PTTELUS. 



91 



brownish, the transverse striations only distinct on the lateral 

 areas, centrally broadly depressed ; posterior tibiae with two long 

 spines ; anal segment of abdomen above spotted with ochraceous. 



Length excl. tegm. 10 millim. ; exp. tegm. 20 inillini. 



Hah. Bombay [DLvon). 



2238. Ptyelus sexvittatus. Wall,: List Horn, iii, p. 715 (1851) ; Afkms. 

 J. A. S. B. liv, p. 115 (1885), 



Head, pronotum, and scutellum pale ochraceous, the head and 

 pronotum with six longitudinal dark castaneous fasciae, the lateral 

 ones on head interrupted by the eyes, and the two central ones on 



pronotum continued on scutellnm ; 

 posterior disk of face, clypeus, 

 disk of prosternura, and abdomen 

 beneath black ; segmental inci- 

 sures, coxae and legs stramineous ; 

 a black spot on each side of face 

 at inner margins of eyes, and the 

 striations to anterior pale area 

 also black ; tegmina black, with 

 three large greyish-white spots, 

 one transverse near middle, the 

 other two beyond it, one on inner 

 and one on costal margin ; in some 

 specimens as the one above figured, 

 there are two longitudinal basal 

 ochraceous spots and the basal costal margin of the same colour. 



The species varies in a tendency to melanism. 



Length 6 to 7 millim. 



Hah. " North India " {Warwlsl:, Brit. Mas.). Bombay {Lelth Jf 

 Dixon, Coll. Dist.). 



Fig. 70. — Ftijelas sexvlttaiuf. 



2239. Ptyelus siibfasciatus, Walk. List JLm. iii, p. 7:>4 (1851) ; 



AtkiNs. J. A. ;S'. L'. liv, p. 116 

 (1885). 



Head ochraceous 

 scure brownish 

 fascise ; pronotum ochraceous, 

 with six longitudinal fasciae and 

 the lateral 



with ob- 

 longitudinal 



margins umber- 

 brown ; scutellum with two 

 longitudinal fasciae ; head and 

 body beneath ochraceous ; pos- 

 terior disk of face, clypeus, 

 and disk of prosternum black 

 or piceous : abdomen above pi- 

 ceous-brown, the segmental 

 margins and apex oehraceoiis ; 

 tegmina pale creamy - white, semi- opaque ; cla\al area, two 



Fig. 1\.— Ptyelus suhjasciatus. 



