458 LIST OF HOMOPTEROUS INSECTS. 



tevior shanks and feet ferruginous : wings broad : fore-wings grass- 

 green with luteous borders, slightly rounded at the tips, along which 

 there is a row of short brown streaks ; veins while ; longitudinal 

 veins ramified, not numerous ; cross-veins very numerous, irregular; 

 fore border very convex ; no cross-veins along it: hind-wings whitish 

 veins pale green. Length of the body 3i^ lines; of the wings 11 

 lines. 

 a. New Orleans. From M. Salle's collection. 



44. PCECILOPTERA PKASINARIA, MaS. 



Viridis ; caput breve, suhconicum ; abdomen albo-viride ; pedes 

 viridi-fiavi ; alee anticce albo-virides, apice rolundata;, margine 

 postico subtuherculatoe ; aUe posticce alba. 



Body pale green: head short, slightly conical in front; crown 

 extremely short; front forming above an ascending cone, vertical and 

 slightly convex on the fore side, a little broader towards the epistoma, 

 slightly rounded on each side, bordered by a rim, very slightly con- 

 cave where it joins the epistoma, with an indistinct middle ridge 

 extending along the whole length which much exceeds the breadth ; 

 compartment on each side concave, rather small : antennag thick : 

 fore-chest as long as the head, slightly arched, longer in the middle 

 than on each side: middle-chest full thrice the length of the fore- 

 chest : abdomen obconical, whitish-green, much powdered with white, 

 a little longer than the chest; appendages large, curved, one of the 

 lower pairs ferruginous : legs pale yellow, tinged with green : wings 

 broad : fore-wings whitish-green, rounded at the ti])s, dilated and 

 very slightly tuberculate along half the length from the base of the 

 hind border; veins green; longitudinal veins few ; cross-veins irre- 

 gular, very numerous ; fore border extremely convex, along it a row 

 of oblique cross-veins many of which are forked, towards the tiji 

 they are shorter and more irregular: hind-wings while ; veins whitish- 

 green. Length of the body 3^ lines ; of the wings 10 lines. 



a. South Africa. Presented by Dr. A. Smith. 



45. PCECILOPTERA RUFIFASCIA. 



Rufa, viridi-vUtata ; caput perbrtve ; prothorax viridi-fasciatus ; 

 mesothorax carinatus ; pedes virides ; tarsi lutei ; al(B anticce 

 luteo-virides, apice subtruncatce, margine postico tubercidata; ; 

 alee posticce albce. 



Body grass-green : head pale red, very short ; crown very 

 slightly convex in front, shorter in the middle than on each side ; 



