LIST OF HOMOPTEROUS INSECTS. 



64. Tettigonia pruinosa. 



Testacea, alh o -pruinosa ; verticis latera picea ; fades Jiavo unima- 

 culata; scutum piceo aut Jiavo i-arium ; abdomen nigrum, 

 subtus piceo interrupte vittatum ; tibice anticce tarsique picea ; 

 alee posticce lurida. 



Testaceous, rather stout, covered with a white bloom: head 

 short ; crown pitchy on each side ; face with a yellow spot on the 

 disk, which is shinning; ridf^es on each side oblique, very distinct; 

 epistoma keeled ; shield roughly punctured ; partly pitchy or yellow ; 

 abdomen mostly black above, with an interrupted pitchy stripe be- 

 neath : feet and fore-shanks pitchy: hind-wings lurid. Length of 

 the body 5 lines ; of the wings 9 lines. 



a. Rio Janeiro. Presented by J. P. G. Smith, Esq. 



6.5. Tettigonia concinna. 



Miniata ; vertex nigro fasciatus ; pectus luteum ; scutum nigra 

 fasciatum ; pedes lutei ; alcB posticcB fusca^. 



Bright red-lead colour, shining, rather slender: head rather 

 prominent ; crown with a black angular band along the hind border ; 

 disk of the face almost flat ; sides luteous, with indistinct, very 

 oblique furrows ; epistoma keeled, luteous, as are also the mouth and 

 the breast : shield with a broad, slightly convex black band along 

 the fore border : legs luteous: fore-wings wanting ; hind-wings pale 

 brown ; a broad band and the tips darker. Length of the body 3^ 

 lines ; of the wings 8 lines. 



66. Tettigonia cara. 



Flavo-alba ; caput antice tuteum ; thorax f us co quadrimaculatus ; 

 abdomen croceum basi Jlavum ; pedes fulvi ; alee anticce alba 

 guttis tribus fasciisque duabus incarnatis. 



Yellowish white, rather stout : head short ; front, face, epi- 

 stoma, and mouth luteous ; disk of the face almost flat ; furrows on 

 each side oblique, not very distinct : shield with an oblong brow^n 

 spot on each side of the fore border ; scutcheon with a brown spot 

 on each side ; breast yellow : abdomen orange, yellow at the base : 



