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FULGORIDyi:. 



" A^ertex twice as long as broad posteriorly, equally broad and 

 obtusely augulated in front, sides of head produced in acute 

 augles, sprinkled with brown ; face more than twice as long as 

 broad, the margins curved outwards before elypeus, disk finely 

 wrinkled, at tip spotted with black ; pronotum truncate in front, 

 lateral margins obtusely angulate, on each side a broad dark stripe 

 extending to the axillary angles ; mesonotum with indistinct dark 

 spots ; tegmina longer than broad, greenish or dirty-white, with 

 two dark transverse Hues traversing the whole surface, between 

 which the corium is coloured with yellowish-brown forming a 

 broad transverse band, the anterior margin straight, the posterior 





Fig. 241. — Atmcis emcrsoniana. 



margin zigzag, a dark curved streak in clavus connecting outer vein 

 w ith claval suture and a marginal spot on costal margin before the 

 middle zone ; green granules at bases of costal membrane and 

 clavus, indistinct granules in corium ; wings milky-white ; abdomen 

 and legs yellowish-brown." (3Ielichar.) 



" Length 18 millim." 



Bah. Ceylon ; Ivandy (fde MelicJiar). 



Melichar has placed as a synonym of this species the Poeciloptera 

 tennentina. Walk., which, however, he had previously described 

 and figured as a distinct species in the genus Scarpanta (Ann. 

 Hofmus. Wien, xvi. p. 241, 1901): cf. Danavara tennentina {ante, 

 p. 404, f. 208). He has also redescribed and figured A. emcrsoniana 

 under the name of A. latifasciata, and to prevent confusion I have 

 copied his description and given a figure of Walker's type. 



2(»51. Atracis nietneri, Stal (Phalajuomorpha), Of v. Vet.-Ak. Forh. 

 185y, p. 4-r2; Melich. (Atracis) Ann. Hofmus. JVien, xvii, p. 192, 

 t. ix, f. 13 (1902) ; id. Horn. Faun. Ceylon, p. 92 (1903). 



Body and legs ochraceous or brownish-ochraceous ; tegmina 

 varying in hue from pale greyish-green to brownish-ochraceous, 

 witli a distinct narrow fuseoas-brown fascia, commencing at base, 

 I'unniug along about half the length of claval suture, and then 

 obliquely upwardly and angularly extending to apex, where it is 

 broadened, it is also dislocated near middle where it is directed 

 towards posterior margin, the i-adial vein is also more or less suffused 

 with the same colour, a few irregular oblique fuscous-brown spots 



