LIST OF HOMOPTEROUS INSECTS. b77 



11. MONECPHOEA. INCAENATA. 



Sanguinea ; thorax niyro trifasciatus ; pectus, abdomen, femora et 

 tarsi nigra ; alec anlicce nigro varicB. 



Bright crimsou colour: head above with a black reversed V- 

 shaped furrow; face and epistoma very convex and prominent, 

 forming au almost right angle, black on each side, clothed with 

 short black hairs : mouth and antennae black : chest roughly punc- 

 tured, with three black bands; the first half-interrupted ; the second 

 interrupted; the third entire: breast and abdomen black ; thighs 

 black, with red tips; feet and tips of shanks black: fore-wings with 

 a short angular black stripe in the disk near the base, and with seve- 

 ral black marks near the tips, which are black ; cross-veins very few : 

 hind-wings almost colourless, dark brown about the hind border at 

 the base ; tips brown ; veins tawny, red at the base and along the 

 fore borders, brown at the tips. Length of the body 4Hines ; of the 

 wings 10 lines. 



a — i. Interior of South Africa. Presented by Dr. A. Smith. 



12. MONECPHOEA FLEXUOSA. 



Viridis ; scutellum, abdomen et pedes rufa; femora nigra vittata ; 

 alee anticce fusccB, rufo bivittatce et unifasciatce. 



Metallic green, tinged with blue and purple : head and chest 

 shagreened : head almost flat above; face very convex, with a slight 

 keel, on each side of which are parallel slightly oblique ridges : 

 mouth red, with a black tip : antennae black, red at the base : scu- 

 tellum red, emarginate on each side : abdomen red ; appendages 

 black, reverted: legs red; thighs striped with black: fore- wings 

 dark brown, thickly punctured, with two pale red stripes, which pro- 

 ceed from the base to one-third of the length, where they are curved 

 upward ; a pale red waved band at two-thirds of the length: hind- 

 wings pale brown ; veins black, bright red at the base. Length of 

 the body 4 lines ; of the wings 10 lines. 



13. MoNECPHORA RADIATA. 



Nigra ; thorax ferrugineo fasciatus, vittis duabus scutelloque fid- 

 vis ; pedes picei, femoribns subius tibiisque posticis fulvis ; 

 alcE anticcB rufo quinque littatce. 



Black: head and chest rugulose: head above ferruginous on 

 the disk, tawny along the fore border; face very convex, tawny 



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