. Rhynchota ... , widened below; eyes transverselyoval, at inner margins towards antenual cavities waved.(^Fieber.) The species here enumerated under Plilepsius have the anteriormargin of the pronotum more convex and less triangular than istypical, but 1 cannot And any other character to exclude themfrom Fiebers genus. 2602. Phlepsius divaricatus, Melich. (Parallygus) Horn. Faun. Ceylon,p. 179, t. V, f. 7 a,b (1903). Brownish-yellow; on the margin of vertex four black spots,of \Thich the two inner ones are at the tip, and sometimes con-nected with a very small angulated spot, the lateral spots
. Rhynchota ... , widened below; eyes transverselyoval, at inner margins towards antenual cavities waved.(^Fieber.) The species here enumerated under Plilepsius have the anteriormargin of the pronotum more convex and less triangular than istypical, but 1 cannot And any other character to exclude themfrom Fiebers genus. 2602. Phlepsius divaricatus, Melich. (Parallygus) Horn. Faun. Ceylon,p. 179, t. V, f. 7 a,b (1903). Brownish-yellow; on the margin of vertex four black spots,of \Thich the two inner ones are at the tip, and sometimes con-nected with a very small angulated spot, the lateral spots contiguousto the ocelli; face yellowish without markings ; pronotum marbledwith brown, a black longitudinal streak on the sides; scutellum PHLEPSIUS. 347 with several dark longitudinal streaks which form the borders ofthe usual basal triangles, two dots before the impressed transverseline and two marginal spots before the tip ; tegmina brownish-yellow, ^^-ith brown not very strong veins, the apical part spotted. Fig. 220.—Phlcpsins divaricatus. with brown, sometimes with indistinct longitudinal spots in thecells; wings smoky bro\vu; pectus, abdomen and legs brownish-yellow ; back black. {Melicliar.) (Described from a single 6specimen.) This is a variable species ; in the S specimen here figured thefour anterior spots to the vertex are fused ; in some specimens thescutellum is as described and figured by Melichar, in others thebasal angles are filled in and dark; in all the specimens I haveexamined there are three dark spots on each claval sutural margin(as in the figure, supra) but sometimes these spots are veryindistinct. Length inch tegm. d ife 5 (U to 7 miUini. Hah. Ceylon; Maskehya (Gjveu). 2603. Phlepsius plumbeus, sp. u. Vertex pale greyish-white, two piceous spots at base nearer eyesthan to each other and four minute testaceous spots of which twoare central and two wider apart on anterior margin, a minutecentral piceous spot at middle of anterior margin and a shortlon
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