A NEW FORMOSAN PUROHITA (DELPHACIDyE) 



By Frederick Muir 

 {The Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Experiment Station) 



Purohita maculata sp. nov. 



Male. — Antennae with first segment flattened and longitudi-* 

 nally keeled as in Purohita cervina, but not so wide ; second joint 

 about half the length of first, slightly flattened ; flagellum longer 

 than both joints together. Tegmen broader and its apex more 

 rounded than in type; radial and median cross veins present. 



Light bluish or yellowish green, more or less covered with a 

 white waxy secretion; reddish brown over antennae and basal 

 half of face extending on to pronotum to base of tegmen; 

 light bluish green over apical half of face extending over lateral 

 edges of pronotum and on to pleura ; pronotum darkish between 

 carina; lateral carinae of mesonotum brownish, slightly infus- 

 cate between carinae; first and second tarsi and a line down 

 first and second femora brown. Tegmina hyaline, slightly opaque 

 with waxy secretion, small black spots along veins, largest at 

 apical margin and at cross veins ; wings hyaline, slightly opaque 

 with waxy secretion, veins brown. Pygophor large, upper half 

 cut away to base beside anal segment; a deep, narrow medio- 

 ventral emargination extending to about middle; anal segment 

 large, length twice the width, subparallel-sided, apex broadly 

 rounded, anus in apical third; styles acutely angular, apex 

 pointed, aedeagus complex. 



Length, 3.7 millimeters ; tegmen, 4.8. 



Female. — Similar to the male, but slightly larger, 



Formosa, Kanshirei {H. Sauter and F. Muir, February) . 



Living under the leaf sheaths of the broad-leafed bamboo 

 {Dendro calamus) among a mass of flocculent, waxy secretion. 

 The nymphs are greatly flattened horizontally, antennal joints 

 subequal and cylindrical; face with two median carinae; hind 

 tibial spur as in adult. 



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