160 M. L. Lethierry — Three new Boinoptera. [Apeil, 



The following descriptions refer to the small homopterons found in 

 such abundance on the mango tree in the early part of the year and 

 indeed up to the rains. Some account of them has been given in the 

 Indian Museum ' Notes on Economic Entomology,' No. Ill, and their 

 life-history is now being investigated. 



Idiocbetjs niveospaesus. 



Elavescens, fusco et albo variegatus : vertice subtilissime aciculato- 

 st'rigoso, medio infuscato, vertice utrinque puncto minutissimo nigro: 

 fronte subtilissime aciculato-strigosa, flava ; clypeo flavo, macula ba- 

 sali nigra : pronoto flavo, fusco-irrorato : scutello basi utrinque macula 

 triangulari, medioque vitta angusta usque ad medium continuata, ibique 

 punctis duobus minutis, nigris ; summo apice albo : tegminibus nitidis, 

 griseoflavis, subpelluciclis, venis fuscis, fascia subbasali interrupta alba, 

 maculaque parva irregulari ad apicem corii alba ; lateribus maciilis 

 cluabus, una media, oblonga, altera apicali, nigris, spatio insigni albo- 

 hyalino interruptis : corpore cum pedibus subtus fusco- variegato, ungui- 

 culis nigris. — Long. 4 millim, c? 9 . I notato, Fabr. affinis : maculis 

 lateralibus nigris et spatio laterali hyalino tegminum distinctus. 



Hab. Saharanpur, Calcutta. 



Idioceeus Atkinsoni. 



Elongatus, flavescens : vertice medio infuscato, puncto basali punc- 

 toque laterali medio utrinque distinctissimo, nigris, ornato : fronte flava : 

 clypeo flavo, linea media longitudinali parva nigra, strigisque lateralibus 

 minutissimis fuscis : pronoto flavo, linea longitudinali angusta media 

 f usca, punctisque duobus anticis nigris : scutello basi utrinque macula 

 triangulari nigra, medioque vitta angusta antice et postice dilatata, fusca, 

 punctisque duobus fuscis : tegminibus subpellucidis, venis fuscis, im- 

 maculatis : corpore subtus cum pedibus flavo, unguiculis fuscis. — Long. 

 5 millim. c?, 9 • 



Hab. Calcutta, Baliganj. 



Idioceeus cltpealis. 

 Minor, flavescens : vertice flavo, aut immaculato, aut punctis duobus 

 lateralibus (uno utrinque) nigris ornato : froute flava, aut immaculata, 

 aut punctis duobus mediis nigris ornato : clypeo flavo, in medio semper 

 vitta angusta nigra, ad basim latiori, ornato : pronoto flavo, immaculato : 

 scutello flavo, basi utrinque macula obtuse triangulari nigra ornato : 

 tegminibus flavis, nitidis, venis concoloribus, vena costali dilutius flava, 

 intus in medio nigro angustissime cincta : corpore subtus flavo, macula 



