686 LIST OF HOMOPTEROUS INSECTS. 



Genus 5. SPHENORHINA. 



Sphenorhina, Amyot et Serv. Hist. Nat. Hem. 562, 464. 

 Cicada, p., Linn., Deg. 



Cercopis, p., Fabr., Germ., St. Farg. et Serv., Burin., Blanch., 

 Guer. 



1. Sphenorhina lineolata. 



Sphenorhina lineolata, Amyot et Serv. Hist. Nat. Hem. 563, 1, pi. 



10, f. 7. 

 S. America ? 



2. Sphenorhina marginata. 



Cercopis marginata, Fahr. Ent. Syst. iv. 48, 2. Syst. Rhyn. 90, 10. 

 a. Brazil. 



3. Sphenorhina rueivaria. 



Nigra, rufo viltata et marginata ; abdominis dorsum rufum ; pedes 

 ruji, femoribus basi tarsisque nigris ; alee anticce fusccB, rufo 

 bivittatce, nigra semi-mar ginatce. 

 Black, shining : crown of the head with a bright red stripe ex- 

 tending to the face, which is bright red, and has on each side a 

 pitchy disk, with about twelve oblique furrows : feelers pale towards 

 the tips : middle stripe and border of the chest bri^^ht red : disk of 

 the back of the abdomen dark red : legs red ; thighs towards the 

 base and at the tips, hips, feet, and tips of shanks black : fore- 

 wings brown, narrow, black along the borders from the middle to the 

 tips ; the black is accompanied by a red stripe, which, towards the 

 base, occupies the fore border, and diverges thereunto from the hind 

 border: hind-wings brown ; veins black. Length of the body 5 — 6 

 lines ; of tbe wings 16 — 18 lines. 



a, b. Brazil. 



4. Sphenorhina compressa. 



Cercopis compressa, St. Farg.et Serv. Enc. Meth. x. 606, 9. Sloll, 



Cic.pl. 21, f. 112. 

 a. Brazil. Presented by J. G. Children, Esq. 

 6, c. Brazil. 



