770 LIST OF HOMOPTEROUS INSECTS. 



part of tlie shield yellowish, with black clots : breast and legs yel- 

 low: abdomen black, yellow beneath on each side and tow^ards the 

 tip: fore-wings colourless along the fore border and at the tips: 

 hind-wings brownish. Length of the body 2 lines ; of the wings 

 4 lines. 



a. Xorth America. 



97. Tettigonia tenella. 



Nigra ; caput flavo varium, subtus ferrugineum nigro vittatum ; 

 scutum nigro-aiieum, Jlavo trifasciatum; scutellum Jiavum, 

 nigro ynaculatum ; pectus et abdomen picea, hoc Jiavo bivitta- 

 tum ; alee anticcB Jiavo octo-vittat(B ; albce posticce fuscce. 



Black, shining : head very short, rounded in front, with a yel- 

 low band along the concave hind border, and in front another which 

 is divided, and incloses a triangular space on each side ; two black 

 dots on the fore border ; face and epistoma ferruginous, with a black 

 stripe, which is widened in front ; two yellow streaks on each side 

 of the face ; mouth yellow, with a pitchy tip : shield brassy black, 

 with a yellow curved band, and with two dingy yellow, straight 

 bands, one on the disk, the other along the hind border : scutcheon 

 yellow, with a black, transverse spot on the disk : breast and abdo- 

 men pitchy, the former with a short yellow stripe on each side : fore- 

 wings with eight yellow stripes, brown towards the tips : hind-wings 

 brown. Length of the body If line ; of the wings 3i lines. 



a. North America. Presented by the Entomological Club. 



98. Tettigonia innotata. 



Flava; scutum ferrugineo fasciatum, nigro unimaculatum ; abdo- 

 men supra fuscum ; alee anticcB rirides, apice et ad costam 

 limpidcE ; aim posticce limpida. 



Yellow: head wanting: shield with a broad ferruginous band 

 in the disk, and with a black spot in front, where it joins the head : 

 abdomen brown above : fore-wings grass-green, colourless along the 

 fore border and towards the tips : hind-wings colourless. Length 

 of the body 2 lines ; of the wings 4 lines. 



a. Brazil. Presented by John Miers, Esq. 



