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JASSID.E. 



[^tVar. a. Agreeing with Walker's unique type here figured, but 

 with the tegmina more universally spotted and less fasciately 

 suffused with fuscous or pieeoiis. 



Var. h. Paler in hue, pronotum with the ilavesceut granules 

 fused and giving the appearance of an ochraceous surface speckled 

 with black ; scutellum ochraceous with two costal and two basal 

 angular black spots ; tegmina with the typical pale costal spot. 



Fig. 210. — Jassus indicus. 



Var, c. Resembling var. a, but tegmina without the pale costal 

 spot, the ground-colour above is also paler and more ochraceous in 

 hue. 



Length inch tegm. 7 to 8 millim. 



Hah. "North India" {Brit.3Ius.); Mussoorie; Bhim Tal,Kumaon 

 (Annandale, Ind. Mus.). Bombay {Brit. Mus.): Bandr a {Jay aJcar, 

 Brit.Mus.) Burma ; Ruby Mines (Z)o7iert?/). Tenasserim; Myitta 

 {Dolierty). 



I recognize this variable species in all its forms by the distinctive 

 structure and coloration of the face, the margins of which are 

 broadly cinnabar-brown. 



2576. Jassus maldivensis, sp. n. 



Vertex ochraceous, a little darkly speckled, the ocelli minutely 

 blackish ; pronotum and scutellum tliickly granulosely ochraceous, 

 the interstices here and there black, the scutellum transversely 

 impressed before apical area which is uniformly ochraceous ; face 

 and clypeus ochraceous thickly speckled with black, the latter with 

 two prominent pale spots near base, cheeks pale ochraceous ; 

 abdomen above brownish-ochraceous, the segmental margins paler, 

 centrally and laterally macularly black ; abdomen beneath not seen 

 on typical carded specimen ; legs ochraceous more or less linearly 



