3563. Jassus excelsus, sp. n. 



Head pale ochraceous, vertex with four black spots two near 

 anterior and two near posterior margins ; face with the lateral 

 margins prominently black, and a black central fasciate spot to 

 clypeus ; pronotum ochraceous, closely and finely speckled with 

 black ; scutelluin ochraceous, speckled with black, a large elongate 

 spot at each basal angle, a central transverse spot on anterior 

 margin, and a curved linear spot before apex, black ; tegmina pale 

 bronzy-brown, the veins darker and minutely spotted with pale 

 ochraceous ; legs ochraceous, apices of tarsi and inner margins of 

 posterior tibiae black ; vertex of head about as long as anteriorly 

 broad, obliquely, moderately narrowed to base, with a central, fine 

 longitudinal carina, the lateral margins more distinctly carinate; 

 face elongate, slightly more than twice as long as broad ; scutelluin 

 about as long as pronotum, its apex acute. 



Length incl. tegm. 10 uiillim. 



Hab. Upper Burma ; Lashio, 3000 feet (Bainbrigge Fletcher}. 



3564. Jassns brevis. 



Tettigom'a brevis, Walk. List Horn, iii, p. 774 (1851). 

 Ccelidia brevis, Stdl, Ofv. Vet.-Ak. Forh. 1862, p. 494. 

 Jassus brevis, Dtst. Sec. Ind. Mus. ii, p. 150 (1908). 



Head black, vertex ochraceous, with two small black spots near 

 anterior margin ; face with the anterior margin and pronotum and 

 scutellum black, the pronotum with minute paler freckles ; body 

 beneath and legs black or blackish, apical halves of the posterior tibi 

 usually paler and more fuscous in hue ; tegmina black, crossed by 

 a broad transverse fascia near apex of scutellum, and another 

 (narrowed inwardly) near base of apical area, stramineous. 



Allied to J. percultus, Dist. (vol. iv, p. 337), but a larger species, 

 the pale fasciae broader and the prouotum black ; vertex of head 

 broader, &c. 



Length incl. tegm. 7-9 millim. 



Hab. Upper Burma ; Lashio (Bainbrigge Fletcher). China ; 

 Hongkong (Brit. Mus.}. 



A species was described by Herr.-Schaeff. (Faun. Germ. 143, 15) 

 as Jasstis brevis. This is a Palaearctic species, and has been 

 correctly placed by Oshanin in the genus Gfoniagnathus. There 

 is therefore no necessity to alter the specific name of the above 

 insect. 



3565. Jassus ostentus, sp. n. 



Head ochraceous; face black, its margins ochraceous; pro- 

 notum and scutellum black ; body beneath (imperfectly seen in 

 mounted type) black or blackish, with ochraceous fasciate markings ; 

 legs ochraceous ; tegmina black, claval area (excluding base and 

 apex), costal area widening posteriorly and connected with apical 

 area, ochraceous ; vertex of head about as broad at anterior 



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