460 LIST OF HOMOPTEROUS INSECTS, 



equal length : hind-wings white. Length of the hody 2^ lines ; of 



the wings 2 lines. 



a. St. John's Bluff, East Florida. Presented by E. Doubleday, Esq. 



47. PCECILOPTERA QUADRATA. 



Viridi-flava ; caput breve viridi subreticulata ; thorax carinatus ; 

 abdomen alho-fiavum ^ cristatiim ; jtedes albo-Jiavi; tibice tarsi- 

 que anteriora ferruginea ; alcB anticcs virides, apice fusco gut- 

 tata, vix rotundatce ; al(B postica albidce. 



Body pale yellow, tinged with green : head short, slightly re- 

 ticulated with green ; crown concealed or forming one segment with 

 the front, a middle ridge aloJig the whole length ; upper part mode- 

 rately long, with slight short ridge and a tubercle on each side ; fore 

 part convex, rounded on each side, bordered by a rim, very concave 

 where it joins the ej>istoiiia, broader than long ; epistoma very slighily 

 convex, with oblique stripes on each side: tip of the mouth brown : 

 eyes very prominent : fore-chest as long as the head, very slightly 

 concave behind, truncate-couioal in front, with a middle ridge, its 

 lengtli on each side full half of that in the middle: middle-chest 

 with a ridge, more than four times the length of the fore-chest, with 

 a rim towards the tip where it is lengthened and pointed : abdomen 

 whitish-yellow, obconical, crested, a little longer than tlie chest : legs 

 yellowish-white ; anterior tibiae and tarsi ferruginous : wings broad: 

 fore-wings green, hardly rounded at the tijis along which there is a 

 row of dark brown linear dots, almost angular at the tips of the hind 

 borders; veins green; longitudinal veins few; cross-veins veiy nu- 

 merous, irregidar, extending over the whole surface ; fore border 

 very convex, without a row of parallel cross-veins : hind-wings 

 whitish. Length of the body 3 lines; of the wings 12 lines, 

 a. Jamaica. From Mr. Gosse's collection. 



48. PCECILOPTERA ACUMINATA. 



Viridi-Jlava ; caput trigonum, acutum, subascendens : mesothorax 

 tricarinalus ; jiedea fluvi ; aUc anlica vlrides, apice truncatcEy 

 manjine poslico tuberculatce ; alee poslicce albidce. 



Body j)ale greenish-yellow : head triangular, pointed, slightly 

 ascending ; crown a little broader than long, bordered by a rim, with 

 a middle ridge ; fnmt flat, widening towards the e]>istoma, slightly 

 rounded on eacli side, bordered by a rim, much longer than broad, 

 very slightly concave where it joins the epistoma, with five lidges, 



