130 MR. W. F. KIRBT OK THE 



central black stripe, connected at the base with a band of half 

 tbe length on each side, extendJBg half across tlie pronotum, and 

 angulated out on each side, the intermediate space being buff. 

 Beyond this is another buff space on the front edge, in the 

 middle of which stands a short black streak, followed by a long 

 black band, edged on each side with buff, especially in front, and 

 nearly touching two large spots which stand at the hinder edge 

 of the inesonotum, on each side of the central streak. There is 

 also a short black oblique streak on each side of the mesonotum, 

 at the front margins ; and other black markings along the lateral 

 sutures ; a yellow or buff spot on the summit of the cruciform 

 space. Abdomen reddish brown, sericeous, the lateral margins 

 obscurely spotted with greenish ; the sutures, stigmata, and 

 apical segment blackish. Ventral surface with the front edge of 

 the abdomen and the terminal segment blackish ; legs greenish, 

 femora streaked with black and reddish ; tip of femora and 

 base of tibiae with black rings, front tibiae varied with buff 

 and blackish ; front tarsi black ; tips of other tibiae and tarsi 

 inclining to butf. Tegmiua hyaline, nervures mostly red, those 

 at the base green ; at the extremity of the radial area is a pale 

 space, before and behind which the nervures are black ; the 

 membrane is also edged above by a black vein below a red one, 

 and in one or two other parts of the wing the veins shade into 

 black ; on the first branch of the nervure bounding the radial 

 area below is a singular black pointed widening of the nervure 

 on each side, at about one third of its length from the fork. 

 There is a brown spot at the extremity of the three upper ulnar 

 areas, and six submarginal spots near the extremities of the 

 marginal nervures. 



In one specimen the wings are beautifully iridescent, which is 

 not the case to anything like the same extent in the others. 



Pundaloya and Hematelta. 



Possibly allied to P. Bcinsonneti, Dist., also from Ceylon, 

 but which I only know from the description ; P. Mansonneti, 

 however, seems to be a much larger insect, and less brightly 

 coloured. 



Only met with at a very high elevation {E. E. G.). 



*tPOMPONIA ELEGANS, Sp. n. 



Long. Corp. 31 millim. ; exp. tegm. 68 millim. 



Male. Green, clothed with gilded or silvery-white scale-like 



