JASSUS. 



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Allied to the preceding species J. paupercvlm, but with the 

 face more suddenly angulated to clypeus, vertex more inwardly 



Fig. 211. — Jass/is nocturnus. 



narrowed at base, eyes ochraceous, costal margin of tegmina 

 ochraceous from base. 



c. Tegmina more or less palely spotted. 



2586. Jassus pulchellus, Kirby (Tettigonia), j; Lmn.Soc.,Zool.xxiv, 

 p. 170, t. vi, f. 13 (1891); Melich. (Jassus) Horn. Faun. Ceylon^ 

 p. 178 (1903). 



" Vertex (except a red band behind the black ocelli and the red 

 occipital ridge) and pronotum dirty yellow, the latter mottled with 

 brown ; scutellum forming a sharply-defined equilateral triangle ; 

 abdomen bright yellow at the base with black markings and black 

 at the extremity ; anal appendages bordered with red ; under 

 surface and legs yellowish ; extremity of abdomen and a line on 

 the hind tibiae black ; tegmina light yellowish-brown, with pale 

 pink spots and streaks bordered with black, largest and palest on 

 the costa and inner margin ; on the costa there are five blotches, 

 the third, fourth and fifth largest and crossing the costal area, 

 but all separated by small black spaces on the costa, towards the 

 base the spotting is confused, but from the second, fourth and 

 fifth spots rows of about five spots (including those on the costa 

 and inner margin) cross the tegmhia, the middle spot being linear, 

 or at least longer than the others, nearer the hind margin is 

 another row of four spots alternately linear and lunular, and 



