849. Zoraida pterophoroides, Westto. (Derbe (Thracia)) A. M. N. H. 

 (2) vii, p. 210 (1851); Melich. (Thracia) Horn. Faun. Ceylon, 

 p. m (1903). 



Head, thorax, and legs very pale ochraceous ; anterior femora 

 somewhat testaceous ; abdomen whitish on basal, pale ochraceous 



