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73. Psylliodes viridana, Motschulsky . 



Psylliodes viridana, Molsch., Etud. Ent. vii, 1858, p. 108. 



Elongate-ovate, convex, shining, punctate ; upper side more or 

 less blackish-green ; underside and the seven apical segments of 

 bhe antennae, black ; their base, the front and middle legs and the 

 hind tarsi, testaceous ; hind femora and hind tibiae more or less 

 piceous. 



Head oblong, with front punctate, interantennal space carinate; 

 eyes large but scarcely prominent. Prothorax transverse, 

 subcorneal, very much punctata, with base margined, subim- 

 pressed on each side, somewhat arched in the middle ; sides 

 almost straight, anterior angles somewhat produced, dentiform, 

 posterior angles acuminate. Scutellum triangular. Elytra scarcely 

 broader at the base than the prothorax, elongate-ovate, punctate- 

 striate, the striae being arranged somewhat obliquely, each 

 interstice with finer punctures which are arranged in a row. 

 Body punctate beneath, deeply and arcuately strigose under the 

 femora. 



Lew/th, a little more than 2| mm.; breadth, 1^ mm. 



Very near to our i"European] Ps. atlenuata, 111., wdiich it 

 resembles in size, form and colour, but it has the antennae thicker 

 and the segments verv black towards the extremity, the frontal 

 carina sharper and strigosities in the form of a rasp on each side of 

 the mesothorax, under the posterior femora. This part is simply 

 punctate in our European species ; does the special sculpturation 

 in Ps. viridana constitute a sound-producing apparatus ? 



Ceylon : mountains of Nuwara Eliya (Nletner). 



Location of type unknown to me. The above is translated from 

 Motschulsky's Latin diagnosis and remarks in French. 



74. Psylliodes brettinghami, Baly. 



Psylliodes brettinyhami, Baly, Journ. of Ent. i, 1862, p. 457. 



Body broader, ovate. Colour above shining blue, very often 

 with a mixture of brown, underside obscure rufo-piceous with a 

 purple reflection, legs pale piceous, the apex of the four anterior 

 tibiae, together with the tarsi of the same legs, blackish-fuscous; 

 antennae black with the three basal segments pale fulvous. 



Head broader at base and narrowed in front, vertex almost 

 impnnctate or very minutely and sparsely punctate when seen 

 under a high power, the lower portion of the face rufo-piceous, 

 sparingly clothed with pale fulvous hairs ; frontal tubercles and 

 median carina absent. Antennae with first segment long, club- 

 shaped, second slender, slightly shorter, third shorter than second, 

 from the fourth to the tenth the segments are stouter and almost 

 equal to each other, the last being pointed. Prothorax nearly a 

 third broader at the base than long, narrowed from base to front; 



