726 LIST OF HOMOPTEROUS INSECTS. 



5. Lepyronia convexa. 



Ferruginea ; fades Jiava ; pectus et abdomen picea ; femora basi^ 

 protibice et protarsi flava ; alee anticce piceo-maculatce, albo 

 unifasciatce. 



Pale ferruginous: head and chest flat, thickly and minutely 

 punctured : head almost conical in front, very slightly concave along 

 the hind border ; its length about half its breadth ; face yellow, very 

 convex and prominent, with about ten shallow hardly oblique ridges 

 on each side, w ith pitchy spaces between the six next the front ; 

 epistoma and mouth pitchy, the latter reaching the middle-hips : 

 breast and abdomen mostly pitchy : thighs towards the base, fore- 

 shanks and fore-feet yellow : fore-wings convex, elliptical, with a 

 few paie pitchy spots, pitchy towards the base, near which there is 

 an oblique white band, which does not reach the hind border : hind- 

 wings colourless ; veins pale yellow. Length of the body 2i lines ; 

 of the wings 5 lines. 



Var. j8. Fore-wings pale yellow towards the tips, with the ex- 

 ception of the borders of the veins. 



a. New Holland. Presented by the Haslar Hospital. 



b. New Holland. From Mr. Lambert's collection. 



6. Lepyrohia albicincta.? 



Testacea ; thorax postice piceus, albo fasciatus ; pectus flamim, 

 piceo varium ; pedes fulvi ; femora basi flava ; alee anticce 

 fusc(B^ albo fasciatce. 



Aphrophora albicincta? Erichson, Archiv. i. 1842,285,277. 



Testaceous, shining: head, chest, and fore-wings thickly and 

 minutely punctured : head and chest ilat: head with an indistinct 

 cross furrow in the disk, almost straight along the hind border, 

 slightly conical in front; face very convex and prominent, yellow, 

 with about twelve shallow, very slightly oblique cross ridges on each 

 side; the spaces between eight of these are pitchy ; epistoma partly 

 pitchy : mouth tawny, reaching the middle hips ; tip pitchy : hind 

 part of the chest pitchy, with a slightly undulating white band : 

 breast yellow, partly pitchy: abdomen pitchy : legs tawny; thighs 

 yellow towards the base; feet pitchy towards the tips: fore-wings 

 convex, elliptical, dark brown for two-thirds of the length, white, 



