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APPENDIX. 



Genus VULTURNUS. 



Vulturnus, Kirk. Rep. Evp. Stat. Haw. Plant. Assoc., Bull, i, p. 463 

 (1906) ; id. torn, cit, Bull, iii, p. 81 (1907). 



Type, F". vultiirnus, Kirk., from Queensland. 



Distribution. Oriental and Australasian Kegions. 



Kirkaldy only comparatively separated this genus from his other 

 Australian genus Thaumatoscopus. He wrote " Neodartus I do 

 not know," but it is Melichar's genus to which it is more closely 

 allied and from which it may be distinguished by the smaller 

 scutellum and by the flatter and more foliaceous head beneath. 



i>527. Vulturnus ornatus, List. A. M. N. II. (8) x, p. 445 (1912). 



Vertex pale ochraceous finely speckled with brownish ; pro- 

 notura very pale castarieous, thickly blackly reticulate, the posterior 

 margin and a central transverse fascia greyish white; scutellum 

 ochraceous, with black reticulations, which are more dense near 

 basal margin and Jess so on lateral areas ; body beneath (including 

 face) and legs black ; basal margin of head beneath between eyes, 

 anterior and intermediate tibiae and tarsi, minute spots to posterior 



Fig. 11. Vulturnus ornatus. 



tibiae, bases and apices of posterior tarsi, and a lateral marginal spot 

 to metasternum, ochraceous ; tegmina ochraceous, finely blackly 

 reticulate, clavus with a discal black patch enclosing about four 

 small white spots, its apex also whitish ; a large central, longitudinal, 

 costal white spot, which contains two small black spots and is 

 followed by a larger black spot, and a cluster of subapical white 

 spots ; vertex a little broader than long, with an indistinct central 

 longitudinal carination. 



Length incl. tegm. 4 millim. 



Hob. Ceylon ; Peradeniya (Green*). 



