478 ruLGOBiD-E. 



medially ringed with black, between the warts are short black 

 bristles : vertex, pronotum, and niesonotum rust3'-browu, keels 

 yellowish-white bordered with black ; tegmiua formed as in pre- 

 ceding species, hj'aline, shining, basal half and inner half of apical 

 area rusty-yellow, which colour runs radiatel}^ along the apical 

 veins to costal margin, so that hyaline marginal stripes are formed 

 between, the veins, between the basal colouring and the apical 

 parts there is a hyaline zone, veins delicate, yellowish, alternately 

 thickly punctured and clothed with erect black hairs, near clavus 

 is a black spot which lies on the transverse veins and is a little 

 produced in front on both the longitudinal veins, so that it 

 resembles a fork, no marginal spots on apical margin ; wings 

 hyaline with rusty-yellow veins ; sternum and abdomen rusty- 

 yellow, abdomen more orange-yellow ; legs pale yellow, tarsal 

 claws black." (Melichar.) 



" Length, S , 4 millim." 



Hah. Ceylon ; Peradeuiya (Jide Melicluir). 



Genus SMARA, nov. 



Type, S.festiva, Dist. 



Bistrihution. Ceylon. 



Head long, triangular, projecting longly in front of eyes, 

 narrower than pronotum ; face long, triangular, centrally longitu- 

 dinally carinate, distinctly moderately obliquely gibbous at base ; 

 clypeus centrally ridged and its margins finely carinate ; pronotum 

 well developed, ti'icarinate, its lateral areas depressed, its pos- 

 terior margin someA^hat emarginate ; mesonotum tricarinate ; legs 

 moderately short, posterior tibiie armed with a prominent blunt 

 robust spur at apex, first joint of posterior tarsi elongate ; 

 antenniE prominent, inserted just below the posterior margins of 

 eyes, which are concavely sinuate, the second joint strongly in- 

 crassate ; tegmiua gradually ampliate from base to apex, the veins 

 almost wholly longitudinal, those from base to apical area granu- 

 lose and apically longitudinally globosely elevated, followed by a 

 prominent transverse vein, thence the veins are again longitudinal, 

 very finely granulose, tlie uppermost curved to apical costal 

 margin, the second very strongly bifurcate before apex. 



2083. Sniara festiva, sp. n. 



Head, pronotum, and mesonotum pale yellowish-green ; vertex 

 with two central black lines, and a short lateral longitudinal black 

 line in front of eyes ; face sometimes a little more virescent, «ith 

 a black spot near base and a transverse one before clypeus, which 

 is also black ; pronotum with two central and two lateral lines 

 on each side black ; mesonotum with two central and two (some- 

 times only one) lines on each lateral ai-ea black ; tegmina fuscous- 

 brown, extreme base virescent, costal membrane, a broad streak 



