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abdomen beneath with the segmental margins dull ochraceous ; 

 tegmina very finely palely speckled, excepting on apical area, 

 where however the veins are more prominently palely maculate ; 

 vertex longer than broad, subconically produced in front of eves, 

 irregularly punctate ; face a little depressed near anterior margin ; 

 pronotum verv finely granulose ; posterior tibiae longly spinulose. 



Length inch tegm, 6k millim. 



Hab. Assam ; Margherita {AtHnson Coll., Brit. Mus.). Burma ; 

 Ruby Mines (Doherty). 



Genus JASSUS. 



Jassiis, Fabr. Si/st. Rhijng. p. 85 (1803); StSI, Hem. Aft: iv, p. 119 

 (1866) ; nl. (part.) Hem. Fabr. ii, p. 78 (1869) ; Spanffb. Of v. VeL- 

 Ak. Fork. 1878, no. 8, p. 3 ; Atkms. J. A. S. B. Uv, p. 110 (1885) ; 

 Van Buz. Tr. Am. Ent. Soc. xix, p. 300 (1892). 



Coelidia, Germ. Mag. Ent. iv, p. 75 (1821); Burm. Gen. Ins. i, 

 gen. 15 (18.38). 



Type, J. nervosus, Fabr., an American species. 



Distribution. Widely and generally distributed. 



" Body oblong, subcylindrical ; head somewhat narrower than 

 pronotum, anterior margin obtuse or very obtuse ; vertex horizontal, 

 a little narrower than the eyes, gradually somewhat forwardly 

 ampliated ; face dilated, more or less reclined ; face occupying 

 the greater part of the intraocular breadth, very slightly convex; 

 clypeus apically produced and ampliated, truncated ; ocelli situate 

 on the apical margin of the head near the eyes ; pronotum 

 transverse, short, shorter than the scutellum ; scutellum shorter 

 than long, subequilateral, large ; tegmina apically margined, valvate 

 behind clavus, apical areas five ; legs moderately long, posterior 

 tibite very spinulose." (Stdh) 



A. Tegmina -with the veins palehj spotted. 



2575. Jassus indicus. Walk. (Coelidia) List Hmi. iii, p. 855 (1851). 

 Tettig-Qiiiajactans, Walk. List Horn., Supp/. p. 357 (1858). 

 Jassus deplauatus, Spangb. Ofv. Vet.-AJc. Fork. 1878, no.8, p. 28; 

 Atkins. J. A. S. B. liV, p. 'ill (1885). 



Sordidly yellowish-w-hite ; vertex, face and legs weakly sub- 

 ferruginous yellow ; lateral margins of face broadly cinnabar-brown ; 

 pronotum and scutellum piceous, the former with dull pale flavescent 

 granules ; sternum and abdomen black, the former more or less 

 spotted with flavescent, the segments of the latter posteriorly 

 narrowly margined with ochraceous ; tegmina dull pale flavescent, 

 densely suifused with piceous or fuscous, the veins, particularly on 

 apical area, spotted with fuscous, beyond the middle a subtriangular 

 costal spot sordidly whitish, followed by a fuscous spot, apex more 

 or less fuscous ; the last segment of the abdomen in the 2 almost 

 twice as long as the penultimate ; vertex with a narrow central 

 carination. 



