502 Mr. W. L. Distant on Heteroptera. 



cinnamon-brown, the femora and tibiae annulated with pale 

 greyish ; intermediate and posterior legs pale stramineous ; 

 hemelytra greyish, thickly speckled and spotted with pale 

 brownish, three prominent dark spots on costal margin, the 

 first at about one-third from base, the second near middle, 

 the third before apex ; claval area thickly spotted ; scutellum 

 spined at base and apex. 



Length 7 mm. 



Hub. Ceylon; Peradeniya {Green). 



Allied to P. oculata. Rent., but with the pronotum nar- 

 rower and more elongate ; intermediate and posterior legs 

 unspotted ; hemelytra much darker and altogether differently 

 spotted and marked. 



Ploiariola polita, sp. n. 



Head greyishly pubescent, finely spotted with black ; 

 antennae mutilated in typical specimen ; pronotum with the 

 anterior area greyish white spotted with black, the posterior 

 area yellowish grey, with a central line, the lateral margins 

 (narrowly), and the basal margin (broadly and sinuately) 

 ochraceous ; rostrum pale stramineous spotted with brown ; 

 prosternum chocolate-brown, the margins ochraceous ; meso- 

 and metasterna black, greyishly tomentose ; abdomen 

 mutilated in typical specimen ; anterior legs greyish, coxae, 

 femora, and tibiai spotted with brownish, intermediate and 

 posterior legs thickly spotted with brownish ; hemelytra 

 pale greyish white, claval and basal areas, the basal divi- 

 sional membianal veins, and the apical and inner margins 

 spotted with brownish, the pale areas indistinctly and sub- 

 obsoletely spotted ; scutellum spined at base and apex. 



Length 7 mm. 



Hab. Ceylon ; Hakgala {Green). 



This is to be differentiated from the previous species 

 and those enumerated and described in the Faun. Brit. 

 Ind. by the more subquadrate pronotum, the thickly 

 spotted intermediate and posterior legs, and the very distinct 

 pattern and markings of the hemelytra. 



Calphurnia, gen. nov. 



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 wuth the first joint 

 as long or longer than the head, pronotum, and scutellum 

 together, second joint a little shorter than third ; rostrum 



