150 ME. W. F. KTE.BT ON THE 



*tPHALiENOMOIlPHA EROSIPElSriiriS. 



Phalsenomorpha erosiiiennis, Stal, CEfv. Vet.-Akad. Fork. xv. p. 451 

 (1858). 



There is a whitish insect, varied with green, in Mr. Green's 

 collection from Kandy ; and a greenish insect, with a curved 

 dark line running from the base to the tip, in the Museum 

 collection ; and I refer these, with some doubt, to this species. 

 The latter was ticketed '■^Elidiptera perplexa " by Walker, but 

 does not seem to have been described. Stal's descriptions are 

 often very poor, and quite insufficient to identify his species, 

 which may account, in part, for the virulence of his attacks on 

 Walker, whose work he persistently ignored, instead of for- 

 warding science by endeavouring to elucidate it. 



Phal^nomoepha Nietneei. 



Phalsenomorpha Nietneri, Stal, CEfv. Vet.-Akad. Fork. xv. p. 452 



(1858). 



Described from Ceyiou. 



*tP-H:AL^]S'OMOEPHA EMEESONIAlSrA. 



Elidiptera Emersoniana, Walk. List Horn. Ins. B. M., Supjil. p. 73 

 (1858). 



Poeciloptera Termentina, Tennent, Nat. Hist. Ceylon, p. 433, fig. (1861). 

 Described from Ceylon. Appears to be a variable species. 

 Pound on lichen-covered trunks of trees (U. E. (?.). 

 Pundaloya and Nawalapitya. 



*tPHAL^]SrOMOEPHA INCONSPICUA, Sp. U. 



Long. Corp. 6 millim. ; exp. tegm. 16 millim. 



Greenish, slightly varied with rufous above ; prothorax more 

 distinctly green, abdomen more inclining to yellowish, head 

 beneath and legs rufo-testaceous. Head extending for more than 

 half its length beyond the eyes, angulated on each side and 

 then rounded in front ; face with a central carina ; hind tibiae 

 with two spurs ; tegmiua about four times as long as broad, 

 pale brown, with brown or green nervures, the latter chiefly 

 towards the base or in the interior of the outer half of the 

 tegmina ; costal and apical areas very broad, the cross ner- 

 vures placed close together and but slightly oblique. Wings 

 pearly white, with testaceous nervures, those towards the base 

 and the second from the inner margin green. 



