JAssus. 331 



B. Tegmina with the veins ^uispotted, or lyractically unspotted*. 

 a. Tegmina unicolorous, unspotted. 



2581. Jassus atkinsoni, sp. u. 



Vertex and eyes yellowish; head beneath yellowish, the face 

 testaceous -red laterally margined very narrowly with black ; 

 pronotum black, somewhat thickly covered with small flavescent 

 granules, its anterior margin black ; scutellum fuscous-brown, with 

 a large black spot at each basal angle and some small scattered 

 black spots on disk ; sternum and abdomen black, the segmental 

 margins to both sternum and abdomen, some sternal spots and 

 tiie legs ochraceous ; tegmina very pale brownish-ochraceous, the 

 veins darker and covered with small pale spots ; wings pale fuscous- 

 brown ; vertex with a central longitudinal carination ; posterior 

 tibice inwardly margined with piceous, the spinules brownish ; face 

 elongate, much longer than broad, the lateral margins subparallel. 



Var. Face uniformly testaceous-red, not margined with black ; 

 abdominal segmental margins dull greyish. 



Length inch tegm. 5 10 millim. 



Hah. Assam; Margherita {Athins. Coll., Brit. Mus.). Ceylon; 

 Maskeliya {Green). 



The type is from Assam, the variety from Ceylon. 



2582. Jassus silvestris, sp. n. 



Vertex ochraceous, eyes and ocelli black; pronotum and scutellum 

 dark bluish-green, narrow posterior margin of the first and the 

 apical area of the latter ochraceous ; abdomen above dull ochraceous- 

 green, the anal segment piceous ; body beneath and legs ochraceous; 

 face (excluding basal and apical margins), large sternal spots and 

 apex of anal segment, bluish-green; tegmina lurid bronzy-ochrace- 

 ous, transverse veins at bases of apical areas and the apical margins 

 pale fuliginous ; wings a little inf uscate ; posterior femora and 

 tibiae longitudinally streaked with bluish-green ; pronotum finely 

 transversely wrinkled ; vertex finely centrally longitudinally ridged; 

 face elongate, longer than broad, its anterior lateral margins strongly 

 transversely ridged. 



Length excl. tegm. 5 G; exp. tegm. 16 millim. 



Hah. Ceylon; Peradeniya (©rem). 



2583. Jassus luridus, Mdich. Horn. Faun. Ceylon, p. 179 (1903). 



" Small, wholly pale or light rusty -yellow ; pronotum leather-hke, 

 wrinkled ; two red spots on the vertex ; ocelli blackish ; tegmiua 

 unicolorous, apical margin bordered «'ith brownish and with a 

 browner marginal spot on the outer side ; body beneath and legs 

 unicolorous ; back piceous. " (MelicJiar.) 



" Length $ 6 millim. " 



Hab. Ceylon (Jide Melichar). 



* In J. opidentns (2590) the veius are spotted, but tbtn the tegmina are 

 transversely maculate or fasciate. 



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