Indian Mitseum Notes. 



lYol. III. 



NOTES ON A NEW PSYLLID.(') 



BY G. B. BUCKTON, F.U.S. 



Dr. Fraz Low in his Katalog- der Psylloden, Wien., 1882, describes 

 the European forms under four sub-families [viz,), LiviinsD, Aphalarinse, 

 Psylliuse and Triozinse. The Psjllinse are characterized by a distinct 

 stig-ma on the costa of the hemelytron, with a straight cubitus and 

 furcatecl sub-cubital and sub-marginal veins. 



The Triozinse want the stigma and as a rule show the sub-cubital 

 vein coterminous with the basal cubitus. 



The Psyllidse of Asia have as yet had but little attention bestowed 

 upon them ; and I am not aware of the existence of any descriptive 

 catalogue which can give much help as to identification of Eastern forms. 



Some twenty or more specimens taken at Poona in the Bombay Pre- 

 sidency, India, have been submitted to me, on which I offer the following 

 notes. 



The winged form only has come under my notice, but nevertheless 

 sufficient variations from any of genera erected by Dr. Low seem to 

 justify a new genus at least, and if future observation should bring to 

 light other similar species, possibly it might be well to increase the nuna- 

 ber of the sub-families. 



From the somewhat trivial ehai'acters of blotchings on the wing- 

 membranes, and the stippled or spotted condition of the nervures, I pro- 

 pose the names for this insect which provisionally may be accepted as 

 typical, 



P/meojQleron{^). lentiginosum^ n. sp. 



(1) The specimens upon which this paper is founded were forwarded to the 

 Museum in July 18S3 from Poona, where they were found in galls on 

 Garuga pinnata, Boxb. — Md, 



(^) From ^aK09 = spotted. 



