HEMIPTEKA HOMOPTERA OF CEYLON". 135 



nervures, darker towards the bind margin ; stigma clouded 

 towards the costa, and enclosing four transverse nervures. 



Allied to D. pallida, Walk. Appears to be a common species 

 in Ceylon. 



Putlam, 



*tDlCTTOPHOE,A YIEIDISTiaMA, Sp, n. 



Long. corp. 8 lin. ; exp. tegm. 20 millim. 



Head pointed in front, but only twice as long as the eyes, and 

 with no horn. Head and thorax lined with bright green and 

 red ; vertex with a red central and two lateral stripes running 

 between the eyes, and continued on the face to the base of the 

 rostrum ; sides of head yellowish, antennal tubercles dull green. 

 Prothorax with, a green central cariua, a green band extending 

 behind the eyes to the red tegulae, and the sides green. Meso- 

 notum bright green ; abdomen and under surface dull yellowish, 

 green, with one or two brighter green markings under the wings ; 

 legs rufo-testaceous, with more or less of the femora and tibiae 

 green. Tegraina aud wings clear hyaline, with brown nervures, 

 the former with the costa and inner margin very narrowly 

 bordered with red ; stigma very large, green, crossed by two 

 veins in the middle. 



Not closely allied to any described species. 



Pundaloya. 



*tDiCTTOPHOEA (?) EGBEGiA. sp. n. (Plate V". fig. 4.) 

 Long. Corp. 19 millim. ; cap. cum cornu, 9 millim. ; exp. tegm. 

 28 millim. 



Dull brown, speckled with black ; apex of metanotum green ; 

 abdomen varied with testaceous yellow. Tegmina brownish 

 hyaline, with two brown spots, one on the stigma, aud one at the 

 apex ; wings clear hyaline, with a brown shade at the extremity. 

 Underside paler, a line below the wings and the lateral abdo- 

 minal carinas black ; legs greenish, tarsi reddish, claws and spines 

 on hind tibial black ; femora dotted with black. Head and 

 frontal protuberance of a very remarkable shape ; mesonotum 

 produced behind in a truncated cone, tricarinate, the carinas con- 

 tinued over the pronotum, and the two lateral ones running 

 forward on the head between the eyes. Eyes long, oval ; head 

 continued, with the sides nearly parallel, about one and a half 

 times as far beyond, aud then suddenly constricted. The horn 



