. Rhynchota ... onsiderable size and the absence of pale spots. (Melichar.) Length $ 3 millim. Hah. Ceylon; Peradeniya {Jide Melichar). I have not seen this species. 2606. Xestocephalus paganurus, MeUch. Horn. Faun. Ceylon, p. 207 (1903). Similar to X. ajpicalis in form and size and to A, rjuttatus inmarkings; the whole body is yellowish-brown, shining; vertexunspotted ; pronotum with four pale roundish spots along theposterior margin, and four similar spots forming a semicii^cle onthe disk; scutellum with a brown triangle in the basal angles ;tegmina twice as long as broad with numerous large
. Rhynchota ... onsiderable size and the absence of pale spots. (Melichar.) Length $ 3 millim. Hah. Ceylon; Peradeniya {Jide Melichar). I have not seen this species. 2606. Xestocephalus paganurus, MeUch. Horn. Faun. Ceylon, p. 207 (1903). Similar to X. ajpicalis in form and size and to A, rjuttatus inmarkings; the whole body is yellowish-brown, shining; vertexunspotted ; pronotum with four pale roundish spots along theposterior margin, and four similar spots forming a semicii^cle onthe disk; scutellum with a brown triangle in the basal angles ;tegmina twice as long as broad with numerous large pale yellowroundish spots which locally coalesce, the last spot ou costal marginexhibiting a semicircular figure : wings fuliginous; face brown ;front unmarked, smooth, arched; body beneath and legs brown ;dorsum piceous-browu. {Melichar.) Length $ 3 millim. Hah. Ceylon {fide Melichar). I have not seen this species. 2607. Xestocephalus pardalinns, sp. n. Vertex brownish-ochraceous, with two discal spots and two. Fig. 222.—Xestocephabis pardaliims. transverse lines on apical margin (defining two pale spots)castaneous; pronotum castaneous with eight ochraceous spots, six MONOBAZUS. 351 in arcuate marginal series and two at basal margin ; scutellumbroAvnish-ochraceous, with a piceous spot near each basal angle ;tegmina brownish-ochraceous with numerous large piceous spotsand reticulate macular markings, these are faithfully pourtrayed onthe figure and are thus better described than by words, the apicalarea, however, is distinctly paler and the spots there appear moreprominent; body beneath and legs ochraceous, the posterior tibia)spotted with piceous-brown ; the anterior edge of the face ismarked by two dark transverse lines, thus making the two palespots as seen on edge of vertex very visible. Length 4 millim. Hah. Ceylon ; Maskeliya {Green). Division THAMNOTETTIXARIA. Athvsanini, Van Diizce (part.), Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xix, p. 299(1892). Differs from the preceding division A
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