LIST or HOMOPTEROUS INSECTS. 731 



Genus 7. CHALEPUS, n. 



Caput antice attenuatum, compressum, subarcuatum, ascendens. 



Head prolonged like those of some Fulgorma, attenuated, 

 compressed, ascending, more or less curved. 



1. Cha-Lepus hastatus. 



Ferruyinea ; caput supra et apice nigrum ; fades et pectus flavo 

 bivittata ; thorax Jlavo bimaculatus ; scutellum pice um, apice 

 Jlavum ; abdomen testaceum ; pedes testa cei ; alee antica Jlavo 

 fuscce. 



Ferruginous : head and chest finely punctured : head mostly 

 black above towards the tip, forming a long pointed horn, which is 

 inclined upwards, and whose length is more than twice its breadth 

 at the base ; face slightly convex, with a yellow stripe on each side ; 

 epistoma pitchy, with a tawny stripe : mouth ferruginous, reaching 

 the middle hips ; tip pitchy : chest with a small yellow spot on each 

 side ; scutcheon pitchy with a yellow tip : breast with a yellow 

 stripe on each side : abdomen and legs testaceous ; tips of the feet 

 pitchy : fore- wings yellowish brown, narrow, very convex along the 

 fore border, almost spindle-shaped: hind-wings broad, almost 

 colourless, with a tawny tinge towards the base ; veins brown, tawny 

 towards the base. Length of the body 4^ lines ; of the wings 

 9 lines. 



2. Chalepus telifeeus. 



Ferrugineus ; caput piceo trivittatum ; fades Jlai'a, piceo vittata ; 

 thorax piceo trivittatus ; pectus fulvum ; abdomen rufescens, 

 segmentorum marginibus fiavis ; pedes fulvo-favi^ tibiis ante- 

 rioribus rujis, tarsis anterioribus picds ; ala antica angusta, 

 piceo hifasciaf.cB. 



Ferruginous : head and chest minutely punctured, covered v.ith 

 tawny down : head tapering, much inclined upward, forming a long 

 prismatic pointed horn ; its length more than twice its breadth at 

 the base ; three pitchy stripes above ; face yellow, spindle-shaped, 

 with a pitchy stripe along the disk, on each side of which are ten 

 distinct very oblique cross ridges : epistoma yellow, with a ferrugi- 



