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JASSID^. 



Distribution. From the Oriental Eegion to North Australia, 

 probably found in the Ethiopian Eegion. 



Separated from Hemhis, Stfil, by the presence of six discoidal 

 areolas. Body depressed ; head prolonged in front, foliaceous on 

 the anterior margin of the vertex, with a groove throughout its 

 entire length, vertex depressed, also the frons, the latter with the 

 grooves and lateral sutures extending to the anterior border of the 

 head : gense sinuated, rounded in the middle, the lores occupying 

 the entire space between the margin of the gense and the frontal 

 suture ; sides of clypeus almost parallel, rounded at the tip, one 

 and a half times longer than broad ; pronotum transverse, almost 

 broader than the head including the eyes ; tegmina transparent 

 hyaline with a narrow marginal limbus ; other characters as in 

 Hecalus. {Signoret.) 



2520. Thomsoniella porrecta, Walk. (Acocephalus) List Horn. 

 Suppl. p. 262 (1858) ; Melich. (Thomsoniella) part., Horn. Faun. 

 Ceylon, p. 173 (1903). 

 Platymetopius Imeolatiis, Motsch. Etud. .E^/.viii, p. 114 (1859) ; 

 Kirlc. (Thomsouia) Rep. Exp. Stat. Haw. Plant. Assoc, pt. ix, 

 p. 337 (1906). 

 Hecalus kirschbaumii, Stdl, Ofv. Vet.-Ak. Fork. 1870, p. 737 ; 

 Sign. (Thomsoniella) Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1880, p. 62, t. i, f. 44 ; 

 Atkins. J. A. S. B. liv, p. 104 (1885) ; Kirk. (Thomsonia) Rep. 

 E.Tp. Stat. Haw. Riant. Assoc, pt. ix, p. 338 (1906). 



Pale ochraceous or greenish-ochraceous, with a small spot at the 



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Fig. 178. — Thommniellu ■povrecia. 



apex of elavus and anotlier on the middle of the first apical area, 



