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JASSIDyE. 



rounded at tip, parchment-like, deeply wrinkled and punctured, 

 dark brown, veins brown, set with remote white spots, in middle 

 of clavus a hyaline transverse whitish fascia and a second fascia on 

 anterior third of corium which runs from costal margin to clavfll 



Fig. 200. — Mesargus aspcratus. 



suture, a large white spot behind tip of clavus, the apical margin 

 of membrane dirty-white ; wings fuliginous with dark veins ; 

 pectus and abdomen bro\\'nish-yenow, punctate ; legs brownish- 

 yellow, the flattened strongly ridged tibiae sprinkled with brown, 

 tips of tarsi and claws brown." {Melkhar.) 



" Length $ 5 millim." 



Hah, Ceylon ; Henaratgoda {fide Melichar). 



I have no personal knowledge of this species. 



Division THAGRIAIUA. 



A section to be recognized by the long and narrow face ; vertex 

 produced in front of eyes, usually long and narrow with the 

 margins ridged, thus giving the disk a foveate or excavate 

 appearance. 



Synojjsis of Genera, 



A. Vertex twice as long as broad. 



a. Scutellum large, broad, considerably longer 



than pronotum Thagria, p. 315. 



b. Scutellum small, not longer than pronotum. Mukwana, p. 317. 



B. Vertex only a little longer than broad. 



a. Face concavely narrowed at eyes from which 



it is not separate Pugla, p= 318. 



b. Face with the lateral margins straight or 



almost straight, subparallel, and well sepa- 

 rate from eyes. 

 a. Vertex wider at apex than at base ; face 

 a little more than twice as long as 



broad Sooktana, p. 319. 



Vertex not narrowed at base ; face a little 



Varta, p. 320. 



more than three times longer than broad. 



