JASsus. 47 



some small ocliraceous spots on apical area: face and clypfnis 

 ochraceous with iiiinute darker speckles, margins of eacli narrowly 

 more or less black; body beneath blackish ; legs brownish-ochraceous, 

 posterior tibia? margined with black; vertex of head a little longer 

 than broad betxveeu eyes, the hiteral margins distinctly carinate : 

 face angularly but not elougately produced in front of eyes, its 

 anterior margin more prominently black, about twice as long as 

 greatest breadth. 



Length inch tegm. 84 millim. 



Hah. Darjiling. 



Genus JASSUS. (Vol. IV, p. 327.) 



Jassus ixdicus. (Vol. IV, p. 327.) 



Add: Hab. South India; Salem, Kodaikanal and Nandidrug 

 {T. V. Oamphdl). Orissa ; Khanda<;iri (Gravdy). Lower Burma ; 

 Mergui (Dohert;/). Andaman Islands ; Port Blair {Kem^)). 

 Seychelle Islands. 



Jassus padperculus. (Vol. IV, p. 332.) 



Add: Hal). South India; Kodaikanal, and Nilgiri Hills, C'oonoor, 

 Lovedale (2'. V. Camphell). E.Himalayas; Kurseong (A'', ^l/iurtu- 

 dale), Shamadang {Tnd. Mus.). 



I liave previously drawn attention to the varinbility^ of coloration 

 found in this species. A long series of specimens sent home by 

 Dr. Campbell shows ttiat the posterior femora and tibiae are some- 

 times nearly wholly black, and in others the tegiiiina are without 

 the pale costal margin and also have the black ground-colour less 

 intense. 



The specimens I described as J. noctumus (vol. iv, p. 332) may 

 also prove to be another variety of J. pawpercnJus. 



35G0. Jassus fryeri, sp. n. 



Head ochraceous, vertex with the anterior marginal area san- 

 guineous, the basal margin much more narrowly so, face with the 

 anterior margin narrowly sanguineous ; pronotum dull ochraceous 

 speckled with fuscous-brown ; scutelluin dull ochraceous, with two 

 longitudinal fuscous-brown lines ; abdomen beneath more or less 

 piceous; legs brownisli-ochraceons,])osterior tibice and tarsi (exclud- 

 ing bases) black; tegminaduU ochraceous, the veins fuscous brown, 

 the chiA'al and apical areas dark castaneous with somewhat large 

 greyish-white spots, inner claval margin with numerous transverse 

 dark lines, disk with dark longitudinal linear spots; vertex 

 of head a little longer than broad, narrowing posteriorly, anterior 

 margin ridged and a little recur\ed ; face elongate, about twice as 

 long as broad, on anterior area distinctly transversel)^ striate ; 



