DELXOCEPHALUS. 389 



about as long as breadth between eyes which are piceous and 

 usually posteriorly brownish, the vertex distinctly depressed 

 behind middle. 



Length 4 millirn. 



Hah. Bengal ; Pusa {Lefroy). Bombay Pres. ; Surat {Lefroy). 



To be recognized by the pale brownish coloration, the auuulated 

 anterior and intermediate legs, the markings of the vertex &c. 



2657. Deltocephalus scriptiis, sp. n. 



Vertex pale ochraceous, a looped brown line on eacli side of 

 anterior margin, two transverse linear piceous spots on disk from 

 which a central piceous line proceeds to base ; pronotum pale 

 ochraceous with darker shadings, two large black spots on ante- 

 rior margin between the eyes, two large oblique spots on each 

 lateral area, at middle of anterior margin a cordate pale space 

 containing t\\-o dark foveate spots ; scutellum pale ochraceous with 

 a large brownish spot near each basal angle, three small dark spots 

 before the central transverse impression, two behind it, and one 

 on each of its extremities; tegmina brownish-testaceous much 

 mottled with greyish-white, particularly on claval suture, and 

 transversely near base and before apical area, a large elout^ate 

 subhyaline spot near middle of costal area, apical area with alUhe 

 cellular veins greyish-white and a whitish spot in each of the 

 three inner apical cells ; face with the anterior half pale ochra- 

 ceous, the posterior area black, the first with the anterior maro-in 

 and two small central spots castaueous more or less interrupted 

 with ochraceous ; body beneath and legs pale ochraceous, a laro-e 

 spot on each cheek, large spots to anterior and intermediate 

 femora, small spots and apex to posterior tibiae and spots to 

 posterior tarsi black ; abdomen beneath imperfectly seen in typical 

 specimen, but apparently more or less piceous on lateral maro-ins ; 

 vertex about as long as broad between eyes, centrally broadly 

 transversely impressed between anterior 'margins of eyes, the 

 impression not reaching the lateral margins ; scutellum finely 

 transversely impressed near middle. 



Length 4 millim. 



Hah. Ceylon ; Weligama (Fletcher). 



2658. Deltocephalus (! transparipennis, Motsch. Hull. Soc. Nat. 

 Mosc. xxxvi, 3, p. 100 (1868); Melich. Horn. Faun. Cei/lon, 

 p. 20.-3 (1903). 



"Elongate, posteriorly slightly arcuately attenuated, shining, 

 palely rufous-testaceous ; body underneath and legs paler ; eyes 

 oblong, granulose, anteriorly white, posteriorly black; head and 

 pronotum subfuscous, longitudinally varied ; tegmina, dirty-white 

 somewhat transparent, anteriorly and laterally subrugulose, veins 

 interiorly piceous, exteriorly somewhat white ; head transversely 



