HOMOPTERA. 53. 



PCECILOPTERA LURIDA. 



Mas et foem. Fulva ,• frons suhquadrata, tricarinata, margine elevato ; 

 thorax unicarinatus ; proihorax lateribus tuber culatis ; abdomen 

 pallida testaceum, alb lomentosum ; alee anticce apice rectangulata:, 

 costa intus convexa, margine exteriore recto vix obliquo; posticte 

 albcE. 



Male and female. Tawny. Front vertical, broader towards the face, 

 where its breadth ahnost exceeds its length, with straight sides, with an ele- 

 vated border and with three keels, the lateral pair obsolete towards the face. 

 Prothorax with a slight keel, tuberculate on each side, concave behind, 

 very conical in front. Mesolhorax with one keel. Abdomen pale testa- 

 ceous, with white tomentum. Fore wings convex along the basal part of 

 the costa, rectangular at the tips, almost straight and hardly oblique along 

 the exterior border, pustulated by the interior border; veins not numerous ; 

 transverse veinlets numerous; marginal veinlets short along the costa, very 

 short along the exterior border. Hind wings white. Length of the body 

 4 lines; of the wings 10 lines. 



Gambia. 



PCECILOPTEBA VARICOSA. 



Mas. Testacea ; frons transversa, tricarinata, lateribus rotundatis, margine 

 elevato; mesothorax unicarinatus; abdomen gibbosiim, sexualibns 

 falcatis bene determinalis ; alee anlicm apud eostam con'vexce, apice 

 rotunduta, margine exteriore recto, vix obliquo ; postica albce. 



Male. Testaceous. Front vertical, very much broader than long, 

 narrower towards the face, with an elevated border and with three slight 

 parallel keels, its sides rounded; face lanceolate, not keeled. Prothorax 

 irausverse, arched. Mesothorax with a slight middle keel. Abdomen 

 gibbose ; apical appendages falcate, much developed. Fore wings convex 

 along the costa, rounded at the tips, straight and hardly oblique along the 

 exterior border, pustukted by the interior border; veins and transverse 

 veinlets rather numerous; discal part concave along the exterior border ; 

 marginal veinlets long in front, very long along the exterior border, where 

 they are divided by a single line of transverse veinlets into two parts, and 

 are many of them forked in the outer part. Hind wings while. Length 



