750 LIST OF HOMOPTEEOUS INSECTS. 



thighs and shanks black towards the tips ; feet partly black : fore- 

 wings lurid, adorned with numerous white dots, bright red near the 

 tips and thence for a short space along each border ; fore border and 

 hind border bright red, a purple tinge alongside the former : hind- 

 wings brown with a coppery lustre, paler along the fore borders. 

 Length of the body 5 lines; of the wings 12 lines. 



a. Quito. Presented by M. Bourcier. 



53. Tettigonia teita. 



Rufa, robusta ; scutelli discus nigricans ; abdomen nigro-purpureo 

 vittaturn, laleribus albu maculatis, ventre Jiavo apice rufo ; tarsi 

 apice nigri ; alee anticcB luridce, basi et ad costam rufcB ; alee 

 posticafuscce. 



Bright red, rather stout: head short ; crown semicircular; face 

 flat on the disk, w^ilh some slight, oblique ridges on each side; epi- 

 stoma keeled : disk of the scutcheon blackish : abdomen with a 

 purplish black stripe along the back, and with a whitish triangular 

 spot on each side of every segment ; underside pale yellow with a 

 red tip; feet with black tips : fore-wings lurid, mostly red towards 

 the base along the fore border till near the tips: hind-wings brown. 

 Length of the body 5 lines ; of the wings 10 lines. 



a. Java. From the East India Company's collection. 



54. Tettigonia ^stuans. 



Crocea, robusta ; thorax nigra bifasciatus ; abdomen disco pur- 

 pureo-rufum, basi testaceuin et compressum ; pedes picei, fe- 

 moribus posferioribus Jlavis, tibiis intermediis fulvis ; alee 

 anticce ferruginece^ croceo trifasciatcB, apice luridts ; alcB pos- 

 ticcB lurid(B. 



Saffron-colour, stout, shining: head short, broader than the 

 chest ; crown concave on the hind border, more convex, and with a 

 black band in front ; underside testaceous ; face somewhat flattened, 

 very finely rugulose, smooth, with indistinct stria?, and with pale 

 brown, oblique bands on each side: mouth ferruginous; shield 

 transversely striated, with two black bands, one on each border ; 

 scutcheon black towards the base : abdomen purplish red on the 

 disk, testaceous and compressed towards the base : sheaths of the 



