350 , Records of the Indian Museum. [Vol. XXIV, 



Australoma brunnia, sp. nov. 



Female. L,ength 3 - 6 mm.; tegmen 5 mm. 



Width of vertex 2*7 times the length. Pygofer much longer 

 than wide, depressed down the middle for the reception of ovipositor 

 which is complete, curved and reaches a little beyond the apex of 

 pygofer; lateral plates short, broad at base, inner margin slightly 

 concave apically convex basally ; posterior margin of seventh 

 sternite straight. Anal segment short, convex dorsally flat or 

 slightly concave ventrally ; anus at apex. 



Head light brown, darker over apical half of lateral carinae of 

 frons and in the basal half of middle of frons ; pronotum light 

 brown, darker on hind margin; mesonotum dark brown; legs and 

 abdomen light brown. Tegmina light brown darker over posterior 

 half including clavus, veins same colour as membrane with a 

 double or treble series of minute dark tubercles bearing black 

 macrotrichia. 



Described from one female from above Tura, Garo Hills, 

 Assam, 3500 to 3900 feet elevation (S. Kemp, August, 1917). 



Kermesia parva, sp. nov. 



Female. I,ength 2 mm. ; tegmina 3*6 mm. 



Stramineous ; tegmina and wings hyaline, milky white with 

 waxy secretion, veins light yellow. Tubercles along first claval 

 vein and 5c -f- R. The M3 + 4 and Cu 1 are in contact for a 

 short distance. 



Described from one female from Pashok, Darjiling District, 

 1000 feet elevation (F. H. Gravely, June, 1916). The small size of 

 this species distinguishes it from K. albida Mel. 



Family DFJvPHACIDAE. 

 Nilaparvata sordescens (Motsch.). 



Delphux sordescens, Motscli. Bull. Sue. Nat. Mosc. XXX V I, p. 104 



(1863). 

 Liburuia sordescens (Molsch.), in Melichar's Horn. Faun. Ceylon, p. 102 



1 1903) ; Distant, Faun. Brit. Ind. Rhyn. Ill, p. 486 (1906). 

 Nilaparvata greeni, Distant, Faun. Brit. Ind. Rhyn. Ill, p. 473 (1906) ; 



Muir, Can. Ent. Jan. p. 7 (1919). 

 Kalpa aculeata, Distant, Faun. Brit. Ind. Rhyn. Ill, p. 474 (1906) ; 



Muir, Can. Ent. Jan., p. S (1919). 

 Dicranotropis ande/ida, Kirkaldy, //. S. P. A. Ent. Bull. Ill, p. 133 



(1907). 

 Delphacodes anderida (Kirk.), Muir, Proc. Haw. Ent. Soc. Ill, 4, p. 335 



(1917). 



One male specimen from Castle Rock, North Kanara District 

 (S. Kemp, October, 1916). 



I have accepted Melichar's identification of Motschoulsky's 

 species to be correct. If it be not correct then N. greeni will be 

 the name of the insect. It is only separated from Delphacodes by 

 the presence of two or three small spines on the hind basitarsus. 



