lis [Decumbor, 



Species 1. — Doeatura sttlata, Boh. 



Athysanus stylatus, Boh., Handl., p. 31 (1847) ; Kirschb., Athys.-Art., 



14, 18 (1858). 

 Jasstis (Athysanus) stylatus, Flor, Ehyn. Livl., ii, 273, 1 (1861) ; 



Marshall, Ent. Mo. Mag., iii, 10, 15 (18GG) ; Kirschb., Cicad., 



123, 1 (L868). 

 Jassus stylatus, Thomson, Opusc. Ent., i, 58, 27 (1870). 

 Doratura stylata, J. Sahib., Not. Fenn., part 12, 292, 1 (1871). 



Undeveloped form. $ . In life, greenish-grey, changing, after 

 death, to pale fuscous-yellow. Head somewhat deltoid, flattened 

 above, and with a distinct transverse channel in front ; sides arcuate ; 

 apex slightly raised ; posterior margin concave. Elytra very short, 

 only covering about one-third of the abdomen ; postei'ior margin 

 rounded. 



Head — croion with three black spots on the anterior margin, the central one, 

 at the apex, almost square ; inner margin of the transrerse channel on each side 

 of the centre with a dark browia or black, almost comma-shaped patch ; near 

 the posterior margin one or sometimes two small black spots on each side of the 

 centre. Face with two more or less irregtdar, transverse, black streaks, placed, 

 one near the upper margin, the other in a line with the lower margin of the 

 eyes. CJypeus : apex generally blackish. 



Thorax — -pronotum with a deep fovea on each side of the centre, iu a line with which 

 is a more or less distinct transverse blackish line, appearing as though shining 

 through from beneath : posterior half finely wrinkled transversely. Scutellum 

 yellowish or pale fuscous-yellow. Elytra very short, only covering about one- 

 third of the abdomen, very finely rugulose, yellowish (after death) or pale 

 fuscous-yellow ; claval suture frequently with a narrow, brownish line ; within 

 the posterior margin and between the nerves, very narrowly brownish. Leg* 

 yellow. Thighs : fu'st pair at the base broadly black, and with a ring or some- 

 times only a spot, on each side before the apex, of the same colour ; second pair 

 generally with two black rings, one near the base, and the other before the apex 

 third, with a black longitudinal streak down the middle of the inside. TibicB 

 inner margin of the first and second pairs generally \cvy narrowly blackish 

 thii'd, broadly black internally, throughout their whole length ; spines on the 

 anterior margin yellow, some of which are placed iu a small black fovea ; apex 

 narrowly black. Tarsi yellow, apex of the first and second joints of the third 

 pair black. 



Abdomen above fuscous-yellow with a narrow yellowish dorsal line, frequently en- 

 closed by a row of black spots ; sides witli two longitudinal rows of black spots ; 

 beneath black, posterior margins of the segments, except the two last, which are 

 broadly so, very narrowly yellow, sides of the segments with a large, triangular^ 

 yellow spot ; last genital segment above and on the sides with a black spot. 



Length, li line, bai-ely. 



? . Head generally with five black spots on the anterior margin ; extremity of the 

 ovipositor strongly stylate, projecting considerably beyond the last genital 

 •segment. All the other characters nearly a^in the J . Length 2 lines. 



