neiv Oriental Iiomoptera„ G47 



distinctly paler ; face a little less dilated than in maskeliycB 

 and elegantula. 



Long-., excl. tegm., 3 mnio ; exp. tegm. 13 mm. 



Hah. Ceylon ; Maskeliya. 



Tapoosa elegantula, sp. n. 



Head creamy white, central base foveately ochraceons, 

 lateral margins of the face greyish white, with transverse 

 fuscous lines ; pro- and mesonota ochraceons, the former 

 with a sublateral black fascia behind eyes, the latter with 

 ihe margins more or less irregularly black ; abdomen above 

 and body beneath and legs pale ochraceons ; tegmina creamy 

 white, a black spot near middle of costal membrane, the 

 remainder of this area to near apex dull ochraceous, with a 

 minute black spot beyond middle of costal margin, the apex 

 creamy white with minute black spots, and with a short, 

 broad, central, sanguineous, fasciate spot containing two 

 small rounded and two linear black spots ; beneath radial 

 area are two ochraceous spots margined with fuscous, the 

 first basal, the second near middle, and beyond the latter on 

 posterior marginal area a series of waved blackish lines ; 

 wings creamy white ; abdomen strongly constricted before 

 apex. 



Long., excl. tegm., 2^ mm. ; exp. tegm. 10 mm. 



Hab. Ceylon; Peradeniya {Green). 



From fronds of palm-trees {E. E. Green). 



Phka, gen. no v. 



Vertex of head moderately broad and triangular, distinctly 

 projecting in front of eyes, the lateral margins strongly 

 ridged ; face very long and narrow, broadest at base, lateral 

 margins strongly ridged ; clypeus short, broad, obscurely 

 ridged ; antennee inserted beneath eyes, short, robust ; pro- 

 notum short, subtriangularly produced anteriorly, the lateral 

 areas acutely foliaceous ; mesonotum broad and long ; leo-g 

 long and slender ; tegmina widening towards apices, which 

 are subtruncate, costal area broad, with two or three in- 

 distinct transverse veins beyond middle, apical areas nume- 

 rous, short, extending from posterior angle of inner maro-jn 

 to apex of costal margin, only one subapical series of trans- 

 verse veins ; wings about two-thirds of the length of tegmina 

 four discal transverse veins beyond middle. 



Flira in the Indian fauna must be placed near Kamendaka, 

 It is more closely allied to the Australian genus Fenuahala 

 Dist. ' 



