302 FULGORID.T. 



at base and apex ; tegmiaa very pale fuliginous, semihyaline, the 

 Aenation pale fuscous ; costal membrane and postcostal area red, 

 pale ocbraceous for a short distance at a little beyond base, apical 

 margin fuscous, with the apices of the veins ocbraceous, the veins 

 of the upper apical area i*ed, a fuscous spot at the bases of 

 the upper two apical areas, and another fuscous spot beneath 

 about middle of costal area ; wings very small, fuliginous, sub- 

 liyaline, the venation and the apex fuscous ; the narrow face 

 strongly ridged between eyes ; central cai'ination to clypeus 

 prominent ; second joint of antenna? very long, moderately in- 

 crassate, pale ocbraceous, testaceously granulate ; tegmina broadly 

 ampliate on posterior margin at about one-third from base, their 

 apical margins truncate. 



Length excl. tegm. 4; exp. tegm. 26 to 27 millim. 



Hob. Ceylon {Yerhury Sf Green). 



As Mr. Kirby remarked, this species is allied to Z. ephemeralis. 

 Walk., from New Guinea ; I have also another allied species from 

 Borneo. 



1852. Zoraida lankana, Kirby (Thracia), J. Linn. Soc, Zool. xxiv, 



p. 143 (1891) ; Melich. Horn. Faun. Ceylon, p. 57 (1903). 



Head and mesonotum brownish-ochraceous ; pronotum stra- 

 mineous ; abdomen above and body beneath and legs brownish- 

 ochraceous ; abdomen above with lateral brown spots, anal 

 segment more or less bright red ; tegmina semihyaline, the vena- 

 tion fuscous-brown, costal vein red, costal area ocbraceous and 

 from about end of basal third to apex containing a series of pro- 

 minent brown spots, apices of the veins at apical and posterior 

 margins minutely infuscate, and the same remark applies to the 

 bases of the veins beneath the costal membrane, the obliquely 

 transverse discal veins and those at apex of radial area also 

 moderately infuscate, and a fuscous spot at apex of claval area ; 

 Avings very short and small, very pale fuHginous, the veins darker; 

 second joint of antennae very long, ocbraceous, slightly incrassate 

 at apex, where it is distinctly red, and the whole very finely and 

 minutely speckled with red ; carinse to face and clypeus very dis- 

 tinct ; tegmina distinctly finely serrate on basal third of costal 

 margin. 



Length excl. tegm. 4 ; exp. tegm. 22 to 25 millim. 



Hah. Ceylon ; Nawalapitya ( Qreen). 



1853. Zoraida rufivena, sp. n. 



Body above tawny-grey, beneath with legs very pale ocbraceous ; 

 margins of vertex, cai-inations to mesonotum (of which the two 

 outermost are outwardly curved and do not reacli anterior margin), 

 posterior margin of mesonotum, and a central longitudinal line to 

 abdomen above greyish ; upper surface of abdomen near middle 

 obscurely suffused with piceous ; tegmina greyish subhyaline 



