434 FULGORID.i:. 



Genus NEPHESA. 



Nepliesa, Amy. S)- Serv. Han. p. 527 (1843) ; Stal, Berl. ent. Zeitschr. 

 \\, p. 313 (1862) : id. Hem. Afr. iv, p. 237 (1866) ; Atkins. J. A. S. 

 Beng. Iv, p. 82 (1886) ; Mellch. Ann. Hofmiis. Wien, xvii, p. 101 

 (1902). 



Type, N. rosea, Spin. 



Distribution. Oriental and Malayan Eegions. Ethiopian? 



Head (including eyes) a little narrower than pronotum ; vertex 

 broad, narrow, anterior margin truncate, anteriorly a little widened 

 on eacli side, the lateral margins ridged ; face a little longer than 

 its greatest breadth, ou its anterior area centrally and sublaterally 

 carinate, narrowed towards clypeus, which is slightly elevated above 

 the plane of the face ; pronotum anteriorly convexly produced, 

 with a faint central ridge which is not quite percurrent ; meso- 

 notum long, tricarinate ; tegmina more or less elongately 

 subtriangular, the margins nearly straight, narrov^'er than the 

 wings, costal margin about as wide as the radial area, sometimes 

 a little wider, the former closely transversely veined, the latter 

 more or less reticulate, the whole surface finely transversely 

 reticulate, two longitudinal veins emitted from upper end of 

 basal cell beneath the radial vein, both strongly furcate at a 

 short distance from base, and ramifying into a series of closely 

 arranged longitudinal veins which are closely and furcately 

 cellularly arranged on apical margin ; wings with two transver&e 

 veins near apex. 



2029. Nephesa coromandelica, spin. (Poeciloptera) Ann. See. Ent. Fr. 

 183!), p. 440 ; AtJdns. (Flata) J. A. S. Beng. Iv, p. 74 (1886) ; 

 Melich. (Nephesa) Ayin. Hofmus. Wien, xvii, p. 100, t. iii, f. 9 

 (1902). 



" c5" , $ . Head, dorsum of thorax, and tegmina grass-green, the 



rest (including wings) of 

 ,...-„— ^ lighter green, veins 

 deeper; second joint of 

 the antennae, exterior 

 border of the external 

 ^ flap and of the entire 

 x--..^-^ discoidal space of the 



/;.,,/ ^^ , . '^\v' tegmina orange ; third 



:•>- 



joint of the antennae 

 Fig. 228.— J\'<r/jAe.sa coromandelica. and its filament, spines 



on tibiae and the tarsi 

 black." (S2yinola.) 

 " Length 20 ; exp. tegm. 35 milHm." {Melichar.) 

 Hah, Coromandel Coast {fide Spinola). — Java {fide Melichar). 

 This is a rare species in collections and I have not as yet 

 seen a specimen which 1 could absolutely identify with Spinola's 



