784 LIST OF HOMOPTEROUS INSECTS. 



ruginous, with black spots : fore-wings pitchy, with tawny tips : 

 hind-wings slightly gray, bordered with pale brown. Length of the 

 body 4^ — 5 lines ; of the wings 9 — 10 lines. 



Var. /3. Black stripe on the face replaced by an angular spot ; 

 disk of the front of the face and of the epistoma black : tip of the 

 scutcheon ferruginous: abdomen ferruginous beneath and at the 

 tip. 



Var. y. Head and chest ferruginous ; scutcheon and hind part 

 of the shield partly black : abdomen ferruginous beneath and at the 

 tip : thighs pitchy. 



Var. 8, like var. y. Head pitchy on each side, slightly ridged in 

 front. 



a — d. St. John's Bluff, E. Florida. Presented by E. Doubleday, 



Esq. 

 e. North America. 



/-.;■. ? 



9. Proconia clarior. 



Nigra ; caput luteum, nigro varium ; thorax niger, viridi gutta- 

 tus ; ahdonien suhtus et apice luteum ; pedes lutei ; alee anticce 

 picece, apice fulvce ; dies posticcB suhcinerece, apice fusccB. 



Head luteous, adorned above with black stripes and bands, 

 which enclose six entire and three imperfect quadrilateral compart- 

 ments ; tip of tbe epistoma black : mouth ferruginous with a black 

 tip : chest black, thickly covered with pale greenish dots, luteous and 

 varied with black in front; scutcheon luteous, marked with black: 

 abdomen black, luteous beneath on each side and at the tip : legs 

 luteous : fore-wings pitcliy with tawny tips ; hind-wings slightly 

 gray, dark brown along the hind borders and for near half the length 

 from the tips. Length of the body 4^ — 5 lines ; of the wings 9 — 10 

 lines. 



Var. /3. Fore-wings with pale spots. 



Var. -y. Compartments on the head mostly imperfect: hind- 

 wings brown for two-thirds of the length from the tips. 



Var. 8. All the compartments on the head imperfect : three- 

 fourths of the hind-wings brown. 



a — c. St. John's Bluff, E. Florida. Presented by E. Doubleday, 



Esq. 

 d. Nova Scotia ? 



