ZOEAIDA. 303 



tinged with pale brownish between the veins, which are red and 

 somewhat closely spotted with pale fuscous, costal area with small 

 closely arranged fuscous spots extending beyond middle, after 

 which there is an elongate piceous spot, and an elongately oblique 

 subcostal piceous spot a little before apex, posterior margin from 

 about one-third from base greyish with pale fuscous spots, apical 

 margin with two transverse series of small fuscous spots, those of 

 the inner series minute and placed close together, the transverse 

 discal veins and an oblique discal line before middle piceous, 

 extreme edge of basal costal margin greyish-white ; wings short, 

 pale fuliginous, the veins fuscous ; second joint of antennae 

 moderately long, robust, dull ochraceous. 



Length excl. tegra. 4 ; exp. tegm. 20 millim. 



Hab. Ceylon; Perandeniya (ft-eew). 



1854. Zoraida obsoleta, Kivby (Thracia?), J. Linn. Soc, Zool. xxiv, 



p. 144, t. Y, f. 7 (1891) ; Melich. (Thracia) Horn. Faun. Ceylon, 

 p. 57 (1903). 



Body above dark fuscous-brown ; body beneath and legs ochra- 

 ceous ; tegmina and wings pale semihyaliue, bases of both fuscous- 

 brown, tegmina with a prominent piceous spot near end of claval 

 area ; eyes fuscous-brown ; thoracic carinations somewhat slight ; 

 tegmina broadened at about one-fourth from base and moderately 

 ampliated to apex, the posterior margin very slightly convex, the 

 apical margin truncate ; wings very short, not reaching anal angle 

 of tegmina. 



Length excl. tegm. 4 ; exp. tegm. 24 millim. 



Hah. Ceylon; Pundaluoya, Maskeliya (Gree/i). 



1855. Zoraida motschoulskyi, sp. n. 



Vertex of head and thorax above very pale luteous, eyes 

 browuish-ochraceous ; abdomen above castaneous, its base and disk 

 stramineous, the anal appendage testaceous ; body beneath and 

 legs stramineous ; tegmina and wings subhyaline, venation stra- 

 mineous ; tegmina with the costal area stramineous, and near apex 

 exhibiting a piceous bifurcating venal spot, to which is attached, 

 and of the same coloiir, the transverse vein at the base of the 

 adjoining apical area, a piceous spot near middle of anal margin ; 

 second joint of antennae ver}^ long, its apex inf uscate ; mesonotum 

 obsoletely tricarinate ; vertex of head somewhat triangular ; teg- 

 mina ampliated at about one-third from base, their apices ti-uncate ; 

 wings short, almost reaching apex of anal angle. 



Length excl. tegm. 4 ; exp. tegm. 24 millim. 



Hah. Ceylon, Maskeliya {Green). 



1856. Zoraida gilva, sp. n. 



Body above fulvous-brown, apex of abdomen ochraceous ; body 

 beneath, antennae, and legs pale stramineous ; tegmina and wings 

 semihyaline, the venation very pale ochraceous, tegmina w-ith a 



