376 



JASSID^. 



white spots are on claval suture, disk, aud costal and apical areas, 

 the principal black spot is a discal linear one ; vertex subconically 

 produced, a little longer than breadth between eyes. 



Length 4 to 4| millim. 



Hah. Ceylon; Peradeniya (Green), Hambantula (Fletcher). 

 Mr. Fletcher collected his Jassids at the lights of 

 ' Sea-Lark ' as she lay off the coast. 



the 



2636. Scaphoideus polymitus, sp. n. 



Vertex greyish-white with an irregularly shaped black cruciform 

 fascia extending to base, apex and lateral margins : pronotum 

 very pale luteous, anterior margin and lateral areas black and 

 with a central transverse testaceous fascia ; scutellum creamy- 

 white, testaceous at base, the basal angles broadly black ; body 

 beiieath and legs pale ochraceous, lateral margins of sternum and 



Fig. 237. — Scaphoideus poly7nitu 



abdomen 'spotted with piceous ; posterior tibiae inwardly spotted 

 with black ; tegmina dull ochraceous, two spots at base of inner 

 claval margin, two on apical half of claval suture, a transverse 

 series of three crossing disk of tegmeu, and some irregularly 

 shaped spots on apical and subapical areas greyish-white more or 

 less margined with castaneous-brown, in some instances these 

 castaneous margins are developed into spots ; vertex subconically 

 produced, about as long as breadth between eyes; face with an 

 interrupted black line near basal margin, finely obliquely trans- 

 versely striate, centrally longitudinally palely interrupted. 



Length incl. tegm. 5 millim. 



Hah. Tenasserim ; Myitta (Doherty). 



