346 jASSiD.ii. 



except ou margins, a central longitudinal fascia and an arcuate 

 line before anterior margin ; scutellum depressed to apical area 

 before which there is a transverse impression ; face with a narrow 

 longitudinal flattened impression, the lateral areas brownly striate. 



Var. a. Vertex between the transverse line and base pale 

 castaneous-brown. 



Yar. h. Pronotum with two spots behind middle of anterior 

 margin, thus forming a transverse series of six spots. 



Length inch tegm, 4 to 5 millim. 



Hah. Calcutta (Atlinson Coll, Brit. Mus.). Simla Hills ; 

 Mantiana. Bengal ; Pusa (Lcfroy). United Provinces ; Bignur. 



Geniis PHLEPSIUS. 



Phlepsius, Fjeb. J'erh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xvi, p. 503 (1866) ; id. 



Rev. May. Zool. ]875, p. 409; Matsum. Tennesz. FiizeteA; 1902, 



p. 382, 

 Allygus, UMer, Stand. Nat. Mist, ii, p. 245 (1884). 

 Parallygus, Melich. Horn. Fntin. Ceylon, p. 179 (1903). 



Type, P. intrimtus, Herr.-Schaff., a Pahiearctic species. 



Distrihution. Nearctic, Palsearctic and Oriental liegions. 



" Veins in clavus and sectors in corium connected by more or 

 less shortened and partly complete transverse veins, uniformly 

 speckled, only the upper inner fork of the sector connected with 

 the inner simple sector by a transverse vein ; pronotum towards 

 front triai]gular, hind margin gently waved, vertex and front 

 corner of pronotum beneath ahuost obtusely right-angled, sides of 

 shoulders rounded ; front a symmetrical hexagon, above broader, 

 the broad cheeks projecting below in very obtuse angles ; face 

 somewhat long, pentagonal, above broad, short-sided, flatly arched 

 with the vertex forming an obtuse C(3rner under less than a right 

 angle, face straight linearly oblique to autennal cavities ; clypeus 

 somewhat long, trapeziform, widened below ; eyes transversely 

 oval, at inner margins towards antenual cavities waved." 

 (^Fieber.) 



The species here enumerated under Plilepsius have the anterior 

 margin of the pronotum more convex and less triangular than is 

 typical, but 1 cannot And any other character to exclude them 

 from Fieber's genus. 



2602. Phlepsius divaricatus, Melich. (Parallygus) Horn. Faun. Ceylon, 

 p. 179, t. V, f. 7 a,b (1903). 



" Brownish-yellow ; on the margin of vertex four black spots, 

 of \Thich the two inner ones are at the tip, and sometimes con- 

 nected with a very small angulated spot, the lateral spots contiguous 

 to the ocelli ; face yellowish without markings ; pronotum marbled 

 with brown, a black longitudinal streak on the sides ; scutellum 



