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JASSIDiE, 



sinuated ; front longer than wide, deltoid, with the sides near the 

 tip moderately curved, tylus liguliform ; cheeks broad, curved, 

 expanded to behind the middle of the eye, acutely tapering at tip 

 and hardly enclosing the entire lora, the lora diagonal, acute at 

 each end ; antennae long and slender ; pronotum sublunate, more 

 curved anteriorly than sinuated posteriorly ; wing-covers mode- 

 rately narrow, longer than the abdomen, curved, valvate, the costal 

 areole long, narrow, destitute of cross-veins, followed by a 

 gradually widening cell, beyond this are four apical cells of large 

 size and mostly broad triangular figure; wings with the two 

 apical middle areoles long and narrow, narrowing at base towards 

 the cross-vein; abdomen moderately long and narrow." (UJiler.) 



2630, Scaphoideus festivus, Matsum. Termesz. Fiizetek, xxv, p. 384, 

 t. 1, f. 14 (1902); MeUch. Horn. Fmm. Ceylon, p. 195, t. v, 

 f. 8, a, b (1903). 

 Ztirvgi-yoJiobai, C)nuki, Jap(i)t Cic. Tokio, p. 30, t. iv, f. 2 (1901). 



Vertex creamy-white, with the lateral margins piceous, and a 

 transverse castaneous fascia between the anterior margins of eyes; 

 pronotum dull obscure greyish, with an anterior marginal and a 

 transverse discal fascia reddish-brown; scutellum reddish-brown, 

 with a transverse white fascia before apex, and some obscure 



Fig. 285. — Scaphoideus festivus. 



longitudinal piceous lines on basal area ; tegmina reddish-brown, 

 paler on costal area where there are some oblique linear piceous 

 spots, a series of greyish spots of M^hich the most prominent are 

 three arranged in pairs on each side of claval suture, the others 

 more obscure in basal area of clavus, a piceous spot in apical area; 



