126 ME. W. p. KIRBT ON" THE 



*]N"OTO]SrECTA TEMPLETOlSril, sp. n. 



Long. Corp. 10 millim. 



Much resembles -ZV^. simplex, but smaller and darker. Tes- 

 taceous ; face, legs, and under surface more inclining to reddish ; 

 black postocular spots smaller and rounder than in N. simplex ; 

 pronotum with a reddish or blackish transverse band in front, 

 and traces of a dusky band behind ; scutellum more or less 

 blackish in front ; corium testaceous, with three black bands, the 

 first covering nearly the whole of the basal area, and the second 

 covering the whole of the central area between the two black 

 veins, except at the base ; the space between these bands is also 

 filled up with black at the extremity; the third band is formed 

 by a long black spot towards the outer margin of the extremity 

 of the corium. Wings showing through the membrane black. 



Ceylon. Eeceived from Dr. Templeton. 



*-|"N0T0]SrECTA ABBKEVIATA, Sp. n. 



Long. corp. 8 millim. 



Testaceous ; vertex slightly darker, postocular depression only 

 marked with one or two inconspicuous black dots ; pronotum and 

 scutellum black, the latter widely bordered with testaceous on 

 the sides ; corium with the basal half of the tegmina and the 

 costa (narrowly) testaceous ; the outer half blue-black, this colour 

 extending further towards the base on the median area (where it 

 ends in a concavity on the basal side) than nearer the margins. 

 Wings showing black through the membrane. 



In Dr. Templeton's and Mr. Green's (Nitagala) collections. 

 Probably allied to N. indica, Fabr., from Sumatra. 



COEIXIDiE. 

 CORIXA. ALBIEHOlSrS. 



Corixa albifrons, Motsch. Bull. Mosc. xxxvi. (3) p. 94 (1864). 

 Described from Ceylon (Colombo). 



Hemipteka Homopteka. 



CiCADIDJS 



How much remains to be done in Entomology, even among 

 the larger species of insects, may be seen from the fact that 

 only 7 species of Cicadidse were known from Ceylon before 



