382 



JASSID.i;. 



near each basal angle ; tegmina with the veins and minute scat- 

 tered spots brownish, claviis greyish with about nine large greyish- 

 brown spots more or less margined with piceous, some similar but 

 smaller spots beyond clavus, the dark margins coalescing and 

 forming two or three small piceous spots beyond central disk, 

 apical area greyish, the margins of the cells somewhat broadly 

 piceous, some linear piceous spots on costal margin ; wings hyaline 

 with an iridescent tint ; body beneath and legs pale greyish- 

 brown ; posterior tibise spotted with brown, its extreme apex 

 black, posterior tarsi spotted with black ; lateral and apical margins 

 of face and lateral margins of clypeus very narrowly and linearly 

 black ; vertex about as long as breadth between eyes, transversely 

 linearly impressed in front of eyes, before \\hich there is a slight 

 transverse ridge ; scutellum with a transverse impression near 

 middle. 



Length 4 millim. 



Hah. Bengal ; Pusa {Lefroy). 



Mr. Lefroy sent a single example of this species, 



2645. Deltocephahis distinctus, Motsch. Etvd. Ent. 1859, p. 112; 

 Melich. Horn. Faun. Ceylon, p. 200, t. iv, f. 21, a, b (1903). 



Body above dull ochraceous ; anterior margin of vertex black 

 with five white spots ; eyes piceous; tegmina with most of the 

 veins whitish but in all cases a little paler than the tegminal 

 surface, with two or three blackish macular shadings (as in the 

 specimen here figured), though these are inconstant, interior of the 



Fig. 240. — Beltocephalus distinctus. 



apical cells paler ; anterior margin of head beneath showing the 

 extremities of the black and white markings above : face with 

 curved transverse darker markings medially palely longitudinally 



