360 



JASSID.E. 



known over three pounds weight of dead ' green flies ' and other 

 insects to be swept up under a couple of electric lamps one 

 morning. The s warms do not consist entirely of this species, but 



Fig. 228. — Nephotettix bipunctatus. 



include a certain number of individuals of N. cqncalis, Motsch,, 

 of small Fulgorids, and other minute insects. Some specimens of 

 N. hipunctahis which I kept in captivity lived for over a fortnight 

 apparently without food." 



2617. Nephotettix apicalis, 3Iotsch. (Pediopsis) Etud. Ent. p. 110 



(1859); Melich. (part.) Horn. Faun. Cexjhn, p. 193 (1903),$ ; id. 



Wien. ent. Zeit. xxiv, p. 303 (1905) ; Mutsum. Trans. Sapporo 



Nat. Hist. Sac. i, p. 20 (1905). 

 Pediopsis nigromaculatus, Motsch. Etud. Ent. p. Ill (1859) ; 



Matsum. Termesz. Fiizetek, xsv, p. 379 (1902) ; Kirhy (Tham- 



notettix), J. Linn. Soc, Zool. xxiv, p. 173 (1891), (5 . 

 Thamnotettix niffropicta, StM, Ofv. Vet.-Ak. Fork. 1870, p. 740 ; 



Atkins. J. A. k B. Ivii, p. 338 (1889). 

 Nephotettix nigropicta, Kirk. Rep. E.rp. Stat. Haw. Plant. Assoc. 



pt. ix, p. 333 (1906). 



Yellowish-virescent, smooth, shining ; face, anterior subim- 

 pressed transverse line on vertex between anterior margins of 

 eyes, anterior margin of pronotum, scutellar and commissural 

 margins of clavus, a spot before the middle extending to the 

 claval suture and there acutely produced hiudward, the apical 

 third of tegmina, sternum, abdomen, greater part of the femora, 

 anterior tibiae and the tarsi black ; the posterior tibiae at the bases 

 of the spinules spotted with black ; ventral incisures flavescent. 



