126 TERRESTRIAL 1- AMIJ-IES OF IIE.MIPTERA-IIETEROPTERA 



the wide. (lark specimen from the previous locality, but the latter is larger, prnpdrtionately a 

 little narrower, and has more prominent pron :)tal angles. 



E. Ororotse Tso. 13,229. 11 July, 1932, altitude 52^^7 m. These specimens 

 (Plate \'lll, figs. 12, 13) are very broad and have the posterior pmnntal angles much reduced 

 so that the posterior border is but little reflexed and the sides are straight. In color they 

 are less dark than the obsctiratiis form from Renka-le. The present specimens constitute 

 the typical series of alticola subsp. n., primarily characterised by its small size, wide form 

 which is comparable to that of tliyiiii rather than to cricac s. str., and straight lateral pronotal 



Nysitis ericac alticola subsp. n. 



S Robust (Plate VIIT, fig. 12); dorsal surface covered wiih fine short adpressed hairs. 



Color. Head black, mottled with testaceous yellow on the clypeus and juga, and w itli a 

 conspicuous smooth spot on the posterior margin yellow; antennae dark brown, ventral surface 

 of first joint and proximal half of first joint, .save the extreme base, yellowi.sh ; bucculae 

 grey. Pronotum yellowish-grey, with heavily black pnnctnration, save in the posterior angles 

 and a spot on the posterior margin; transverse black line on the anterior part of the pronotal 

 disc complete centrally and turned forward laterally; scutellum black. Dorsal surfaces of all 

 femora Ijlack, save at their a])ices which are testaceous; anterior femora black ventrally save 

 for the testaceous apices, intcriuediatc and posterior femora testaceous ventrally, lieaxily 

 spotted with black, tibiae testaceous with black spots apically, first tarsal joints testace(jus 

 darkening distally to brown, second joints brown, third joints black. Elytra opaque, yellowish- 

 grey, with the inner margin of the clavus obscurely darkened, lateral margins of curium wvy 

 narrowly black, indefinitely mottled with black along the outer corial vein (snb-costa) and 

 less consi)icuously on the disc, membrane hyaline with a large I)lack sj)ot on its corial border 

 fading to brown at the edges and just invading the posterior angle of the corium. Thorax 

 lx;neath black, posterior borders of pleurae and edges of articulations of legs yellowish-grey, 

 outer part of lip of scent-gland yellowish. Ab.lomen black, with yellowish mottling on the 

 edge of the connexivum. 



Head about one-sixth narrower than the pronotum postericjrly; eyes relatively small, 

 vertex moderately flat in profile, bucculae not quite reaching the posterior margin of the ven- 

 tral surface of the head, slightly lowered in their posterior half and more al)ruptly termi- 

 nated opposite the apex of the first rostral joint. Eirst joint of antenna \n\\. little surpassing 

 the apex of the head; second joint twice as long as first and very slightly shorter than the 

 pronotum ; third joint three-fourths the length of the second : and fourth joint slightly longer 

 than the third (0.29, 0.58, 0.44, 0.51 mm.). 



Pronotum trapeziform and moderately transverse, sides straight, posterior angles not 

 prominent, posterior margin but little deflexed, transverse black lines on anterior part of 

 disc incomplete centrally and turned forward laterally. Scutellum sul)-c(|ual in length to 

 pronotum and about as long as its basal breadth. 



Apex of alxlomen not covered by elytra. Wings developed. 



Genitalia as in the typical subspecies (Plate VIII, figs. 18, 19). 



9 Somewhat broader than the male (Plate VIII. fig. 13 l. ^'ellow mottling of the clypeus 



