238 LIST OF HOMOPTEROUS INSECTS. 



9. Cepha-loxys quadrimacula, Mas. 



Nervus transversus Ins subcurvus, subobliquus, angulum obtii- 

 sum fingens, 2o diiplb ejus longitudine divisiis ; 2us fere 

 rectus, obliquus, angulumperobtusumjingensy \o multo longior ; 

 'dus subundatus, valde obliqmis, angulum acutum fingens ; 

 4us subcurvus, obliquus, angulum suhaciitum fingens. 



Second marginal areolet as lonij^ as the first : first cross-vein 

 slightly curved, slightly slanliug, forming an obtuse angle, parted 

 from the second by full twice its length ; second nearly straight, 

 slanting, forming an extremely obtuse angle, much longer than the 

 first ; third very slightly vvaved, very slanting, forming an acute 

 angle ; fourth slightly curved, slanting, forming a slightly acute 

 angle, shorter than tjie third ; fifth curved, upright, forming a 

 slightly acute angle. Body bright tawny, almost hairless : head 

 black, narrower than the fore-chest, adorned with a large tawny spot 

 on each side at the base of the feelers, with a small tawny spot in 

 front, and with three along the hind border; face prominent, very 

 convex : mouth black, reaching the hind-hips, tawny at the base : 

 feelers black : eyes rather prominent : fore-chest much narrower in 

 front than behind ; scutcheon adorned with a slightly curved black 

 stripe on each side, with two triangular black spots on the fore bor- 

 der, and with three small black spots along the hind border, and it 

 has also a few very indistinct pitchy marks in the disk ; hind-scut- 

 cheon much widened near the base of each fore-wing where it greatly 

 exceeds the breadth of the scutcheon, slightly notched on each side : 

 scutcheon of the middle-chest adorned with four very large black 

 spots ; outer pair obconical, slightly oblique, widened to each other 

 at the base, on the inner side they are slightly excavated by a short 

 very slender oblique tawny strips ; third spot much shorter, and 

 exhibits a tendency to be divided into two U-shaped spots, the fourth 

 is behind the third, and of a quadrate form, and bears a slender 

 cone on its fore border ; hind border not excavated: abdomen ob- 

 conical, longer and narrower than the chest, black above; hind 

 borders of the segments adorned with slender interrupted reddish 

 bauds ; a broad pale tawny band near the tip ; horn pale tawny ; 

 under side pitchy ; hind borders of the segments ferruginous ; tip 

 pale tawny : opercula very small, pale tawny with blackish disks, 

 partly covering the tymbals which are grayish ; drums bright tawny, 

 rather small, not far apart : legs tawny ; hips, middle and hind- 

 thighs and hind-shanks striped with black ; claws ferruginous: fore- 

 thighs black with a tawny spot near the tip, armed with three stout 

 black teeth ; fore-shanks black with a slender tawny baud near the 



