440 LIST OF HOMOPTEEOUS INSECTS. 



4. COLOBESTHES COROMANDELICA. 



Poeciloptera coromanclelica, Spin. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. viii. 440, 15. 

 Cororaandel. 



5. CoLOIiESTHES PUSTULATA. 



Cicada pustiilata, Donovan, Ins. Neiv Holland, pi. 9. 

 New Holland. 



6. CoLOBESTHES ADSCENDENS? 



Flata adsceudens ? Fahr. Syst. Rhyn. 46, 5. 



a. Ashanti. From the Wesleyan Missionary Society's collection. 



7. CoLOBESTHEs coNSPERSA, Mas ct Fein. 



Fulva ; prothorax carinatus ; meso thorax tricar inatus , pedes fulvi ; 

 al(2 anticcs cervince, falcata, nigro consperscB ; alee postica 

 alhtx. 



Body tawny : head narrower than the chest ; crown very short, 

 straight, longer on each side than in the middle ; front conical above ; 

 fure part paler, slightly convex, rounded on each side, not narrower 

 towards the epistoma, bordered by a rim, slightly concave where it 

 joins the epistoma, the latter is lanceolate ; side part slightly con- 

 cave, surrounding the eye and the antenna : fore-chest concave on 

 the hind border, truncate-conical in front, bordered by a shght rim, 

 ami having a middle ridge : middle-chest much more than twice the 

 length of the fore-chest, with three ridges, the side pair slightly 

 curved and inclosing aflat spindle-shaped compartment: abdomen 

 obconical, longer than the chest, powdered with white : legs pale 

 tawny : wings ample : fore-wings pale fawn-colour, sprinkled with 

 black which is chiefly on the cross-veins, convex on the fore border, 

 truncate at a right angle along the tip, concave on the hind border 

 at whose tip they are produced into an acute angle or hook ; veins 

 pale tawny; longitudinal veins and cross-veins very numerous; along 

 the fore border a row of oblique rather long cross-veins which are 

 mostly forked and are shorter towards the tip : hind-wings milk 

 white. Length of the body 5 — 7 lines; of the wings 18 — 22 lines 



a. East India. From Archdeacon Clerk's collection. 



h. Assam. From Mr. Warwick's collection. 



c. Silhet. From the Rev. J. Stainforlh's collection. 



