. Rhynchota ... marginal spots darker andmore piceous in hue ; head beneath (including face) pale virescent,face with short indistinct transverse strise : body beneath and legsmore ochraceous, the tibiae finely darkly maculate ; tegmina creamy-w^hite, the venations and some small scattered spots pale fuscous,a large somewhat outwardly rounded brownish spot or patch ex-tending beyond apex of claval area, more or less margined withpiceous, and usually with a large piceous spot (sometimes absent)on disk at its inner margin, and containing two or three creamyspots on sutural margin, the upper and
. Rhynchota ... marginal spots darker andmore piceous in hue ; head beneath (including face) pale virescent,face with short indistinct transverse strise : body beneath and legsmore ochraceous, the tibiae finely darkly maculate ; tegmina creamy-w^hite, the venations and some small scattered spots pale fuscous,a large somewhat outwardly rounded brownish spot or patch ex-tending beyond apex of claval area, more or less margined withpiceous, and usually with a large piceous spot (sometimes absent)on disk at its inner margin, and containing two or three creamyspots on sutural margin, the upper and larger two enclosing aminute brown spot, apex of tegmina with a more or less well-defined brownish patch preceded by a discal piceous inch tegm. 4 Ceylon ; Marawila {Gretn), Peradeniya, Henaratgoda (Jide ELTETTIX. •6Gc 3Iehc7iar).—Borneo (Wallace, Brit. Mas.); Santubong {TTevna).Distributed generally tliroughout the Malayan Japan. East Africa {fide McUcliar).. Fig. 230.—Eutettix disciguttus. The specimen figured is a Ceylonese specimen which exactlyagrees with Walkers Bornean type. 2619. Eutettix apricus, Melich. Horn. Faun. Ceylon, p. 190 (1903). Size, form and pattern of the previous species, but differsas follows:—Vertex and pronotum smooth, shining greenish-yellow without any markings ; face also greenish-yellow, unmarked ;scutellum rusty-yellow, with four darker longitudinal streaks atthe base; tegmina hyaline, with rust-brown veins and withnumerous spots and transverse dashes between them, the largetriangular spot on the terminal suture rust-brown, stronglyshining, and bordered on the fore and apical margins with nume-rous hyaline white spots, in the apical area of tegmina four whitehyaline black-bordered spots in a quadrangle; wings hyaline,strongly irridescent, with brown veins ; pectus and abdomen dirty-yellow, a black longitudinal mark on the back; legs as in theprevious species. (Melichar.) Length $ 3^ millim.
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