298 LIST OF HOMOPTEEOUS IKSECTS. 



the hind-hips : shield of the chest adorned with numerous black 

 spots, surrounded by a ridge, and divided by a longitudinal ridge 

 into two compartments ; scutcheon spotted with black, having two 

 curved oblique ridges, which unite on the fore border and form a 

 semicircle : sides of the hind-chest bright red : abdomen short-ellip- 

 tical, bright red, a little longer and broader than the chest, blackish 

 at the base, and having four rows of blackish spots, and near the tip 

 two large black spots ; underside yellow : legs yellow, furrowed, 

 striped with black ; knees bright red ; tips of the feet black ; hind- 

 shanks armed with spines : fore- wings bright red for full two-thirds 

 of the length from the base, colourless from thence to the tips, which 

 are slightly tinged with brown ; a slender curved black band divides 

 the fore part of the red from the colourless region ; longitudinal 

 veins black, strongly marked, including numerous dull green irre- 

 gular cross-veins ; veins of the colourless part bright green, distinct 

 and regular: hind-wings colourless, tinged with pale brown at the 

 tips, bright red towards the base, blackish about the hind angle of 

 the base and on some part of the adjoining hind border; veins fer- 

 ruginous, here and there blackish. Length of the body 5 — 6 lines ; 

 of the wings 14 — 16 lines. 



a, h. ? 



c. ? From Mr. Shuckard's collection. 



32. PoiocERA VENOSA, Mas. 



Fusca^ fulvo guttata ; metathorax niger ; abdomen rufum, maculis 

 nigris quadrivittatnm ; pedes nigrifulvo maculati; alee antioB 

 ftiscte, albido viaculata, alcB posticce cinerece^ basifusco cyaneo- 

 que maculatce. 



Body brown, finely rugulose, adorned with numerous tawny 

 dots : crown of the head very short, surrounded by a ridge which is 

 tawny on the hind border, yellow on the fore border, the latter is 

 slightly convex ; face parted by a distinct suture from the epistoma, 

 having three ridges, the side pair are oblique and very indistinct : 

 mouth black, reaching the hind-hips: shield of the chest with a 

 broad but indistinct cross furrow, and a slight longitudinal ridge, 

 which is continued on the scutcheon : hind-chest black with ferru- 

 ginous transverse ridges : abdomen slightly obconical, not longer 

 than the chest, brilliant red, adorned with four rows of black spots, 

 black at the base and beneath : legs black, furrowed, adorned with 

 yellow spots and with numerous yellow dots ; hind-shanks anned 

 with spines ; hind-feet brown with black tips : fore-wings brown with 

 numerous dingy white spots ; longitudinal veins ferruginous; cross- 



