556 Mr. W. L. Distant on Homoptcra. 



on each side, and inner margins of eyes, black ; pronotum 

 ^vith two central longitudinal fasciae (almost united anteriorly'- 

 and posteriorly and with a small discal curved fascia on each 

 side), incisures, narrow lateral and posterior margins, and two 

 spots on each side of posterior margin, black or piceous ; 

 mesonotum with a central longitudinal somewhat lanceolate 

 fascia, on each side of which is a short somewhat oblique 

 fascia, a longer and broader fascia on each lateral area, and 

 two rounded spots in front of cruciform elevation, black ; 

 a broad outer lateral fascia to tympanal coverings, and anal 

 segment above and beneath, black or piceous, posterior 

 segmental margins a little paler and with some obscure 

 lateral and discal fuscous spots; body beneath and legs a 

 little paler than above ; sternum and opercula somewhat 

 finely greyishly toraentose, sternum with some obscure discal 

 piceous spots; face with the upper transverse strife (not meeting 

 centrally) and discal margins of central sulcation piceous, 

 a black transverse line between face and eyes; abdominal 

 tubercles pale castaneous ; tegmina and wings hyaline, their 

 bases narrowly ochraceous, venation ochraceous near base and 

 afterwards fuscous ; tegmina with the costal membrane and 

 postcostal veins ochraceous, transverse veins at bases of 

 second and third apical areas slightly infuscated ; opercula 

 in male oblique, outwardly moderately convex, somewhat 

 widely separated inwardly, their apices moderately obliquely 

 truncate and about reacliing anterior margin of basal 

 abdominal segment ; rostrum reaching base ot" abdomen, its 

 apex piceous ; anterior femora beneath with two strong spines 

 and a smaller apical one. 



Long., excl. tegm., ^ 17 mm. ; exp. tegm. 47 mm. 



Hah. Siam, Bangkok; Cambodia; Cochin China, Lakhon. 



Allied to P. carmente, Walk., from which it differs by the 

 concolorous, shorter, and differently shaped opercula in the 

 male, and also by the broad outer piceous lateral margins of 

 the tympanal coverings, 



Saivda Pratti, sp. n. 



cJ ? . Brownish olivaceous ; anterior margin of front 

 and lateral areas of vertex brownish castaneous, area of 

 ocelli black ; pronotum with two central fasciae ampliated 

 anteriorly and posteriorly, the incisures, and inner, lateral, 

 and posterior margins, a central longitudinal line crossing the 

 posterior margin, and the whole of the anterior lateral angles, 

 piceous or black ; mesonotum with two central obconical 

 spots, their outer margins continued to anterior angles of 



