664 LIST OF HOMOPTEROUS INSECTS. 



on each segment beneath : legs red : memhrauous part of the fore- 

 wings reddish, adorned with seven black spots, which form two in- 

 terrupted slightly curved bands ; a few black marks on the disks of 

 some of the areolets of the reticulated part, which is lurid ; veins 

 red : hind-wings gray, red at the base ; veins brown, red towards 

 the base. Length of the body 4— 5^ lines; of the wings 11 — 13 

 lines. 



44. Cercopis proxima. 



Picea ; caputs scutelhim, pectus, abdomen et pedes ferruginea ; 

 alee anticcB ferruginea, apice fuscce ; alee posticce cinerece. 



Body pitchy, shining- head ferruginous; front very convex, 

 transversely furrowed, not keeled : chest thinly and very minutely 

 punctured ; scutcheon and breast ferruginous : abdomen pale ferru- 

 ginous : legs ferruginous : fore-wings pale ferruginous, very mi- 

 nutely punctured ; reticulated part brown : hind-wings gray ; veins 

 browii, tawny at the base. Length of the body 4^ lines ; of the 

 wings II lines. 

 a. Java. From the East India Company's collection. 



45. Cercopis costalis. 



Nigra ; caput et thorax luteo fasciata ; pectus Jlavo viaculatuvi ; 

 abdomen purpureum, subtus Jlavum macuiis nigris trivitta- 

 tum ; pedes fulvi ; femora et tibia antica fusca ; femora 

 subtus fiava; alee anticce fuscce rufo bifasciatcs et univit- 

 tatcB, flavo univittatiB. 



Black : head shining ; front adorned with a semicircular lu- 

 leous band, which is prolonged in a conical form to the face ; the 

 latter is smooth, very convex, with slight transverse furrows, not 

 keeled, yellow along each side : mouth yellow, with a pitchy tip: 

 chest dull, very thickly punctured; fore-chest with a luteous band 

 along the fore border, and extending on each side to the base of the 

 fore-wing ; hind border slightly concave : scutcheon lurid on each 

 side; breast with large yellow marks along each side: abdomen 

 purple, black, with yellow bands at the tip ; under side yellow, with 

 three rows of transverse black spots; the side rows on the rim, 

 which is very broad: legs tawny; thighs and fore-shanks brown; 

 thighs yellow beneath : fore-wings dark brown, with two narrow pale 

 red bands, one at one-third, the other at two-thirds of the length ; 

 a yellow stripe extending along the fore border from the base to the 



