HEMIPTEEA HOMOPTERA OP CEYLOK. 161 



Apheophoea LINEATOCOLLIS. 



Aphrophora lineatocoUis, Motsch. Etudes Ent. viii. p. 110 (1859). 



Described from the mountains of Ceylon. 



*t Apheophoea tacialis, sp. n. 



Long. Corp. cum tegm. 7-8 millim. 



Testaceous, but covered with large, deep, round, brown pits, 

 which give the whole insect a brown appearance; head brown, 

 with the central carina and a spot on each side behind pale, and 

 some pale smooth spaces surrounded with brown in front of the 

 prothorax, borders of scutellum also pale ; an indistinct pale spot, 

 bordered with darker, sometimes visible in the middle of the 

 costa of the tegmina ; front with deep brown punctures in trans- 

 verse rows, giving it the appearance of being transversely 

 striated ; it is more or less varied with black, sometimes entirely 

 blackish, except at the lower extremity, but more often with two 

 large blackish lateral spots (sometimes united) about the middle, 

 and smaller ones below. Legs brown, indistinctly handed with 

 paler. 



Not unlike our common Philcenus spuviarius, L. ■ 



Pundaloya. 



*Ptyelus costalis. 



Ptyelus costalis, Walk. List Horn. Ins. B. M. iii. p. 707, n, 13 (1851). 



Ptyelus concolor, n^alk. I. c. p. 715, n. 26 (1851). 



Eecorded from India and Ceylon. 



*tCLOViA PEEDucTALis, sp. u. (Plate V. fig. 2.) 



Long. corp. cum tegra. 9-11 milliin. 



"Warm reddish brown above, thickly punctured ; head broad, 

 obtusely pointed, the rim of the head and the base of the inner 

 margin and tip of the tegmina sometimes blackish ; tegmina in 

 the middle sometimes varied with yellowish ; head carinated 

 above : a conspicuous yellowish stripe, pointed at both ends, but 

 with nearly parallel sides for much of its length, commences a 

 little behind the front of the head and ceases at the tip of the 

 scutellum ; it entirely covers the scutellum, except a triangular 

 space on each side at the base. Under surface more or less 

 yellowish. 



Pundaloya. 



