872 LIST OF HOMOPTEROUS INSECTS. 



excluding the eyes, is about thrice the length ; hind border and face 

 whitish, the latter flat, slightly tinged in part with very pale red ; 

 epistoina very small ; shield very finely striated across, convex in 

 front, almost straight along the hind border, white on each side : 

 breast and abdomen black : legs pale yellow : fore-wings colourless, 

 with three coppery ferruginous bands, one at the base, the third at 

 the tip ; veins ferruginous: hind-wings colourless. Length of the 

 body 2 lines ; of the wings 5 lines. 



a, b. New Holland. From Mr. Argent's collection. 



45. Btthoscopus albidus. 



Fiavo-alhus ; "pedes Jiavi; aim anticcs suhjlavescentes ; alee posticce 

 alhidce. 



Yellowish-white : head short, as broad as the chest, slightly 

 rounded in front ; crown almost flat, equally long across its whole 

 breadth, which, excluding the eyes, is full thrice the length ; face 

 truncate-conical, very slightly convex; epistomasubquadrate : chest 

 flat ; shield finely transversely striated ; scutcheon smooth, with an 

 almost straight suture across the middle : legs pale yellow : wings 

 transparent : fore-wings slightly tinged with yellow : hind-wings 

 whitish. Length of the body 2i lines ; of the wings 5 lines. 



a, h. Honduras. From Mr. Miller's collection. 



46. Bythoscopus austealis. 



Testaceous^ fusco undatus, subtus Jlavus ; fades fusco vittata 

 et multifasciata ; scutellum Jlavian, fusco trivittatum, nigro 

 bimaculatiim ; -pectus Jlarum ; abdomen supra ferrugineum, 

 albido fasciatum, subtus Jlavum ; alee anticrs luridce ; alee 

 posticee subcinereee. 



Testaceous, adorned with undulating brown marks, yellow be- 

 neath : head very short, as broad as the chest, indistinctly angular 

 in front ; crown longer on each side than in the middle, where its 

 length is not more than one-twelfth of its breadth ; face punctured, 

 large, truncate-conical, with a spindle-shaped brovvn stripe, and on 

 each side with a row of short brown bands ; epistoma narrow^, linear: 

 shield transversely striated, semicircular along the fore border, very 

 slightly concave behind ; scutcheon yellow, with three brown streaks, 

 and with a black spot on each side of the fore border : breast yellow 



