24 BEITISH CICADA. 



JASSIN^. 



Genus XXXV.— STICTOCORIS,* Thorns. 



Head with the eyes wider than the pronotnm. 

 Vertex obtuse. Frons longer than wide. Rostrum 

 stout. Elytra as long or longer than the abdomen. 

 Apical cells five. Discoidal cells two. 



Stictocoris Preyssleri, H.-Schff. Plate XLIV., 

 figs. 2 to 25. 



Jassus Preyssleri, H. - Schafi". ; Flor ; Kirschb. ; 



Thorns. 

 Thamnotettix adumhrata, Boh. 



,, Preyssleri, Scott; Fieb., Cic. Ent. 



Stictocoris Preyssleri, Sahib. ; Edw. pt. ii. p. 34. 



Colour more or less cinereous-grey, with yellow 

 stainings. Vertex subangular, ochreous, with three 

 black spots near the apical border, and a square spot 

 near its base. Head with the eyes broader than the 

 pronotum. Eyes spotted. Ocelli not visible. Pro- 

 notum with a broad central brown line, which passes 

 through the scutellum, and with a spot on each side 

 of the same. Elytron longer than the abdomen, the 

 greater part grey and shining, but passing into ochreous 

 at the costa and the apex. Mostly there is visible a 

 broad parallel bar in the centre. Apical cells five, 

 and discoidal cells two. The limbus is almost im- 

 perceptible. Wings with two short transverse veins. 

 Legs yellow ; the hind tibia with a black inner stripe. 

 The first tarsal joint the longest, and fringed at the 

 extremity with cilise. Pulvilli large. Frons yellow, 

 with a central brown stain. Gulae and tempora each 

 with a brown spot contiguous to the frons. Pygofer of 

 the male cleft, with two broad genital valves, which 



■''• From 'Eri/KToi;, punctured. 



