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Genus PSILOLOMIA. 

 Psilolomia, Bredd. Ann. Soc. Ent. Bely. liii, p. 292 (1909). 



Type, P. brevitabilis, Bredd. 



Distribution. Ceylon. 



Tliis genus is evidently closely allied to the preceding genus, 

 Necihoplolomia, Dist., but I have not seen an example, and am 

 unable at the present time to see the type. Should it prove con- 

 generic, which I cannot make it out to be from the description, 

 Breddin's name would take precedence. 



PSILOLOMIA BREVITABILIS, Bredd. Ann. Soc. Ent. Belq. liii, p. 293 

 (1909). 



Hab. Ceylon ; Trincomalee. 



Genus LEPTOCORISA. (Vol. I, p. 409.) 

 Leptocorixa, Bergr. J. Bomb. JV. H. Soc. xxiv, p. 173 (1915). 



LEPTOCORISA VARICORNIS. (Vol. I, p. 409.) 



Lefroy, " Ind. Ins. Life," p. 684 (1909); Bain.-Fletch., "Some 



'S. Ind. Ins." pp. 82, 146, 479 (1914). 

 Leptocorixa variicornis, Berar. J. Bomb. N. H. Soc. xxiv, p. 173 



This insect is reported from India as living normally 

 among grass and thick vegetation, but multiplying very largely in 

 rice fields, and is one of the few seriously injurious Heteroptera. 



LEPTOCORISA ACUTA. (Vol. I, p. 410.) 

 Stebbing, Clrc. Agricult. Econ. Ent., No. 1. 



" When young this insect is most destructive, sucking out the 

 juices of the stems of the rice plants." " Found all over the East 

 on the rice plant" (Ori/za safiva). 



3735. Leptocorisa lepida, Bredd. Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. liii. p. 293 

 (1909). 



''Allied to L. varicornis, Fabr., but much smaller and more 

 slender, the apex of the head between the conically pointed ends 

 of the jugse with very distinct and almost right-angled margins; 

 the frontal forks sharp and distinct ; antennae pitchy-black, basal 

 joint reddish-yellow or yellowish-brown, above darker, the slightly 

 thickened apex pitchy-black, a broad subbasal ring on the fourth 

 and the base of the third and second antennal joints whitish- 

 yellow, a marginal spot on the anterior collar of the pronotum 

 black ; a small spot on the pronotal basal tubercles blackish, the 

 black- punctured clavus and the inner part of the corium 



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