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  W. 
  L. 
  DISTANT. 
  — 
  NOTES 
  ON 
  SOME 
  INJURIOUS 
  AFRICAN 
  RHYNCHOTA. 
  

  

  I 
  originally 
  described 
  this 
  species 
  from 
  specimens 
  received 
  from 
  various 
  localities 
  

   in 
  India 
  and 
  Ceylon. 
  Dr. 
  W. 
  A. 
  Lamborn 
  has 
  now 
  brought 
  it 
  from 
  Ibadan 
  in 
  Southern 
  

  

  Fig. 
  2. 
  Arocatus 
  continctus, 
  Dist. 
  

  

  Nigeria 
  (see 
  p. 
  213), 
  where 
  he 
  found 
  it 
  feeding 
  OT^Funtumia 
  seeds 
  (Apocynaceae). 
  

   This 
  rubber 
  tree 
  is 
  well 
  known 
  to 
  be 
  a 
  native 
  of 
  Tropical 
  Africa 
  and 
  is 
  cultivated 
  

   in 
  India 
  and 
  Ceylon. 
  

  

  Family 
  Fulgoridae. 
  

  

  Subfamily 
  Delphacinae. 
  

  

  Fig. 
  3. 
  Pundaluoya 
  simplicia, 
  Dist. 
  

  

  Pundaluoya 
  simplicea, 
  Dist. 
  (fig. 
  3). 
  

  

  Pundaluoya 
  simplicia, 
  Distant, 
  Faun. 
  Brit. 
  Ind. 
  Rhynch., 
  iii, 
  p. 
  468, 
  fig. 
  255 
  (1906). 
  

  

  This 
  species 
  was 
  originally 
  described 
  from 
  a 
  series 
  of 
  specimens 
  sent 
  to 
  me 
  by 
  

   Mr. 
  E. 
  E. 
  Green 
  from 
  Peradeniya, 
  Ceylon. 
  It 
  has 
  now 
  been 
  found 
  by 
  Dr. 
  W. 
  A. 
  

   Lamborn 
  breeding 
  on 
  the 
  young 
  shoots 
  of 
  kola 
  and 
  cacao 
  at 
  Ibadan 
  in 
  Southern 
  

   Nigeria. 
  It 
  was 
  also 
  collected 
  by 
  Mr. 
  Hugh 
  Scott 
  from 
  " 
  grass, 
  etc., 
  in 
  cultivated 
  

   places 
  " 
  during 
  the 
  Sladen 
  Trust 
  Expedition 
  to 
  the 
  Seychelles 
  on 
  the 
  islands 
  of 
  

   Mahe 
  and 
  Praslin. 
  

  

  Many 
  of 
  these 
  Delphacids 
  [are 
  widely 
  distributed, 
  largely 
  incidental 
  to 
  the 
  

   dispersion 
  of 
  seeds 
  and 
  plants. 
  Dr. 
  S. 
  Matsumura, 
  who 
  has 
  recently 
  (Ann. 
  Mus. 
  Nat. 
  

   Hung., 
  v, 
  p. 
  56, 
  1907) 
  monographed 
  another 
  genus, 
  Tropidocephala, 
  gives 
  the 
  

   localities 
  for 
  one 
  species, 
  T. 
  brunnipennis, 
  Sign., 
  as 
  Japan, 
  Formosa, 
  New 
  Guinea, 
  

   Queensland, 
  Singapore, 
  Malacca, 
  Madagascar, 
  Caflraria, 
  Cape 
  Colony 
  and 
  Egypt. 
  

  

  