334 



JASSID.i:, 



nearest the apex is an incomplete ring, broken on the basal side : 

 wings light brown, with alternating lighter and darker bands." 

 (Kirhj.) 



Vertex broader at apex than at base, centrally finely carinate ; 



Fig. 'IVl.—Jassus pulchclltts. 



face much longer than broad, a little rounded and narrowed to 

 cl^^peus. 



Length excl. tegm. c? & $ 5 to 6 ; exp. tegm. 12 to 14 

 millim. 



Hah. Ceylon; TJdagama, Maskeliya, Hantane(6rreeji), Haputale 

 {-fide Melichar). 



2587. Jassus roratus, sp. n. 



Vertex pale stramineous, two small black spots narrowly sur- 

 rounded with testaceous at anterior margin and a central 

 raised longitudinal line also testaceous ; eyes greyish-brown ; face 

 and clypeus stramineous, the first with dark striate lines on each 

 side of basal area, the posterior margins and a posterior central 

 longitudinal fascia black ; clypeus with the margins black ; pro- 

 notum ochraceous speckled with black, the black speckles sometimes 

 forming two broad longitudinal fascite ; scutellum sometimes black 

 with an apical and two discal curved ochraceous spots, or 

 ochraceous with three large basal and two curved fuscous apical 

 spots, or ochraceous with two basal and a central linear fuscous 

 spot ; body beneath piceous, spots to sternum, abdominal base and 

 abdominal segmental margins ochraceous ; legs ochraceous, more 

 or less spotted or sufi;used with fuscous ; tegmina ochraceous, the 

 ■clavus, veins, large spots on costal area and a large spot at inner 



