OCR Text |
Show 1874.] MR. A. G. BUTLER ON N E W SPECIES OF FULGORA. 101 Subgenus. Rostrum much compressed from near base to apex. 21. FULGORA GUTTULATA. Fulgora (Pyrops) guttulata, Westwood, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ix. p. 119 (1842). Fulgora (Hotina) guttulata, Westwood, Orient. Ent. pi. iii. fig. 3 (1848). Pyrops guttulata, Walker, List Homopt. Ins. ii. p. 269. n. 4 (1851). India. B.M. The wings are bright green in fresh specimens, not cream-coloured, as in Westwood's figure. 22. FULGORA GEMMATA. Pyrops gemmatits,Westwood, Cab. Orient. Ent. pi. 3. fig. 2(1848). Hotinus gemmatus, Walker, List Homopt. Ins. ii. p. 267. n. 13 (1851). Darjeeling, N. India, E. India. B.M. Sect. 5. Species with scarlet wings. 23. FULGORA COCCINEA. Hotinus coccineus,Walker, List Homopt. Ins. Suppl. p. 42 (1858). Ceylon (Cuming). B.M. 24. FULGORA DECORATA. Fulgora decorata, Westwood, Trans. Linn. Soc. xviii. p. 141. n. 12, pi. xii. fig. 4 (1841). Prolepta decorata, Walker, List Homopt. Ins. ii. p. 270. n. 2 (1851). "Java" (Westwood). Certainly not a Prolepta, but very close to the Hotinus coccineus of Walker. 25. FULGORA GUTTIFERA. Hotinus guttifer, StSl, ffifvers. Vetensk. Akad. Fbrhandl. xv. p. 448. n. 1 (1859). "Ceylon" (Stat); sp. ead.? Shanghai. B.M. The description of this species is rather vague :-" tegminibus carneis, nigro conspersis, guttis compluribus minoribus anguste nigro-cinctis ornatis." It is difficult to imagine the colour of the smaller spots ; in our insect they are larger than the black spots, orange, and edged with black. 26. FULGORA PYRRHOCHLORA. Hotinus pyrrhochlora, Walker, M S . ? * Sarawak (Wallace). B.M. * Mr. Walker believes that be has described this species; but I have not succeeded in finding the description. |