56 LIST OF HOMOPTEROUS INSECTS. 



16. DUNDUBIA OPALIFERA, Mas. 



Nervus transversus lus curvus, obliquus, angulum valde obtusum 

 Jingens, 2o fere triplb ejus longitudine divisus ; 2us subrectus, 

 obliguus, angulum valde obtusum Jingens , lo multo brevior ; 

 3us subcurvus, subobliquus^ anguhwi fere rectum Jingens ; 4us 

 subcurvus^ obliquus^ angulum fere rectum Jingens ^ 3o paullo 

 brevior . 



Second marginal areolet nearly three-fourths of the length of 

 the first: first cross-vein curved, slanting, forming a very obtuse 

 angle, parted from the second by nearly thrice its length ; second 

 nearly straight, slanting, forming a very obtuse angle, very much 

 shorter than the first ; third very slightly curved, slanting, forming 

 a nearly right angle ; fourth very slightly curved, slightly slanting, 

 forming a nearly right angle, a little shorter than the third ; fifth 

 slightly curved, nearly upright, forming a nearly right angle. In 

 the right wing of the insect described, the fourth cross-vein is 

 shortened by means of a little additional areolet between the third 

 and fourth discoidal areolets. Body black : head a little narrower 

 than the fore-chest, adorned with an irregular tawny border : face 

 convex ; its front and the sides of the breast tawny: mouth tawny 

 with a black tip, reaching nearly to the hind-hips : feelers black, 

 tawny at the base : eyes prominent : scutcheon of the fore-chest 

 adorned with a tawny disk, which has three black stripes on each 

 side; hind-scutcheon tawny with two black spots at the base of each 

 fore-wing, where the border is also black, edged with black, and 

 armed with a small tooth on each side : scutcheon of the middle- 

 chest tawny; its disk black, adorned with two lawny stripes which 

 have between them a double U-shaped mark, and behind them are 

 two short tawny streaks ; the stri])es send out two oblique branches, 

 one linear, the other club-shaped ; hind border slightly excavated : 

 abdomen black, tapering from the base to the tip, brown beneath : 

 opercula pitchy ; drums pointed, black, rather large, not far apart, 

 not more than" half the length of the abdomen : legs tawny ; thighs 

 streaked with idack ; tips of the thighs and of the feet black; fore- 

 thighs armed with three rather long black teeth ; spines of the hind- 

 shanks black : wings colourless, adorned with opaline lustre, tawny 

 along the fore border, pale tawny with pitchy marks at the base ; 

 veins tawny; first and second cross-veins clouded with brown ; fore- 

 flaps brown ; hind-Haps brown at the base. Length of the body 

 15 lines; of the wings 39 lines. 



a. Corea. Presented by Sir E. Belcher. 



