406 LIST OF HOMOPTEROUS INSECTS. 



along the tip near the fore border ; fourth on the tip near the hind 

 border, irregular, and almost divided into four little spots ; veii:s dark 

 brown, much ramified in the disk, extremely numerous towards the 

 tips : fore border dilated, convex, along it a row of oblique parallel 

 cross-veins. Length of the body 4 lines ; of the wings 12 lines. 



a. Para. From Mr. Stevens' collection. 



6. Flatoides speculum, Fem. 



Niger; frons carinatus ; inesothorax tricar inatus ; pedes ferru- 

 ginei ; alcB fuscte, amplce ; alcB anticce maculis quinque lim- 

 pidis ornatcB ; alee posticce pallidiores, guttis sublimpidis 

 ornatce. 

 Body black : head as broad as the chest: crown surrounded by 

 a rim, very concave on the hind border, straight in front ; its length 

 nut one-eighth of its breadth ; front broad, rounded but not broader 

 towards the epistoma, slightly concave at the junction, surrounded 

 by a rim and having a slight middle ridge which hardly extends 

 beyond half the length from the crown, rather broader than long ; 

 epistoma triangular, with a middle ridge : fore-chest slightly arched, 

 with a middle ridge, about twice the length of the crown : middle- 

 chest full four times the length of the fore-thest, with three ridges, 

 the side pair curved and united in front: abdomen obconical, not 

 longer than the chest : legs ferruginous: wings brown, ample ; fore- 

 wings adorned with five colourless spots ; two in the disk ; one near 

 them on the fore border, and two along the tip ; veins brown, whitish 

 on the colourless parts ; longitudinal veins very numerous but hardly 

 ramified ; cross-veins few ; fore border dilated towards the base where 

 there is a row of oblique parallel cross-veins : hind-wings paler than 

 the fore-wings, with many almost colourless dots. Length of the 

 body 4 lines ; of the wings 12 lines. 

 a. Philippine Islands. From Mr. Cuming's collection. 



7. Flatoides tenebeosls, Mas et Fem. 



Niger; frons et epistoma carinata ; prothorax carinaius ; mesa- 

 thorax tricarinatus ; abdomen ferrugineum ; pedes ferruginei ; 

 alee nigro-fuscce^ ampLe, apice guttis albis fasciata ; alee an- 

 ticce maculis sex limpidis ornata. 

 Body black : head as broad as the chest: crown surrounded by 

 a rim, slightly concave on the hind border, straight in front ; its 

 length not one-eighth of its breadth ; front very broad, rounded on 



