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rULGORID.E. 



inner margin, the outer half of the tegmeu is clouded, leaving a 

 seuiilunular vitreous space on the costa, below which the shade is 

 darkest, round the apex of the wings are eight black dots, two of 



Fig. 254. — Pundaluoya ernesfi. 



which stand on the costa, within the clear space, and there is 

 another isolated spot near the inner mai'gin at about half its 

 length ; the veins of the tegmina are set with hairs and in the 

 clouded space are black, spotted with testaceous ; wings hyaline." 

 (Kh-b^j,) 



Length excl. tegui. 2.| ; exp. tegm. 10 millim. 



J/ab. Ceylon; Pundaluoya (Cr'rt'eji). 



I have copied Mr. Kirby's description and tigured his type. 



i!072. Pundaluoya simplex, Kirbi/ (Delphax), J. Linn. Soc, ZooL 



xxiv, p. 141 (IS!:)]). 



" Testaceous ; head, face, and thorax tricarinate ; tegmina 

 yellowish-subhyaline, with a row of spots all round, except on 

 the basal half of the costa, and four or tlve additional spots in the 

 middle of the wing, mostly placed on the longitudinal veins." 

 {Kirb)/.) 



To be separated from P. ernesti by the clear non-fasciate 

 tegmina. 



Length excl. tegm. 3; exp. tegm. 10 to 13 millim. 



.Hab. Ceylon; Pundaluoya, Maskehya ((SVee^). 



Dr. Melichar has not mentioned this species in his ' Homo- 

 pteren-Fauna von Ceylon.' When Mr. Kirby describes the head 

 as tricarinate, he is of course including the lateral carinations. 



2073. Pundaluoya siinplicia, sp. n. 



Body and legs ochraceous, lateral margins of the abdomen 

 alternately spotted with yellow and black ; femora piceous or 

 piceous-brown, their apices and the tibiae and tarsi pale ochra- 

 ceous; face with tlie lateral margins and a central line bifurcating 

 anteriorly pale castaneous ; lateral margins of clypeus pale 

 castaueous ; antennas ochraceous with the apex of the basal joint 

 piceous ; eyes piceous ; veitex with the lateral margins and two 

 central fasciae testaceous ; pronotum with four central testaceous 

 fasciae which terminate before the anterior and posterior margins; 

 mesouotum with four testaceous fasciae ; abdomen above in some 

 specimens, as in the one here figured, considerably shaded with 



