304 JASSID^. 



Genus DRABESCUS. 



Drabescus, Stal, Of v. Vet.-Ak. For/t. 1870, p. 738 ; Atkins. 



J. A. S. B. liv, p. 109 (1885). 

 Dabrescus, &V/JJ. Aim. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1880, p. 207; Melich. Horn.- 



Faun. Ceylon, p. 170 (1903). 



Type, D. remotus, Walk., from the Philippines. 



Distribution. India, Malaya. (Probably much more widely 

 distributed.) 



Ocelli remote from the eyes, almost more so than the antennse ; 

 anterior tibiae above broadly subsulcate ; superior margin of the 

 anterior tibiae distinctly dilated (Stdl). Vertex broadly transverse, 

 short, moderately concave, the anterior margin ridged ; head 

 beneath much broader than long, tlie face a little longer than 

 broad, somewhat flat ; pronotum transverse, much broader than 

 long, anterior margin convex ; scutellum large, broad, subtrian- 

 gular ; tegmina \\ ith four large distinct apical cells divided by 

 smooth veins, the remaining venation punctate. 



2551. Drabescus nervosopunctatus, .%«. (Dabrescus) Ann. Soc. 

 Ent. Fr. 1880, p. 200, t. vii, f. 72; Atkins. (Drabescus) 

 J. A. S. B. liv, p. 109 (1885). 



Yellow spotted with brown ; vertex very short, at least four 

 times as broad as long between the eyes, a little longer towards 

 the eyes than in the middle, in front a blackish patch and in the 

 middle a black median line ; ocelli as remote from the eyes as 

 from the median line ; frons black, very finely rugose, almost as 

 long as broad at the base, which is yellowish, but bounded on the 

 margin itself of the head by a blacker line which is continued on 

 the eyes in a lighter shade ; " scrobe " oblique, reaching the vei'tex at 

 the level of the eyes ; clypeus black, carinate, spatuliform, rugose, 

 and with two small excavations at the tip ; gena; yellow with a 

 blackish spot beneath ; the antennae punctured with yellow dots, 

 almost as broad as long, with the border free, straight from the 

 clypeus to the external angle of the eye, with a weak sinuosity 

 above the anterior coxae and a stronger one beneath the eyes ; 

 antennae very short, yellow, the base of the second joint and the 

 third joint black ; pronotum nearly thrice as broad as long, 

 yeilowish-brovvn, with brown spots furnished with light yellowish 

 round dots, finely transversely striated in all its length ; scutellum 

 brown, with irregular, long or round yellowish dots ; tegmina 

 golden yellow-hyaline, in appearance rugose and furnished with 

 brown almost black veins with regularly placed white dots ; a fascia 

 at the basal third and almost the upper half brown, lighter in the 

 middle, but forming deep spots on the side in a line with the 

 transverse discoidal vein on the suture at the level of the tip of 

 the clavus, in a line with the transverse veins of the apical cellules, 

 extremity of the apical cellules and the limbus blackish ; wings 

 hyaline, infuscate at apices; pectus and legs yellowish-brown, 

 bases of the spines of the posterior tibiae and the tips of the claws 



