148 ME. walker's catalogue or homopteeous insects 



testaceous beneath ; tip thickly covered with white flecks. Wings hyalme, 

 slightly cinereous ; veins black ; exterior transverse veinlets and tips of 

 the apical veins of the fore wings clouded with brown ; stigma brown. 

 Length of the body 3 lines ; of the wings 7 lines. 



35. Cixius VILIS, n. s., foem. Niger, frontis lateribus feuioribusque fulris, 

 thorace tricarmato, scgmeutorimi abdominahum marginibus albidis, tibiis 

 tarsisque testaceis, ahs hyaliuis apice fuscis, venis nigris basi fulvis, stigmate 

 Bordide testaceo postice nigro. 



Female. Black. Head with elevated borders ; vertex very narrow ; front 

 with tawny sides, forming with the face a fusiform compartment which has 

 a middle ridge. Prothorax extremely short. Mesotliorax with three parallel 

 keels. Segments of the abdomen with whitish borders. Legs testaceous ; 

 femora tawny. Wmgs hyaline, shghtly gi-eyish, with brown tips ; veins 

 black, tawny at the base ; stigma duigy testaceous, black hindward. 

 Length of the body 2 hues ; of the wings 5 hnes. 



36. Cixius modicus, n. s., mas. Testaceus, capite supra angusto subtus 

 fusiformi, thoracis disco abdomineque supra fuscis, thorace tricarmato, 

 alls subhyalinis ; anticis fusco vix trifasciatis apice fuscescentibus, venis 

 nigris basi testaceis. 



Male. Testaceovis. Head with elevated borders ; vertex narrow ; front and 

 face together fusiform with a middle ridge. Mesothorax with three parallel 

 keels ; its disk brown. Abdomen above brown ; hmd borders of the 

 segments testaceous. Wmgs nearly hyaline ; fore wings vnih. three slender 

 and very mcomplete brown bands ; tips brownish ; veins black, testaceous 

 at the base. Length of the body 2 lines ; of the wings 5 lines. 



37. Cixirs NDXUS, n. s., foem. Testaceus, capite subtus perangusto, abdo- 

 mine nigro marguiibus testaceis, alls hyalinis, anticis testaceo fasciatis, 

 fasciis interioribus nigricante marginatis exterioribus fusco nebulosis. 



Female. Closely alUed to C. Meander, Walk. Testaceous. Head with 

 elevated borders, shghtly ascending and conical above; front and face 

 very narrow. Abdomen black ; hind borders of the segments testaceous. 

 Wings hyahne. Fore wuigs with irregular testaceous bands, of which the 

 interior have incomplete blackish borders, and the exterior are partly 

 clouded with brown ; veins testaceous. Length of the body 2 hues ; of 

 the wmgs 42 lines. 



38. Cixius despectus, n. s., foem. Nigricans, carinis abdominc subtus 

 pedibusque testaceis, alls cinereo-hyalinis, anticis latis, fasciis plm'imis 

 transversis intiis nigricantibus extus fuscis, venis nonnuUis marginahbus 

 furcatis. 



Female. Blackish. Ridges of the head, abdomen beneath and legs testaceous. 

 Head shghtly conical and ascenduig above ; fi-ont and face together almost 

 lanceolate, mth a rather high middle keel. Wings hyahne, shghtly cine- 

 reous ; fore wuigs broad, with several slender and mterrupted bands, which 

 are blackish towards the base and brown towards the exterior border ; 

 veins testaceous. Length of the body 2 lines ; of the wings 5 hnes. 



