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simple. Pro-notal vesicle spherical, anteriorly obtuse, not (or very 

 slightly) extending beyond apical margin of head or beyond the obtuse 

 anterolateral angles of pronotum. 



Long. 3^ — 3^ mill. 



Ceylon : Peradeniya (April 1900, E. E. Green), destructive to 

 foliage of Barleria cristata, an ornamental shrub. [Reg. No. 197.] 

 Type placed in British Museum. 



Brownish-black ; vesicles, elytra, &g. (except nervures), transparent, 

 colourless or slightly tinged with brownish ; antennse (except apical 

 segment) and legs (except tarsi) pale testaceous. 



This is, I believe, the first species of Galeatus recorded from the 

 Oriental Region, none of Walker's species of Tingis or Monanthia 

 belonging to this genus. 



Sakuntala, gen. nov. 



o 



Subfamili^ Tinginarum [— Tingitariorum Stal] genus, Seephanitidi 

 Fieb. [ =• Tingitidi, Leth., et iSev., nee Fabr.] subafl&nis. Sulco 

 rostrali anteriorim occluso. Pro-noto tricarinato ; lateribus laminato- 

 productis ; vesicula subglobosa ; processu postico posteriorim acuto ; 

 suloo sternali longitudinali carina transversa hand interrupta. Orificiis 

 repugna torialibus distinguendis. Elytrorum areis discoidali ac costali 

 baud Gonjunctim elevatis, areolis permultis subirregnlariter instructis. 

 Typo S. ravana, Kirkaldyi. 



Rostral channel anteriorly closed. Capital spines not extending be- 

 yond apex of head ; basal segments of antennse almost contiguous. 

 Pro-notum tricarinate, central carina anteriorly entire, longitudinally 

 traversing vesicle, posteriorly evanescent ; sublateral carinse anteriorly 

 evanescent. Vesicle subglobose, about one-fifth of total length of 

 pro-uotum. Pro-notum laminately expanded as far laterally as lateral 

 margins of abdomen, the anterolateral angles being on a line with the 

 base of the head : the margins of this lamination are reflexed and sinuate, 

 irregularly quadrilateral. Pro-notal posterior process acute-angled. 

 Stink orifices distinguishable, but not strongly marginate. Sternal 

 sulcus not transversely interrupted. Discoidal and costal areas of elytra 

 not conjointly elevated, costa dilated, irregularly reticulate, base of 

 membrane contiguous with the posterior angle of pro-notal process. 

 In our present ignorance of Oriental Tingidae (probably less than a 

 twentieth of the Tingid Fauna of that. Region being known) it .is 



