:^S LIST OF HOMOPTEROLS INSECTS. 



tuse angle, much longer than ibe first : third slightly curved, nearly 

 -.priLihi, forming a right angle: fourth slightly waved, slanting, 

 t jrming a slightly acute angle, longer than the third : fifth curved, 

 nearly upright, forming a harily acute angle. Length of the body 

 II lines ; of the wing> 32 lines. 



a. Port Essinsrton. From Mr. Gould's collection. 



31. FiDICINA INTERN ATA, MaS. 



Xerrus transrersus Ins suhcurvus, valde obliquiis, angulnm valde 

 ohlusinn Jingem, '2o plus triplb ejus lonijitudine dirisus ; 2us 

 subcurvui, anguhim perobtusum fingens ; \o longior et obli- 

 quior ; 3us subcurnis, subobliquus, aiigulum rectum Jingens ; 

 4us subundatus, obliquus, anguhim acutum Jingens, 3o rnulto 

 longior. 



Second marginal areolet a little shorter than the first : firet cross- 

 vein very sn2:hily curved, very slanting, forming a very obtuse an- 

 gle, parted from the second by much more than thrice its length ; 

 second very slightly curved, forming an extremely obtuse angle, 

 longer and more slanting than the first ; third slightly curved, slightly 

 slanting, formiog a right angle, not joining the fourth marginal 

 areolet as is usual, but the second discoidal areolet ; fourth slightly 

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

 third : fifth curved, nearly upright, forming a slightly acute angle. 

 Body tawny, almost hairless : head a little broader than the fore- 

 chest ; a short blact band across the crown, sending forth two short 

 branches in front, and having behind it Two short branches between 

 vshich are two semicircles : a black stripe half encircling each eye ; 

 face prominent, very convex, adorned with two broad black stripes, 

 between which above there is a slender black band : mouth tawny 

 with a black tip, reaching the middle-hips: eyes very prominent: 

 feelers Idack, tawny at the base : scutcheon of the fore-chest adorned 



■ ith two black dots in the middle of the hind border, and with pitchy 

 v.ots in the spaces between the furrows which are black : hind-scut- 

 eiieon broad, forming a very obtuse angle near the base of the fore- 

 vving, slightly excavated on each side, widened again towards the 

 fore border: scutcheon of the middle-chest adorned with four black 

 stripes ; the middle pair triangular, slightly excavated, much shorter 

 than the cuter pair which are slightly oblique, much excavated and 

 somewhat interrupted ; a horse-shoe shaped black mark beyond the 

 middle; excavation of the hind border slight: abdomen ubconical, 

 very little longer than the chest ; a black, more or less interrupted and 



xcuvated band on the fore border of each segment : a black shining 



