290 LIST OF HOxMOPTEEOUS INSECTS. 



2. PoLYDiCTYA TEicoLOR ? Mas ct Feni. 

 Lystra tricolor? Westw. Arc. Ent. ii. 35, pi. 57, f. 4, 



Rufa^ nigra fasciata viridi varia ; pedes rufi ; alee aniic(B fusccB basi 

 straminece nigro maculatce ; alee posticce rufce apicefusca. 



Body bright red, smooth, shining : head dull tawny, tinged 

 with green, narrower than the thorax ; crown short, somewhat exca- 

 vated, surrounded by a ridge, having a brown spot on each side ; 

 front large, flat, scutcheon-shaped, with large shallow excavations 

 along each side, in the female reticulated with green on the fore 

 border and along each side, which is green ; face and epistoraa 

 black in the male, green with a red disk in the female : mouth tawny, 

 extending a little beyond the hind-hips : fore-chest having in front 

 a black band Avhich is broader in the male than in the female ; scut- 

 cheon of the middle-chest black, excavated and red along the hind 

 border : hind-chest rather large, slightly excavated, with a rim along 

 the hind border, black in the male : abdomen nearly linear, not 

 longer than the chest, dark olive-green towards the base in the male: 

 legs red, furrowed; hind-shanks armed with spines: fore-wings 

 brown, pale straw-colour for near half the length from the base, 

 adorned w^ith six black spats ; three of these form an interrupted 

 band near the base ; the other three are in a transverse line on the 

 middle of the pale part, the middle one is wanting in the left wing 

 of the male ; a straw-coloured spot on the brown part rather beyond 

 the middle of the fore border: hind-wings bright red, brown towards 

 the tips ; veins pale. Length of the body 6 — 8 lines ; of the wings 

 18— 22 lines. 



a. Malabar Coast. Presented by T. Ward, Esq. 



b. North India. From Mr. Warwick's collection. 



3. POLYDICTYA? PUNCTATA. 



Lystra punctata, Signoret, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 2me Serie, viii. pi. 

 2,1. 



Genus 12. POIOCERA. 



Poiocera, De Laporte, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. i. 221. 



Cicada, Fabr. 



Lystra, Fabr., Germar, Perti/, Guerin, IVestivood. 



Fulgora, Olivier. 



Poeocera, Biirmeister, Amyot et Serville, Schaion. 



Cladodipteryx ? Westwood. 



