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striped with black; tegmina greyish-brown, thickly minutely 

 spotted with fuscous-brown, more prominently so on veins, a small 

 linear pale spot on costal margin beyond middle ; vertex centrally 

 finely longitudinally carinate, the lateral areas longitudinally 

 wrinkled; pronotum moderately convex, suddenly depressed and 

 transversely impressed before apical area; face narrow and elongate, 

 much longer than broad, lateral margins subparallel. 



Length incl. tegm. 7| millim. 



Hah. Maldive Islands ; Gto'xdw {Gardiner). 



2577. Jassus elegans, ?p. n. 



Vertex pale ochraceous with testaceous shadings, ocelli black ; 

 eyes greyish : pronotum testaceous thickly covered with pale 

 ochraceous granules ; scutellum ochraceous with a few scattered 

 pale granules, on each lateral area a longitudinal black spot 

 outwardly margined and inwardly irrorated with pale granules ; 

 face ochraceous ; the lateral areas with short transverse testaceous 

 striae, a central white longitudinal fascia margined with piceous 

 which is irrorated v;ith small pale spots, apical halves of lateral 

 margins black ; cheeks and clypeus greyish-white, the latter with 

 a central ochraceous line ; body beneath and legs stramineous ; 

 lateral areas of meso- and metasterna, transverse fasciae to abdomen 

 beneath, and apices of posterior tibiae black, the latter also finely 

 spotted and inwardly margined with piceous ; tegmina ochraceous 

 with fine paler mottlings, the veins robust and prominently spotted 

 with pale flavescent ; vertex with a central fine cariuation on eaci) 

 side of which the surface is foveately depressed ; face elongate, 

 much longer than broad, the lateral margins near apex obliquely 

 narrowed to clypeus ; scutelluui strongly transversely impressed 

 before apical area. 



Length incl. tegm. 5 9 millim. 



Hah. Bombay {Dixon). 



2578. Jassus pectitus, sp. u. 



Vertex pale ochraceous with two rounded black spots near 

 anterior margin; eyes greyish-brown; pronotum ocliraceous, 

 coarsely speckled with black, much more sparsely so behind eyes 

 and on lateral margins ; scutellum ochraceous thickly speckled 

 with black, or sometimes vyith a transverse series of four black 

 spots ; head beneath pale ochraceous, the face and two longitudinal 

 spots to clypeus black ; basal and anterior lateral margins to face 

 pale ochraceous ; rostrum, body beneath and legs pale ochraceous ; 

 small coxal spots, inner margins to posterior tibiae, apices of 

 posterior femora, tarsal claws and suffusions to posterior tarsi, 

 black; abdomen above black, the base and segmental margins 

 ochraceous ; tegmina ochraceous, the veins, costal and apical 

 margins black, veins spotted with ochraceous ; vertex with a tine 

 dark central longitudinal line; face elongate much longer than 



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