HEMIPTERA HOMOPTfCEA OP CETLOy. 127 



Mr. Green's visit. He obtained 9 species in all, of which 4 

 are new, thus raising the present number to ] 1. 



*tP(ECILOPSALTRIA SUBEUfA. 



Oxypleura subrufa. Walk. List Horn. Ins. B. M. i. p. 25, n. 7 (1850). 

 Pseudopsaltria subrufa, Dist. Mon. Or. Cic. p. 9, pi, i. f. 1 a, b 

 (1889). 



A rather scarce species, recorded from India and Ceylon. 

 No locality noted by Mr. Green. 



*tP(ECILOPSAIiTBIA OCTOGUTTATA. 



Tettigonia 8-guttata, Fabr. Ent. Syst. Suppl. p. 515 (1798). 



Poecilopsaltria octoguttata, Dist. Mon. Or. Cic. p. 10, pi. i. {. 5 a, b 

 (1889). 



Common in all parts of India. The specimen obtained by 

 Mr. Green (without special locality) is the largest on record, 

 measuring no less than 88 millim. in expanse of tegmina. 

 Mr. Distant gives the dimensions as 73 to 80 millim. ; but the 

 range i,s greater, as the smallest example in the Museum mea- 

 sures only 68 millim. 



*tP(ECILOPSALTEIA WeSTWOODI. 



Platypleura Westwoodii, Stal, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. (3) i. p. 571 



(1863). 



Poecilopsaltria Westwoodii, Dist. Mon. Or. Cic. p. 15, pi. i. f. 18 a, b 



(1889). 



A very pretty species, confined to Ceylon. The wings are 

 dark brown with reddish nervures, and the hind margin is orange, 

 as well as a broad band, bending outwards and irregular in its 

 outline, which runs from the costa nearly across the dark part 

 of the wing. The inner marginal fold is dark brown, with a very 

 narrow grey edging. 



Mr. Green's specimens are from Kandy. 



*tC0SM0PSALTEIA LAEUS. 



Dundubia larus. Walk. List Horn. Ins. B. M. Suppl. p. 7 (1858). 



Cosmopsaltria larus, Dist. Mon. Or. Cic. p. 44, pi. v. f. 1 a, b, pi. iv. 

 f. 18 (1889). 



Common in India and Ceylon. Closely allied to the Indian 

 C. vibrans, "Walk., but smaller, and rather more heavily marked. 



Mr. Distant has pointed out that this is the insect figured by 

 Sir Emerson Tennent under the name of the " Knifegrinder " in 

 his ' Natural History o£ Ceylon,' p. 432. 



