34 LIST OF HOMOPTEROUS INSECTS. 



seven black stripes ; the middle one linear, very much widened on 

 the fore border, and slightly widened on the hind border ; the next 

 pair forked, partly occupying the furrows ; the following pair on 

 the furrows ; the outer pair on each side ; hind-sculcheon bright 

 green, varied with tawny, slightly waved along the hind border, 

 rather narrow in the middle, much widened, and forming a black 

 nearly right angle on each side : scutcheon of the middle-chest 

 bright green ; disk tawny, adorned with three large black marks, of 

 these the side pair are oljconical and the middle one resembles a i^ 

 reversed ; hind border deeply excavated : abdomen nearly obconical, 

 a little shorter than the chest, mostly pitchy above with the excep- 

 tion of the hind borders of the segments : opercula none ; tymbals 

 pale tawny : drums green, short, hardly parted : legs green, tinged 

 with tawny ; tips of the claws black ; fore-legs adorned with pitchy 

 marks ; fore-thighs armed with two small black teeth : wings colour- 

 less ; fore-wings tinged with tawny towards the base, adorned towards 

 the tip with seven large dark brown spots, six of these are at the tips 

 of the fore-areolet of the first second and third discoidal areolets, 

 and of the eigth marginal areolet ; the seventh is the largest, occu- 

 pies the tip of the wing, and encloses two round colourless spots ; 

 a very small brown spot at the base of the eighth marginal areolet ; 

 primitive areolet, fore-flaps, and the base of the hind- flaps green ; 

 veins black, pitchy towards the base, where they are tinged with 

 green. Length of the body 15 lines ; of the wings 47 lines. 



a. West Coast of America. Presented by Capt. Kellett and Lieut. 

 Wood. 



4. Zammara angulosa. Fern. 

 Nervus transversus lus subcurvus, valde obliquus, angulum valde 

 obtusum fingens^ 2o plus duplo ejus longitudine divisus ; 2us 

 rectus, obliquus, angulum obtusum fingens , \o quadripartito 

 brevior ; 3m.s subundatus, obliquus, angulum. subacutum Jin- 

 gens ; 4us curvus, obliquus, angulum vix acutum fingens, 3o 

 paullo longior. 



Second marginal areolet about seven-eighths of the length of the 

 first, slanting, forming a very obtuse angle, parted from the second by 

 much more than twice its length ; second straight, slanting, forming 

 an obtuse angle, not one-fourth of the length of the first ; third slightly 

 waved, slanting, forming a very slightly acute angle ; fourth curved, 

 slanting, forming a hardly acute angle, a little longer than the third; 

 fifth straight, slightly slanting, forming an obtuse angle. Body 

 dull tawny, short, broad : head much narrower than the fore-chest, 

 adorned with two black oblique stripes, which being united occupy 



