718 LIST OF HOMOPTEROUS INSECTS. 



31. Ptvelus fingens. 



Flarus ; thorax pieeo hivittatus ; abdomen fulvum ; al(E antica 

 albidce, ferrugineo vittatcB, ad margines posticos fuhcs. 



Yellow, sliiniDg: bead aud chest flat: head concave along^ the 

 hind border, more convex in front where it has a slight notch on 

 each side ; its length less than half its breadth ; face convex, al- 

 most oval, with a punctured middle stripe, on each side of which 

 are nine shallow oblique cross ridges ; epistoma sligbtly keeled : 

 mouth tawny, reaching to the middle hips ; maxillae ferruginous ; 

 chest punctured, slightly impressed across in front, with a pitchy 

 stripe extending on each side from the eye to the base of the fore- 

 wing ; abdomen tawny ; tips of the feet pitchy : fore-wings whitish, 

 pale tawny towards the hind border, with an undulating ferruginous 

 stripe, which extends through the disk from the base to the tip ; 

 hind-wings colourless ; veins pale yellow. Length of the body 2^ 

 lines ; of the wings 6 lines. 



a. Colenso. Presented by Dr. Hooker. 



32. Ptyelus trimaculatus. 



Aphrophora trimaculata. White, Zool. Voy. Erebus ^- Terror, pi. 7, 



fig. 10. 

 a. New Zealand. Presented by Dr. Sinclair. 

 6, c. New Zealand. Presented by Dr. Hooker. 

 d. New Zealand. Presented by Dr. Hooker. 

 e,f. Colenso. Presented by Dr. Hooker. 



33. Ptyelus subvieescens. 



Aphrophora virescens, White, Zool. Voy. Erebus ^ Terror, pi. 7, 

 f. 9. 



a. New Zealand. Presented by Capt. Sir James C. Ross. 



34. Ptyelus punctum. 



Fulvus ; fades et pectus nigricantia ; alee antica marginis postici 

 prope apicem fusco biguttatcB. 



Pale tawny, covered with pale down : head and chest almost 

 flat: head very convex in front, with two furrows which diverge 

 from the fore border and communicate with two more oblique im- 



