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the apical one elongate ; all the segments with a few short hairs and imbricated. 

 Pronotum of the same colour as the head, farinose at side ; thoracic lobes dusky 

 and mealy. Proboscis reaching to third coxae, blunt, the last two segments rather 

 small and equal ; pale, tip black. Abdomen pale grass-green, speckled with black 

 spots and with faint transverse bands ; narrow, with rows of hairs coming from the 

 darkened tubercles ; cauda and anal plate pale, with rather long hairs. Legs pale ; 

 greenish femora, with dusky yellow tibiae, apices darkened ; fore and mid pairs 

 moderately long ; coxae normal ; hind pair very long, coxae large and thick, 

 projecting well away from the body ; tibiae very long and thin ; tarsi dark, long, 

 first segment half the length of the second ; femora with short hairs ; tibiae with 

 long, thick, spine-like hairs on one ^side, smaller ones on the other and over the 



Fig 34. Protolachnus tuherculostemmata. sp. n. ; 

 A,^ head, pronotum and antenna of alaite $: (c^) frontal hairs ; B, canda 

 and anal plate ; C, hind leg ; D, lateral stemmata. E. head and antenna 

 of apterous $ ; F, proboscis ; G, hind leg ; H, cornicle. 



whole surface ; a pair of long apical hairs on the basal tarsal segment and smaller 

 ones on the other side and moderately long ones on the second segment. Wings 

 with dehcate stigma and veins, faintly greenish. Length, 1-5 mm. ; wing expanse, 

 3-5 mm. 



Apterous viviparous female.- — Narrow ; green to yellowish green, bearing dusky 

 tubercles from which arise short stifi black hairs. Head nearly as wide as the thorax, 

 adorned with hairs as in the alate female ; eyes large, black, prominent. Antennae 

 about half the length of the body, brown, paler at the base ; basal segment very 

 Httle wider than the second, of the same length ; third segment the longest ; fourth 

 about half as long as the third ; fifth a little longer than the fourth, with a large sub- 

 apical sensorium ; sixth shorter than the fifth, with a short blunt nail, one large 

 sensorium on it and a group of smaller ones below ; all the segments with a few 

 moderately long stiff hairs ; dusky, except the two basal segments, which are greenish ; 



