74 LIST OF HOMOPTEROUS INSECTS, 



is widened towards the hind border into a diamond-shaped spot which 

 has a black dot on each side ; inner pair slender, short, slightly ob- 

 lique ; outer pair excavated on the inner side in front, forming a 

 ri^bt angle on tbe outer side at the lips ; hind border slightly exca- 

 vated: abdomen ferruginous, almost linear from tbe base to the tip, 

 much longer than tbe chest, adorned with a broad black interrupted 

 band on each segment, and on each side with a broad pale tawny 

 stripe whicb extends along half the length from the base ; hind bor- 

 ders of the segments green ; under side tawny with a pitchy tip ; 

 opercula very small, pale tawny with pitchy borders, partly covering 

 the tymbals, which are whitish with tawny bands: legs green, tinged 

 with tawny ; a pitchy mark on each hip and on the tip of each 

 middle-thigh and hind-thigh, and at the base of each hind-shank, 

 and both at the base and at the tip of each fore-thigh and fore-shank 

 and middle-shank; feet black: wings colourless ; primitive areolet, 

 fore-membrane and the base of the flap pale buff ; veins black, 

 mostly tawny towards the base ; brands black, yellow towards the 

 base; fore border green, ferruginous beyond the brand ; cross-veins 

 from the first to the fourth slightly clouded with brown ; a row of 

 little brown spots on the tips of the longitudinal veins of the sub- 

 marginal areolets ; flaps hardly tinged with brown along the fore 

 border. Length of the body 9 lines ; of the wings 26 lines. 



a, b. ? 



36. DUNDUBIA DIMINUTA, MaS. 



Nervus transversus }us subcurvus, fere erectus, angulum vix ob- 

 tiisum Jin gens, 2o fere quadruplb ejus longiludine divisus ; 2us 

 fere rectus, obliquus, angulum valde obtusum fingens, \i lon- 

 giludine ; 3us subundatus, subobliquus, angulum rectmn Jin- 

 gens ; 4tLS subundatus, subobliquus, angulum subacuium fin- 

 gens, 3i longitudine. 



Second marginal areolet much more than half the length of the 

 first : first cross-vein slightly curved, nearly upright, forming a 

 hardly obtuse angle, parted from the second by nearly four times its 

 length ; second nearly straight, slanting, forming a very obtuse an- 

 gle, as long as the first : third slightly waved, slightly slanting, 

 forming a right angle, joining the second discoidal areolet; fourth 

 very slightly waved, slightly slanting, forming a slightly acute an- 

 gle, joining the base of the sixth marginal areolet, as long as the 

 third ; fifth very slightly curved, upright, forming a right angle. 

 Body tawny, narrow, nearly linear, partly covered with pale shin- 

 ing down : head a little narrower than the fore-chest ; crown adorned 

 with three black stripes, the middle one broad, and including the 



