'Species of Fulgorlda?. 419 



Long., excl. tegm , 5 mm. ; exp. tegin. 26 mm. 



Hab. Malabar; Taliparamba (T. B. Fletcher, Brit. Mus.). 



This specimen was found on " Pepper." 



Genus DiOSTROMBUS. 



Dtostrombus, Ubler, Proc. Nat. Mus. U.S. 1896, p. 283; Muir, Bull. 



Exp. Stat. Haw. Plant. Assoc. 1913, p. 80. 

 Drona, Dist. Faun. Brit, Ind., Khynch. iii. p. 305 (1906). 



Type, D. poUdiSj Uliler (from Japan). 



Mr. Muir states tiiat he has seen a cotype o£ D iostromhus 

 from the U.S. Xat. ]\[useuin, and has found it congeneric 

 with my Drona. I accept his decision, and amend the 

 nomenclature accordingly. The species I now know are: — 



D. polittts, Uhler. Japan. 



JJ. car7iosus (Derbe, Phenice ?),Westw., and D.(^Drona) pen- 

 natuSj Dist. Brit. India. 



The Ethiopian species are as follows : — 



D. (^Derhe) lam'us, Stal. CafFraria. 



I). (Drona) grahami, Dist. Ashanti ; Nyasaland, Mt. Mlanje 



{S. A.JS'eave). 

 D. (^Thracia) apicalis, Hag). Congo. 

 D. gowdeyi, Dist. Uganda. 



Diostromhus gowdeyi, sp. n. 



Body shining black; eyes and posterior margin of meso- 

 notum ochraceous ; abdomen above and body beneath more 

 or less cretaceously tomentose ; legs ochraceous, the femora, 

 ajiices of tibia?, and the tarsi piceous ; tcgmina and wings 

 hyaline, slightly tinted with brownish ochraceous, venation 

 black or piceous ; vertex moderately produced in front of eyes, 

 the apex bifurcate ; face narrow, laterally ridged ; clypeus 

 large, tricarinate, the lateral carinas somewhat obscure ; 

 mesonotum large, convex, smooth, glos.sy, non-caiinate ; 

 abdomen in the male furnished apically with a pair of long 

 forceps-like anal appendages; tegmina with the costal mem- 

 brane possessing three oblique transverse veins on ils apical 

 half, upper ulnar area with a transverse vein near middle; 

 second joint of antennae about as long as head. 



Long., excl. tegm., 4-4^ mm. ; exp. tegm. 19-22 mm. 



Hah. Uganda (C C. Gowdey, Brit. Mus.). 



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