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JASSIDiE. 



Genus ALITURUS, nov. . 



Type, A. gardineri, Dist. 



Distribution. Laccadive Archipelago. 



Vertex broad, depressed, angularly rounded in front, foveately 

 impressed on each side between eyes, which are large and obliquely 

 cover the anterior angles of the pronotum ; ocelli indistinct, near 

 anterior margin and near eyes ; face globose, strongly narrowed to 

 clypeus, which is slender and a little more than half' the length of 

 face, cheeks rounded; pronotum transverse, longer than vertex, 

 lateral margins nearly straight, anterior margin convex, posterior 

 margin subtruncate; scutellum broad, subtriangular, lateral margins 

 shorter than breadth of basal margin, transversely impressed near 

 middle ; legs somewhat slender, posterior tibiae lougly spinulose ; 

 tegmina opaque, longer than abdomen, veins imperfectly visible. 



This genus is founded on a single specimen collected by 

 Mr. Gardiner on the Laccadive Archipelago. As this fauna is 

 evidently composed of migrants, principally from British India, 

 we may expect to receive other specimens from the western area 

 of that peninsula. 



2667. Aliturus gardineri, sp. n. 



Above glossy-black ; tegmina with a white spot in each claval 

 area near apex, the apical area with a number of white spots of 

 different shapes and sizes ; body beneath black ; legs pale strami- 

 neous ; clypeus centrally stramineous ; vertex very finely and 



Fig. 247. — Aliturus gardineri. 



indistinctly wrinkled, a distinct foveation on each side between 

 eyes ; pronotum very finely transversely striate ; scutellum indis- 

 tinctly transversely striate before the central incised impression • 

 cheeks deeply foveate on each side behind eyes. 



Length o millim. 



Hah. Laccadive Archipelago ; Islmikoi {Gardiner). 



