24G 



JASSID.^. 



Genus NEODAHTUS. 

 Neodartus, Melich. Horn. Faun. Ceylon, p. ICrl (1903). 



Type, A', acoccphaloides, Melich. 



Distribution. Oriental Region. 



Vertex of head long, its length about two-thirds of the breadth 

 between eyes, obtusely broadly angulate anteriorly, its lateral and 

 apical margins slightly reflexed ; ocelli on disk much more remote 

 from each other than from eyes ; pronotum longer tlian vertex, 

 lateral margins obliquely straight, posterior lateral margins strongly 

 transversely oblique, anterior margin moderately convex, posterior 

 margin slightly concave ; scutellum broad, the basal area obliquely 

 depressed ; tegmina short, broad, widened posteriorly, clavus 

 very broad ; postei'ior tibise strongly spinose. 



The typical specimen is carded \^hich prevents a description of 

 the face. 



2489. Neodartus aCOCephaloides, Melich. Horn. Fmm. Ceylon, p. 163 

 (1903). 



Vertex of head, pronotum and scutellum black ; tegmina black, 

 thickly spotted with ochraceous, tlieapex greyish-white where the 



veins are fuscous and preceded by an 

 irregular transverse series of four gi'eyish- 

 white spots, at about middle of tegmen 

 there is a waved transverse series of five 

 greyish-white spots ; body beneath (im- 

 perfectly seen) black; femora black, tibiae 

 much paler and spotted with black ; 

 vertex with the apical margin somewhat 

 prominently reflexed ; pronotum finely 

 transversely wnnkled ; scutellum very 

 finely transversely striate, a transverse 

 impression before apical area ; apical 

 margins of clavus distinctly incrassate ; 

 posterior tibiee strongly spinulose, the 

 spinules more or less ochraceous. 

 Length $ 4 millim. 

 Hah. Punjab; Hafizabad {hid. Mus.). 

 Calcutta {Ind. Mus.). Ceylon; Pera- 

 deniya {fide -i¥eZJc7iar),Puttalam, JSTegombo, 

 Auuradhapura {Mus. Hongrois). 

 I am indebted to Dr. Horvath for allowing me to see and 

 figure a cotype of this species from Ceylon. 



Fig. 1, 



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Neodartus acocejyJialoides 



2490. Neodartus scutellatus, sp. n. 



Head and jn-onotum black; scutellum pale, smooth, shining 

 stramineous, four black spots at basal margin, the two central 



