32. The Secretion of Phromnia marginelia, Olivier. 
By Davin Hooper. 
The Ghost Bug, which yields a white sugary secretion in 
India, has been known by various names. It is the Cigale 
phalenoideverte, described and figured in the year 1791 by Stoll 
(Cigal, p. 50, pt. ii, fig. 54). It was quoted in 1791 by Olivier 
to the species is Flata limbata. Other references to the Ghost 
Bug may be found in Journ. Agri. Hort. Soc. India, vol. 
Vi (1879), p. xix; vi (1879), p. xli; Indian Museum Notes, 
11, 39, 92, 95, 166; iv, 42. Watt and Mann, Pests and Blights 
of the Tea Plant, p. 292. 
Phromnia marginella is found generally in North East 
India. In the collection of the Indian Museum there are 
chota, in the Fauna of British India, received them from 
Ceylon, Cachar, Margherita (Assam), Tavoy and Siam. Mr. 
W. P. Thomas, in February 1889, found the insects in the Narsing- 
pur District of the Central Provinces; while Mr. R. H. E. Thomp- 
Species, e.g., P. tricolor, White, P. vividula, Atkins, and 
P. inornata, Wlk., and probably from other genera of the 
Fulgoride, e.g., Pyrops, Fulgora, and Euphria. 
