356 JA.SSID.'E. 



minute dark spots near anterior margin which is also shgbtly 

 paler ; scutellum flavescent with a black spot near each basal 

 angle ; face flavescent, the lateral margins black, the lateral areas 

 pale castaneous-brown ; lateral margins of clypeus black ; body 

 beneath and legs flavescent, posterior tibiae spotted with piceous ; 

 fcegmina pale, dull, somewhat discoloured ochraceous, a little 

 paler towards apical area, veins fuscous-brown, the claval veins 

 more prominently so. 



Length 5| to G millim. 



Hah. Ceylon ; Pattipola {Mus. Hongrois). 



I have to thank Dr. Horvath for the opportunity of figuring 

 this species. 



2613. Jassus? latruncularius, MoUch. Etud. Ent. 1859, p. Ill; 



Melich. Horn. Faun. Ceylon, p. 186 (1903). 



" Elongately-subovate, shining, palely fuscous-testaceous ; head 

 above with four, tegmina with many subquadrate piceous spots ; 

 pronotum infuscate, palely 12-maculate, subhumeral spots some- 

 what white." 



" Size and shape of the European T. {Jassus) splendidulus, Fabr., 

 but of a clear cofliee-brown, with the spots black, more or less square, 

 placed in checks between the nervures, which frequently assume a 

 brown as well as black tint. On the upper side of the front 

 (vertex) are seen two brown spots posteriorly and two others a 

 little sinuate which surrovmd the ocelli, placed before the eyes 

 and moderately projecting. Legs and underside of the body 

 brownish-testaceous." {Motsclioulsly.) 



"Length 1^ lin. ; lat. | liu." 



Hah. Ceylon ; Newara Elia {fide Motschoidshj). 



I have not seen this species and have located it provisionally in 

 agreement with the view of Melichar. By the markings it seems 

 to approach X. jicu-dalinKs, Dist. {ante, p. 350), and may probably 

 belong to XestocepJmlus, 



2614. Jassus? curtulus, Motsch. Bid!. Soc, Nat. Mosc. xxxvi, 3, 



p. 98 (1863) ; Melich. Horn. Faun. Ceylon, p. 186(1903). 



" Subabbreviated, subdilated, almost parallel, posteriorly angu- 

 larly truncate, somewhat shining, above fuscous-testaceous, varie- 

 gated with white and black ; vertex triangular, with a white 

 central line and two ochraceous spots on each side ; eyes large, 

 oblong, posteriorly convex, cinereous-fuscous, palely margined ; 

 ocelli testaceous ; antennte slightly passing the base of the pro- 

 notum, testaceous; pronotum as wide as head, strongly transverse, 

 laterally narrowed with three white bands, medially less testaceous, 

 laterally piceous-black ; scutellum triangular, black, somewhat 

 whitely margined, sometimes at base whitely bipunctate : tegmina 

 as broad as pronotum, medially sHghtly arcuately dilated; corium 

 with the cells somewhat fuscously testaceous, blackly margined, 

 their inner areas broadly white, an oblique fascia at anterior 



