700 LIST OF HOMOPTEROUS INSECTS. 



ruginous, convex along the fore border, almost spindle-shaped, with 

 three indistinct oblique tawny bands ; the first near the base, broad 

 and diffuse ; the second shortened in front ; the third interrupted : 

 hind-wings colourless, pale brown at the tips and along the hind 

 border ; veins brown, yellow at the base. Length of the body 3^ 

 lines; of the wings 10 lines. 



a. West Coast of America. Presented by Capt. Wood and Lieut. 

 Wood. 



6. Aphrophora rufiventris. 



Ferruginea ; pectoris discus niger ; abdomen rufum ; pedes fulvi ; 

 alee an lie ce pic eo ad costam trimaculatce. 



Head wanting : chest pale ferruginous, thickly and minute- 

 ly punctured, covered with tawny down : disk of the breast black ; 

 abdomen red: legs tawny: fore-wings pale ferruginous, thickly 

 covered with tawny down, with three pitchy marks on the fore 

 border; the second forming a band: hind-wings almost colourless, 

 pale brown at the tips and along the hind borders ; veins tawny, 

 darker towards the tips. Length of the body 4 lines ; of the wings 

 9 lines. 



7. Aphrophora sigillifera. 



Testacea, piceo varia,Jlavo vittaia ; fades ferruginea, piceo varia, 

 flavo vitiata et hifasciata; pectus nigra fasciatum ; abdomen 

 rufo-luteum ; pedes ferruginei, flavo niaculati; alee anticce 

 luridce, ad costam fuscce, albo maculates. 



Testaceous, shining : head and chest flat, with a slight yel- 

 low keel, roughly punctured, thinly covered with lawny down : head 

 above short, mostly pitchy, slightly concave on the hind border, 

 rather more convex in front ; its length less than one-fourth of its 

 breadth ; face ferruginous, partly pitchy, slightly convex, with a 

 very narrow yellow stripe, which is most distinct towards the epi- 

 stoma, and is there traversed by two slightly curved yellow bands, 

 one large, the other shorter and narrower ; on each side are about 

 ten oblique, slightly curved cross ridges : mouth ferruginous with a 

 pitchy tip : chest partly pitchy and slightly impressed on each side 

 in front: breast with a short, broad, black band between the fore- 

 legs and the middle-legs : abdomen luteous, reddish on each side 



