242 LIST OF HOMOPTEROUS INSECTS. 



minenl: feelers black: fore-chest clothed with short tawny hairs ; 

 scutcheon adorned with a black spot and with four black streaks 

 which occupy the furrows on each side ; hind-scutcheon broad, 

 sliohtly widened, rounded and convex on each side, not excavated : 

 scutcheon of the middle-chest clothed with whitish hairs, adorned 

 with four obcouical tawny stripes which inclose pitchy streaks, the 

 inner pair not half the length of the outer pair ; hind border slightly 

 excavated : abdomen obconical, a little longer than the chest, slightly 

 compressd towards the tip, tawny and clothed with tawny hairs, 

 adorned with large black marks which are clothed with black hairs : 

 legs green, clothed with rather long whitish hairs; hips, thighs and 

 fore-shanks adorned with pitchy marks ; shanks and hind-feet tawny ; 

 fore-feet and middle-feet black : wings colourless ; fore border fer- 

 ruginous; veins green, black towards the tips ; cross-veins from the 

 first to the fourth clouded with brown ; a row of pale brown spots 

 on the tips of the longitudinal veins of the marginal areolets. In 

 the left wing of the insect described the lower vein of the first mar- 

 ginal areolet is divided for a short space and incloses a little narrow 

 areolet. Length of the body 11 lines ; of the wings 42 lines. 



a. Venezuela. From Mr. Dyson's collection. 



5. Carineta trichiosoma, Mas. 



Aervus tran^versus lus suhcurvus, obliquus, angulum ohtusnm fin- 

 gens, 2o fere triplb ejus longitudine divisus ; 2us siibcurvus, 

 obliquus, angulum ohtaswn fin gens, \i longitudine ; Sus sub- 

 undatus, obliquus, angulum acutum fingens ; Aus subundatus, 

 valde obliquiis, angulum valde obtusum fingens, 'do fere duplb 

 longior. 



Second marginal areolet from two-thirds to three-fourths of the 

 length of the first: first cross-vein slightly curved, slanting, forming 

 an obtuse angle, parted from the second by nearly thrice its length ; 

 second slightly curved, slanting, forming an obtuse angle, as long 

 as the first ; third very slightly waved, slanting, forming an acute 

 angle ; fourth very slightly waved, very slanting, forming a very 

 acute angle, nearly twice the length of the third ; fifth slightly 

 curved, upright, forming a slightly obtuse angle. Body tawny, 

 very hairy, especially on the head which is very small, much nar- 

 rower than the fore-chest, and has several black marks on the crown, 

 the two largest of these are on the region of the eyelets ; face promi- 

 nent, very convex, its disk pitchy in front: mouth tawny, black 

 towards the tip, reaching the middle-hips: eyes not prominent: 

 feelers pitchy ^\ilh tawny tips : scutcheon of the fore-chest narrower 

 in front, with six black stripes which are adorned with tawnv net- 



