470 



FULGORIDjE. 



with a large black costal spot a little beyoud middle, their apices 

 llnely infuscate. 



Length inch tegm. 2i millim. 



Hah. Ceylou ; Peradeniya (G'r(?gn). 



Genus PUROHITA, uov. 



Type, P. cervina, Dist. 



Distribuiion. Ceylon. 



Head (including eyes) narrower than pronotum ; vertex A^ery 

 narrow, extending a little in front of eyes, laterally strongly 

 ridged and anteriorly prominent, medially very obsoletely cari- 

 nate; face long, narrow, medially and laterally carinate, strongly 

 depressed and impressed between eyes, and thence obliquely 

 widened to clypeus, which is also medially and laterally carinate ; 

 antennsft inserted in a groove on under surface of eyes, first joint 

 very long and broad with a central ridge, on each side of which 

 the surface is obliquely reclined, second joint barely half the length 

 of first, thickened but much narrower and with spinous hairs ; 

 pronotum scarcely longer than vertex, tricarinate ; mesonotum 

 longer than head and pronotum together, tricarinate ; posterior 

 tibiae without spines, but with a long, robust, apical spur; tegmina 

 longly passing the apex of the abdomen, longitudinally veined, a 

 series of transverse veins at about one-third from apical margin, 

 beyond which the longitudinal veins are distinctly thickened and 

 the central one furcate at apex, most of the veins are also finely 

 and somewhat obscurely granulose. 



2075, Purohita cervina, sp. n. 



Body and legs ochraceous ; eyes slaty -grey ; vertex with the 



lateral margins pale 

 castaneous ; face dark 

 ochraceous and medially 

 and laterally narrowly 

 pale castaneous to about 

 middle of eyes, thence 

 stramineous to clypeus 

 and laterally and medially 

 a little darker, and with a 

 transverse sinuate ochra- 

 ceous line before apex ; 

 clypeus ochraceous, later- 

 ally and medially strami- 

 neous ; antennae ochra- 

 ceous, sprinkled with 

 pronotum with two small discal tubercles ; meso- 

 notum with two longitudiual darker fasciae ; tegmina subhyaline, 

 the veins brownish-ochraeeons and mostly finely granulose, on 

 apical third broader and much more distinctly prominent, he 



Fuiohita cervina. 



testaceous 



