ALLYGlJS COMMUTATUS. 



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Allygus modestus, Fieh. Plate LIV., figs. 2 to 26. 



AUygus modestus, Fieb. ; Scott ; Edw. pt. ii. p. 61 ; 



Ferrari, fig. 66. 

 Jassus atomarius, Marsh. 



Vertex short, with a fine medial line placed between 

 two other fine lines, inclining outwards from the base. 

 General ground colour of the whole insect pale umber- 

 brown ; the entire surface covered with fine and also 

 coarse dark brown punctuations. Elytra with raised 

 shining nervures. Frons brown, with fine brown stria- 

 tions or bars. Clypeus with a streak, dilated at its 

 end, flanked by two others. Base of abdomen of the 

 male white and shining on the under side. Legs 

 streaked and spotted. 



Not common, but generally distributed. 



Size, 0'27 inch, or 7*00 millimetres. 



Allygus commutatus, Fieb. Plate LIV., figs. 3 to 3 6. 



AUygus commutatus, Scott ; Edw. pt. ii. p. 60. 

 Jassus atomarius, Flor ; Kirschb. ; Thoms. 



,, commutatus, Ferrari. 

 Thamnotettix reticulata, Sahib. 



Male. Vertex short, dark brown at the anterior 

 border, without any obvious intermedial line. Eyes 

 and scutellum ochreous. Pronotum dark brown and 

 mottled. Elytron longer than the abdomen, greyish, 

 but ochreous brown at the apex, and irregularly punc- 

 tured with black. All the legs ochreous, and finely 

 punctured with black. Frons brown and obscurely 

 spotted. Eostrum brown. Best of the face ochreous. 



Female. Larger, and the body less pointed than 

 the male. Colour dirty olive -green. Punctuations 

 indistinct, except on the pronotum, which has a row 



