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JASSID^. 



segmental longitudinal series of black spots ; abdomen above 

 black, its apex ochraceous ; vertex distinctly transversely impressed 

 before apex ; face smooth with transverse darker striae on each 

 side of anterior area ; clypeus with a small central tubercle ; 

 pronotum with a few faint transverse ridges ; scutellum trans- 

 versely and a little arcuately impressed before apical area; anal 

 appendage usually visible beyond the apices of tegmina ; tibiae 

 prominently spinulose. 



Length 4 to 4| millim. 



Hah. Bengal ; Pusa, Laksam, Dacca {Lefroy). 



The tegmina when expanded are more uniformly greenish- 

 ochi'aceous, and not olivaceous as when closed by retlectiug the 

 black abdomen beneath. 



2540. Selenocephalus disparatus, 3/e//27^ Horn. Faun. Cei/lon,-p. 169 

 (1903). 



" Somewhat long, elongated ; vertex twice as broad as long, 

 rounded in front, on its margin a furrow running from one eye to 

 the other, bordered above and below by a black line, the lower line 



Fig. 185 — Selenocephalus dispararun. 



generally stronger than the upper, transversel}' impressed on 

 border of vertex ; face pale yellow, on temples on each side a 

 brown double spot and the antennal cavities brown ; pronotum 

 brownly spotted ; scutellum with indistinct rusty-brown triangles 

 in basal angles ; tegmina yellowish-grey, with delicate dark brown 

 veins and numerous suiall transverse dashes and dots between the 

 veins, on the three outer transverse veins three larger black 

 marginal spots ; wings greyish-brown ; body beneath and legs 

 pale yellowish, very sparingly spotted with brown, posterior tibias 

 with black spots at base of spines and the anterior and intermediate 

 tibiae outwardly with fovu' or five black spots." {Melichar.) 



