82 LIST OF HOMOPTEROUS INSECTS. 



as the first; third waved, slanting, forming an acute angle ; fourth 

 waved, slanting, fonning an acute angle, much longer than the 

 third ; fifth curved, nearly upright, forming an almost right angle. 

 Body pitchy, short, broad, very hairy : head almost black about the 

 eyelets ; face very slightly convex, not at all prominent : mouth 

 pitchy, paler at the base, hardly reaching beyond the middle-shanks : 

 eyes prominent : feelers black : fore -chest very little broader than the 

 head ; scutcheon slightly convex on each side with the exception of a 

 very slight excavation : a black oblique stripe on each side of the scut- 

 cheon of the middle-chest, whose hind border has a moderately deep 

 excavation : abdomen almost black, slightly obconical, rather com- 

 pressed at the tip, not longer nor broader than the chest : legs dark 

 tawny, hairy ; tips of the claws black ; fore-thighs armed with two 

 stout tawny teeth : wings slightly tinged with brown, dark brown at 

 the base ; veins very dark green, pitchy at the base and along the 

 fore border; flaps brown at the base. Length of the body 18 lines ; 

 of the wings 56 lines. 



a. Mexico. From M. Hartweo^'s collection. 



7. FiDiciNA Bubo, Mas et Fem. 



Nervus transversiis lus subundatus, suhohliquus, anffulum rix dis- 

 tinctum fingens, 2o plus triplo ejus longitudine divisus ^ 2us 

 subundatus, valde obliquus, angulum perobtusum fingens, \i 

 longitudine ; 3it9 undatus^ subobliquus, angulum vix acutum 

 fingens ; Aus undatus, obliquus, angulum subacuLum Jingens, 

 So longior. 



Second marginal areolet nearly five-sixths of the length of the 

 first: first cross-vein very slightly waved, very slanting, forming an 

 extremely slight angle, parted from the second by more than thrice 

 its length ; second very slightly waved, very slanting, forming an 

 extremely obtuse angle, as long as the first ; third waved, slightly 

 slanting, forming a hardly acute angle ; fourth waved, slanting, form- 

 ing a slightly acute angle, longer than the third ; fifth curved, up- 

 right, formins: a right angle. 



Male. — Body black, short, broad, shining, partly clothed with 

 tawny down which forms patches on the chest : head as broad as 

 the fore-chest, adorned in front with five tawny spots, the largest on 

 tbe crown : mouth and feelers black : eyes prominent : fore chest 

 with two dark tawny spots near the hind border of the scutcheon ; 

 its sides forming very obtuse angles at the base of the fore-wings, 

 and having a very slight excavation at half the length from thence 

 to the fore border : hind-scutcheon rather broad, its hind border dark 



