420 LIST OF HOMOPTEROUS INSECTS. 



28. Flatoides quadeatus, Mas. 



Fulvus ; vertex carinatm, margine postico elevato ; frons pallidiore 

 varius, carinatus ; epistoma vitta fasciisque ohliquis pallidis ; 

 prothorax fusco guttatus ; mesothorax non carinatus, apice 

 niger ; metathorax et pectus alhida ; ahdomen apice alhidum; 

 pedes fulvi ; alee anticce ampke, albidce, fulvo varies, apice ob- 

 lique fruncatce, fusco guttata, margine postico apicem verstts 

 fusco maculatce : al(E posticce alhidce, iridescentes. 



Body tawny : head a little narrower than the chest ; crown 

 extremely short and apparently united to the front, having a middle 

 riri<,'-e and along the hind border a cross ridge ; front mottled with 

 paler colour, flat, having a slight rira along each side where it is 

 hardly rounded, straight where it joins the epistoma, with a slight 

 middle ridge which is continued from the crown, and disappears in 

 the disk ; epistoma lanceolate, with a pale middle stripe, from whence 

 oblique bands recede to each side: fore-chest concave along the hind 

 border, more convex in front, adorned with numerous brown dots : 

 middle-chest flat on the disk of the hind part, not keeled ; tip black : 

 hind-chest and breast whitish : abdomen obconical, a little longer 

 than the chest ; plates at the tip whitish : legs pale tawny : wings 

 •ample : fore-wings dingy white, partly tawny, truncate at the tips or 

 having an inward curve towards the hind border, adorned with nu- 

 merous little brown dots which are mostly towards the fore border, 

 and v\ith a brown spot which is near the lip of the hind border ; 

 veins whitish, darker when the wings are so; longitudinal veins 

 very numerous; cross-veins numerous in the disk ; fore border hardly 

 convex, along it a row of stout slightly oblique parallel cross-veins: 

 hind-wings whitish, iridiscent ; veins pale tawny. Length of the 

 body 3 lines ; of the wings 12 lines. 



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



29. Flatoides Cixii, Fem. 



Niger ; frons fulvus, tricarinatus, nigra fasciatus et maculatus ; 

 prothorax fulvo varius ; mesothorax ferrugineo varius, bicari- 

 naius, ad apicem cristatus ; abdomen basi subtus fulvum ; 

 pedes fulvi ; alie anticce fuscce, apice et ad costam limpidce 

 fasciis guttisque fuscis ; alee posticce limpidcc. 



Body black : head a little narrower than the chest ; crown very 

 short, surrounded by a rim ; front tawny, with a broad black band 

 next the crown and a few small black spots towards the epistoma. 



