OALPHUENIA. 



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greyish white spotted with black, the posterior area yellowish 

 grey, with a central line, the lateral margins (narrowly), and ihe 

 basal margin (broadly and sinuately) ochraceous ; rostrum pale 

 stramineous spotted with brown ; prosternum chocolate-brown, 



Fig. 94. Ploiariola polita. 



the margins ochraceous ; meso- and metasterna black, greyishly 

 tomentose ; abdomen mutilated in typical specimen ; anterior legs 

 greyish, coxae, femora and .tibiae spotted with brownish, inter- 

 mediate and posterior legs thickly spotted with brownish ; hem- 

 elytra pale greyish white, claval and basal areas, the basal divisional 

 membranal veins, and the apical and inner margins spotted with 

 brownish, the pale areas indistinctly and subobsoletely spotted ; 

 scutellum spined at base and apex. 



Length 7 millkn. 



Hob. Ceylon ; Hakgala ( Green). 



This is to be differentiated from the previous species and that 

 enumerated and described in the second volume of this publication 

 by the more subquadrate pronotum, the thickly spotted intermediate 

 and posterior legs, and the very distinct pattern and markings of 

 the hemelytra. 



Genus CALPHURNIA. 

 (To follow Ploiariola,^ bl. II, p. 201.) 

 Calphurnia, Dist. A. M. N. H. (8) iii, p. 602 (1909). 



Type, C. reticulata, Dist. 



Distribution. Calcutta; Ceylon. 



Head with the postocular area considerably longer than the 

 anteocular area, rounded, convexly narrowed at base, transversely 

 constricted between the eyes, and with a more or less distinct 

 basal collar ; antennae with the first joint as long or longer than 

 the head, pronotum, and scutellum together, second joint a little 



