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JASSID^. 



angularly rouiuled, and at this point twice as long as the pi'eceding 

 segment, although iu the middle it is hardly as long ; oviduct and 

 genital plates yellow, the latter a little shorter of the two. 

 {Signoret.) 



Length excl. tegm. 8 ; exp. tegm. 20 millim. 



Hah. " North India " {fide Signoret). Mussoorie (Lefroy). 



I have copied Signoret's description and figured a specimen 

 from Mussoorie which agrees with it. 



2553. Drabesciis conspicuus, sp. u. 



Vertex of head testaceous, its anterior margin black ; pronotum 

 ochraceous, its anterior margin white ; scutellum ochraoeous, its 

 apical area whitish ; head beneath with the anterior area black, 

 the posterior area stramineous, extreme anterior margin white, 

 face black, its lateral margins and a spot at inner margin of each 



Fig. 195. — Drabescus cvnspicims. 



eye pale castaneoiis ; body beneath piceous, lateral areas of pro- 

 and mesosterna stramineous, the first with a large black spot ; 

 legs pale brownish-ochraceous ; tegm in a pale brownish-ochraceous, 

 the veins darker marked with small whitish spots, a transverse 

 whitish fascia across middle, the clavus, costal margin and two 

 costal spots behind middle piceous-brown ; vertex slightly longer 

 at apex ; pronotum transversely striate, with paler speckles on 

 posterior disk : apical area of scutellum a little foveate ; face 

 finely longitudinally ridged. 



Vay. Head beneath with the anterior area and the face testa- 

 ceous. 



Length inch tegm. 7 millim. 



Hah. Ceylon ; Peradeniya ( Green). 



2554. Drabescus stramineus, sp. n. 



Allied to the preceding species, D. consjoiciiKS, but with the 

 vertex distinctly longer and apically more augulate ; tegmina 

 brown, reflecting on their lateral areas a large abdominal strami- 



