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ly across the base of the disk, above the coxal cleft and extend- 

 ing in a ray behind, fuscous to blackish. Scutellum, bright yel- 

 low or more rarely bright green, in some cases blackish in the 

 middle at the base thus making the yellow color heartshaped; 

 fine pale pubescence, transversely rugulose; mesoscutum always 

 dark brownish to blackish. Sternum fuscous, opaque, usually 

 with a brownish patch at the sides; pleura fuscous; margins 

 of the sclerites usually brownish; orifice pale. 



Hemelytra: greatest width 1.77 mm.; dark yellowish to 

 fuscous brown; clavus and apex of corium more fuscous; em- 

 bolium frequently with green, extreme outer edge fuscous; 

 cuneus dull yellowish or greenish, the apex and extending back 

 along the inner margin fuscous. Membrane pale, more or less 

 tinged with pale fuscous or fuliginous. 



Legs: Yellowish or greenish yellow; posterior femora 

 usually twice annulated near apices with fuscous, frequently 

 indistinct on the upper side; tibial spines dark brownish to 

 black; apices of tarsi blackish. 



Venter: yellowish or greenish yellow; genital segment and 

 a broad band along the dorso-lateral margin fuscous to blackish; 

 genital claspers distinctive of the species. 



Female : Slightly more robust than the male,second antenn- 

 al segment more slender than in the ?nale; very similar to the 

 male in coloration. 



NYMPHAL STAGES OF LYGUS CAMPES 

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