. Rhynchota ... lum piceous, the former with dull pale flavescentgranules; sternum and abdomen black, the former more or lessspotted with flavescent, the segments of the latter posteriorlynarrowly margined with ochraceous ; tegmina dull pale flavescent,densely suifused with piceous or fuscous, the veins, particularly onapical area, spotted with fuscous, beyond the middle a subtriangularcostal spot sordidly whitish, followed by a fuscous spot, apex moreor less fuscous; the last segment of the abdomen in the 2 almosttwice as long as the penultimate; vertex with a narrow centralcarination. 328 JA
. Rhynchota ... lum piceous, the former with dull pale flavescentgranules; sternum and abdomen black, the former more or lessspotted with flavescent, the segments of the latter posteriorlynarrowly margined with ochraceous ; tegmina dull pale flavescent,densely suifused with piceous or fuscous, the veins, particularly onapical area, spotted with fuscous, beyond the middle a subtriangularcostal spot sordidly whitish, followed by a fuscous spot, apex moreor less fuscous; the last segment of the abdomen in the 2 almosttwice as long as the penultimate; vertex with a narrow centralcarination. 328 [^tVar. a. Agreeing with Walkers unique type here figured, butwith the tegmina more universally spotted and less fasciatelysuffused with fuscous or pieeoiis. Var. h. Paler in hue, pronotum with the ilavesceut granulesfused and giving the appearance of an ochraceous surface speckledwith black; scutellum ochraceous with two costal and two basalangular black spots; tegmina with the typical pale costal Fig. 210.—Jassus indicus. Var, c. Resembling var. a, but tegmina without the pale costalspot, the ground-colour above is also paler and more ochraceous inhue. Length inch tegm. 7 to 8 millim. Hah. North India {); Mussoorie; Bhim Tal,Kumaon(Annandale, Ind. Mus.). Bombay {Brit. Mus.): Bandra {JayaJcar,) Burma; Ruby Mines (Z)o7iert?/). Tenasserim; Myitta{Dolierty). I recognize this variable species in all its forms by the distinctivestructure and coloration of the face, the margins of which arebroadly cinnabar-brown. 2576. Jassus maldivensis, sp. n. Vertex ochraceous, a little darkly speckled, the ocelli minutelyblackish; pronotum and scutellum tliickly granulosely ochraceous,the interstices here and there black, the scutellum transverselyimpressed before apical area which is uniformly ochraceous; faceand clypeus ochraceous thickly speckled with black, the latter withtwo prominent pale spots near base, cheeks pale ochraceous;abdomen above brownish-och
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