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carina itself; face and under surface whitish or pale green ; tarsi 

 ferruginous. Tegmina green, veins green (sometimes yellowish 

 towards the base of the inner margin), the centre of the cells 

 often whitish ; costa gradually arched, apex nearly rectangular ; 

 inner margin obtusely angulated at about five sixths of its length, 

 then gradually curved outwards and downwards to the hinder 

 angle, which is long and very acute ; hind margin nearly straight* 

 A rusty yellow line runs round the wing from the base of the 

 costa to the angle near the base of the inner margin ; on the 

 basal half of the costa it is bordered below with pale yellow, and 

 from thence nearly to the hinder angle it is dotted within with 

 brown. On the inner margin the yellow border is edged outside, 

 from the basal angle to two-thirds of the distance to the hinder 

 angle, with a dark brown line, above which stand white dots ; 

 this is followed by a conspicuous black spot, running up a little 

 into the wing, and beyond by a row of brown dots extending 

 nearly to the hinder angle. Wings satiny white, subhyaline. 

 Tegmina more or less whitish beneath. 



A very common species in Ceylon ; one of Mr. Green's speci- 

 mens had been ticketed with the name " Flata acutipennis " by 

 Mr. Atkinson, which I have adopted. I cannot find that it has 

 been published. 



Allied to P. productus, Spin. 



Pundaloya. 



*t PHTLLTPHAJ!fTA DUBIA, Sp. n. 



Exp. tegm. 25 millim. 



"Very like P. acutipennis. Front of head rather more pointed ; 

 head aud pronotum with a black longitudinal carina, bordered 

 with tawny yellow ; sides of pronotum with some tawny streaks ; 

 tegmina grass-green, with tawny nervures, the cells not centred 

 with white above, beneath paler, but hardly whitish, and the 

 centre of the cells distinctly paler ; tegmina with a pale yellow 

 edge, from the base of the costa to the basal angle on the inner 

 margin ; dotted with black from beyond the middle of the costa 

 to the hinder angle, and round as far as the large blotch on the 

 inner margin ; beyond this and the basal angle is a black line 

 broken at regular intervals. Otherwise as in P. acutipennis. 



Possibly a variety of P. acutipennis. 



Putlam. 



