234 LIST OF HOMOPTEEOUS INSECTS. 



prominent : fore-chest narrower in front than behind ; sides of the 

 scutcheon straight ; hind-scutcheon narrow above, much widened on 

 each side: scutcheon of the middle-chest adorned with three broad 

 obconical tawny stripes wliose disks are mottled with brown ; excava- 

 tion on the hind border very indistii)ct: abdomen ferruoinous, slightly 

 obconical, not longer than the chest, green for half the length from 

 the base with the exception of a stripe in the middle ■ opercula none ; 

 tymbals adorned with pitchy and whitish stripes ; drums rather small , 

 pale tawny, parted by a moderate interval: legs tawny; tips of the 

 claws black ; fore-thighs adorned with pitchy streaks, armed with 

 two tawny teeth whose tips are black ; wings colourless, narrow, 

 tinged with green at the base of the fore-wings ; fore borders brown ; 

 veins black, green towards the base : flaps colourless. Length of 

 the body 7 lines ; of the wings 20 lines. 



a. Java. From Mr. Argent's collection. 



5. Cephaloxys nutans, Mas. 



Nervus transversus \us fere rectus, erectus, angulum suhohtusum 

 Jingens, 2o plus quadruplb ejus longitudine clivisus ; 2us sub- 



rectus, erectus, angulum ohtusum Jingens^ \o longiur ; 3us 

 fere rectus, obliquus, angulum acutum fingens ; Aus fere rectus, 



angulum fere rectum fingens, subobliquus, 3o vix brevior. 



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

 first : first cross-vein almost straight, upright, forming a very slightly 

 obtuse angle, parted from the second by much more than four times 

 its length ; second nearly straight, upright, forming an obtuse angle, 

 longer than the first ; third nearly straight although very indistinctly 

 waved, slanting, forming an acute angle ; fourth nearly straight, 

 forming an almost right angle, nearly as long as the third and much 

 less slanting ; fifth very slightly curved, upright, forming a right 

 angle. Body pale tawny : head a little narrower than the fore-chest, 

 somewhat pitchy about the eyelets and having on each side a pitchy 

 stripe which proceeds from the base of the feelers along the sides of 

 the eyes ; face conical, very long and prominent like a beak, adorned 

 above with a dark tawny stripe : mouth pale tawny with a black tip, 

 extending a little beyond the base of the fore-hips : eyes prominent : 

 feelers black, tawny at the base : scutcheon of the fore-chest rather 

 long, adorned with six black spots in front, with a black obconical 

 stripe occupying a furrow on each side, and with two pitchy spots 

 on the hind border ; hind-scutcheon narrow above, much broader at 

 the base of the fore-wing where it fi)rms a distinct angle, and ex- 

 tends beyond the scutcheon : middle-chest adorned on each side with 



