232 NEW SPECIES OF TINGITID^E 



Atheas insignis n. sp. 



Body narrow and depressed, elongate-oval; color 

 black, in fresh specimens covered with a pruinose sub- 

 stance which is less conspicuous on the head and 

 thorax. Head rather short with two longitudinal 

 black stripes and a small obtuse tubercle in front; the 

 antenniferous tubercles prominent, broad at base, 

 acute at tip; the buccal laminse moderately broad and 

 a little extended to beyond the margin of the head, 

 rounded in front, yellowish- white, with two rows of 

 very small cells. The eyes globose and black. An- " $ 



tennae comparatively short; the basal two joints stout 



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and black, the first slightly constricted before the 



middle, the second considerably shorter, the third 

 slender, about twice as long as the terminal, slightly 



thickened towards base, yellowish-white except at base where there is a 

 short black band; last joint less stout than the first two, fusiform and black- 

 ish, beset with whitish fine hairs interspersed with longer ones. Pronotum 

 without a hood, tricarinate, feebly convex, finely punctured and a little de- 

 pressed anteriorly; the carinse yellowish- white, slightly raised but showing 

 minute cells with some of the cross nervures blackish, the median carina 

 runs from the anterior margin of the pronotum to the triangular posterior 

 portion, the latter has at apex some pale yellowish small areoles and the tip 

 is obtusely rounded; the outer carinae abbreviated, bending inwardly before 

 and behind the middle; membranous lateral margins of the pronotum very 

 narrow, slightly sinuated near the middle, extending laterally to a little 

 past the eyes, posteriorly rounded, meeting the basal part of the elytra, unise- 

 riate, with a few minute cells at inner side, hyaline; yellowish-white, the 

 cross nervures somewhat blackish; anterior margin a little rounded, nar- 

 rowly pale yellowish. 



Elytra oblong-oval and narrow, widest at middle, much longer than 

 the abdomen, the lateral margins [in the male] distinctly sinuate towards 

 apex and broadly rounded at tip; discoidal area rather narrow, widest at 

 the middle, obtusely pointed at apex, about half as long as the elytra, with 

 three or four rows of small areoles at widest part, pale yellowish except the 

 outer and inner nervures which are black; subcostal area very narrow 

 throughout, with two rows of minute areoles; costal area hyaline, yellowish- 

 white, broader than the subcostal, with one row of rather long and large 

 areoles, a few additional smaller ones near the edge of the lateral margins, 

 the cross-nervures blackish; the sutural area has irregular rather large 

 areoles with the nervures black or brownish except at inner part which is 

 yellowish and closely reticulated. In the female the elytra are somewhat 

 broader and more evenly rounded at the sides than in the male. Rostrum 

 very short, not reaching farther than to the anterior coxae; rostral laminae 

 feebly raised, converging at the middle of the mesosternum; metasternum 

 longer than broad, closed in front. Genital segment of female broadly 

 rounded at apex, that of the male convexly rounded with a small shining 

 hump at the middle. Wings whitish, iridescent, nearly as long as the 

 elytra. Legs rather short, yellowish, last tarsal joint and claws blackish. 



Length 2.4 m.m.; width across the widest part of the elytra 0.8 m.m. 



