PrLASTYA. 



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Genus PULASTYA, nov. 



Type, P. acutipennis, Kirby. 



Distribntion. Oriental and Malayan Regions. 



Allied to Phi/lh/pJianta, but diffei'ing by the much less produced 

 vertex of head and by the tegmina having the costal mem- 

 brane considerably narrower than the radial area, the latter 

 having distinct oblique transverse veins which are reticulately 

 connected. 



2009. Pulastya acutipennis, Ei'rbi/ (Phyllyphanta), J. Linn. Soc, 



Zool. xxiv, p. 156, t. vi, f. 6 (1891). 

 Phyllyphanta dubia, Kirhy, torn. cit. p. 157. 

 Flata cormitipeums, Kirk. J. Nat. Hist. Soc. Bomb, xiv, p. 53 



(1901) ; Melich. (Phyllyphanta) (part.) Ann. Hoftnus. Wien, 



xvii, p. o5, t. iii, f. 10 (1902). 



Body more or less virescent, legs pale ochraceous ; head, pro- 

 notum, and mesonotum with a central longitudinal pale castaneous 

 fascia which contains a central darker line ; tegmina pale virescent, 

 becoming somewhat pale tawny towards apical area, most of the 

 cellular areas very obscurely centrally greyish, the posterior margin 



Fig. 217. — Pidastya acutipennis. 



from a short distance from base to end of claval area pale brownish, 

 aud thence to outer angle finely spotted with pale brownish ; wings 

 creamy-white. 



Length excl. tegm, 8 to 9 : exp. tegm. 25 to 26 millim. 



Hah. Ceylon; Maskeliya, Kaudy ((7r6c?i). Tenasserim ; Myitta 

 {Dohertij). 



Kirkaldy proposed the name of cornutipennis for this species, 

 considering it was congeneric with acutijjennis, Walk., a species of 

 Phylhiplicmta, and therefore was clearly preoccupied. In my view 

 the two species belong to different genera, and hence Kirby's name 

 stands. 



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