. Rhynchota ... ly angulated,arched above ; face some\\ hat long, pale reddish-yellow, unmarked ;pronotum a little longer than vertex, semicircular, pale yellow,slightly reddish at sides ; scutellum yellowish ; tegmina milk-white,delicate, hyaline, with distinct white veins and with the abovementioned red longitudinal stripe which extends from base ofclavus to tip of tegmen and there becomes brown ; wings milk-white with delicate white veins ; body beneath and legs paleyellowish or slightly reddish ; borders of connexivum slightlyreddish. {Melkhar.) Length $ 3 millim. Hah. Ceylon ; Peradeniya


. Rhynchota ... ly angulated,arched above ; face some\\ hat long, pale reddish-yellow, unmarked ;pronotum a little longer than vertex, semicircular, pale yellow,slightly reddish at sides ; scutellum yellowish ; tegmina milk-white,delicate, hyaline, with distinct white veins and with the abovementioned red longitudinal stripe which extends from base ofclavus to tip of tegmen and there becomes brown ; wings milk-white with delicate white veins ; body beneath and legs paleyellowish or slightly reddish ; borders of connexivum slightlyreddish. {Melkhar.) Length $ 3 millim. Hah. Ceylon ; Peradeniya {fide Melkhar). I have not seen this species. 2673. Empoasca melichari, sp. u. Vertex, pronotum and scutellum yellowish-white, both vertex andpronotum with two sublateral orange-yellow longitudinal fasciae, 404 bodylbeneath and legs pale greyish-yellow ; tegmina subhyaline,yellowish-white, with two orange-yellow longitudinal fasciae, thefirst occupying the larger part of claval area, the second on disk. Fig. 249.—Empoasca melichan. above claval area, near apex of clavus a black spot; wings palehyaline ; vertex shorter than breadth between eyes, subangularlyrounded in front; pronotam slightly longer than vertex ; faceunmarked; eyes black, their inner margins pale. Length 3 millim. Hub. Ceylon ; Dikoya (Green). 2674. Empoasca notata, MeJich. Horn. Faun. Cci/lofi, p. 214 (1903).


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