. Rhynchota ... newith an iridescent tint; body beneath and legs pale greyish-brown ; posterior tibise spotted with brown, its extreme apexblack, posterior tarsi spotted with black ; lateral and apical marginsof face and lateral margins of clypeus very narrowly and linearlyblack ; vertex about as long as breadth between eyes, transverselylinearly impressed in front of eyes, before \\hich there is a slighttransverse ridge ; scutellum with a transverse impression nearmiddle. Length 4 millim. Hah. Bengal; Pusa {Lefroy). Mr. Lefroy sent a single example of this species, 2645. Deltocephahis distinc
. Rhynchota ... newith an iridescent tint; body beneath and legs pale greyish-brown ; posterior tibise spotted with brown, its extreme apexblack, posterior tarsi spotted with black ; lateral and apical marginsof face and lateral margins of clypeus very narrowly and linearlyblack ; vertex about as long as breadth between eyes, transverselylinearly impressed in front of eyes, before \\hich there is a slighttransverse ridge ; scutellum with a transverse impression nearmiddle. Length 4 millim. Hah. Bengal; Pusa {Lefroy). Mr. Lefroy sent a single example of this species, 2645. Deltocephahis distinctus, Motsch. Etvd. Ent. 1859, p. 112;Melich. Horn. Faun. Ceylon, p. 200, t. iv, f. 21, a, b (1903). Body above dull ochraceous; anterior margin of vertex blackwith five white spots ; eyes piceous; tegmina with most of theveins whitish but in all cases a little paler than the tegminalsurface, with two or three blackish macular shadings (as in thespecimen here figured), though these are inconstant, interior of the. Fig. 240.—Beltocephalus distinctus. apical cells paler; anterior margin of head beneath showing theextremities of the black and white markings above: face withcurved transverse darker markings medially palely longitudinally DELTOCEPHALUS. 383 interrupted ; legs finely spotted with pieeous, the tibial spinulespiceous ; vertex broadly subtriangular, about as long as pronotum ;scutellum with two slightly raised white lines at base, which is alittle darker than its apical area; face slightly convex. Length 3i to 4 millim. Hah. Ceylon ; Colombo {fide Motschoulsky), Peradeniya {Green),Henaratgoda {fide Melichar). Motschoulsky makes no mention of the dark spots to thetegmina,and these clearly constitute only an inconstant character. 2646. Deltocephalus laetus, Melich. Hotn. Faun. Ceylon, p. 202(1903). Vertex triangularly produced, above slightly arched andgreyish-white like the pronotum and scutellum, behind the eyes isa broad transverse band running from one eye to the oth
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