BYTHOSCOPUS. 



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apical cell a little longer than the one next outward, acute at tip ; 

 anterior tibiae with close long bristles, posterior ones with long, 

 stout spines." 



Stmgania was originally treated by Stal as a subgenus of 

 Gupona ; in his ' Hemiptera Mexicaua,' he placed it as a distinct 

 genus after Oiipona, a course in which he was followed by Fowler 

 (1903), who was evidently unaware that Van Duzee (1894) had 

 rightly placed it in the Eythoscopinso, though in the genus 

 Meter 02'>sis. Oagaropsis was originally placed by Fowler in the 

 Membracidse. Paclujopsis was quite recognized by Uhler as allied 

 to Biithoscopus. Kirkaldy states (Rep. Exp. Stat. Haw. Plant. 

 Assoc, pt. ix, p. 345) that in 1900 he was the first to point out 

 that Lewis had fixed the type of B>jt7ioscopus as lanio. This 

 requires correction — (1), 1900 as the date of Kirkaldy's note is an 

 error, it should be 1901 (Entomologist, xxxiv, pp. 339-40); 

 (2), Germar fixed his ow-n type, as can be seen by a reference to 

 the description (too short) of his genus, w'here the first species 

 which he includes is Jassus lanis, Fabr., a inisprint for /. lanio, 

 Linn. 



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240(;. Bythoscopus clllorophana, Melich. (Pacbyopsis) Hom. Faun. 

 Ceiilon, p. 15y (1903). 



Head, pronotum, scutellum, body beneath tind legs stramineous; 



tegmina pale ochraceous, with a 

 minute piceous spot at apex of 

 clavus antl the apical costal area 

 subhyaline ; disk of pronotum 

 distinctly finely transversely 

 striate ; scutellum obscurely sub- 

 foveate near each basal angle, an 

 arcuate, subaugulate, impressed 

 transverse line before apical area ; 

 teginina sparingly, obscurely, 

 somewhat coarsely punctate ; 

 eyes piceous or testaceous ; ocelli 

 red. 



Length incl. tegm. c? 4, $ 

 4|-5 millim. 



Hah. Bengal ; Calcutta ; Pusa 



{Lefroy). Ceylon ; Peradeniya, Negombo, Putalam {Mas. Hon- 



grois). Teuasserim ; Myitta {Doherty). 



A cotype from the Budapest Museum is here figured. 



2407. Bythoscopus piceatus, sp. u. 



$ . Pale ochraceous ; pronotum (excluding anterior and lateral 

 areas) and the whole of the scutellum piceous-biack. 



Allied to B. clilorophana, but in addition to the great colour 

 differences the pronotum is much more strongly transversely 

 striate ; the tegmina are rather more subhyaline at their costal 



Fig. 124. — B[/thoscoptcs chlorophana. 



