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APPENDIX. — JASSID.I. 



3480. Durgades nigropictus, Di<t. 

 (li»12). 



A. .U. X. H. (S) X, p. 609 



Vertex of head ochraceous, with two black spots about as iar 

 from each other as from eyes ; proiiotum and scutellum pale 

 fuscous brown, the latter with a central longitudinal blackish spot 

 and a much smaller basal spot on each side; body beneath and 



Fig. 175. — Ditrjades iiiyropictiis. 



legs pale brownish ; tegniina with about interior basal half 

 brownish, remainder dull pale ochraceous, some of the veins 

 longitudinally streaked with black; front of head beneath with 

 two small black marginal spots and with a black line between 

 them ; other characters as in generic diagnosis. 



Length 4| millim. 



Hah. Eastern Himalayas {Brit. Mus.). 



Genus PEDIOPSIS. 



Pediopsis, Barm. Gefi. Lis-. (1838; p. 16; StxL H-m. Afr. iv, p. 128 

 (1866) ; Mclich. Cicndinen Mitt.-Earnp. p. 139 (1896) ; Edic. Hem.- 

 Hom. Brit. Isl. p. 90 (1896). 



1\ype, P. tillice, G-erm., a Palasarctic species. 



Distribution. Probably almost universally distributed. 



A genus to be distinguished from any of the preceding Bytho- 

 scopinae here enumerated by the narrow and angulated vertex of 

 the head, situate beneath the more or less convex pronotum ; face 

 more or less triangular and obliquely truncate before the eyes; 

 ocelli situate between the eyes ; pronotum moderately convex, 

 nearly or quite twice as broad as long, anteriorly angulate ; 

 scutellum much broader than lonfr. 



