494 LIST OF HOMOPTEROUS INSECTS. 



parlment and converge to the acute tip of the fore-chest which ex- 

 tends some distance beyond the tip of the abdomen : breast and 

 abdomen black : anterior tibice flat, spindle-shaped ; hind tibiae beset 

 with two rows of stout spines : wings dark brown ; fore-wings punc- 

 tured towards the base. Length of the body 4 lines ; of the wings 

 6^ lines. 



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



42. Enchenopa l^ta, Fem. 



Nigra ; prothorax cornu compresso lanceolato suhascendente ar- 

 matus, pnstice attenuatus gracilis compressus carinatus ; alcB 

 anticce macula magna limpida suhtrigona ornatce. 



Black, not shining : head thickly punctured, transverse, nearly 

 triangular, as broad as the thorax, with a little tubercle on each side 

 in front: eyes prominent: fore-chest roughly punctured, slightly 

 ridged, produced in front of the eyes into a lanceolate, compressed 

 very slightly ascending horn ; this is nearly as long as the rest of 

 the body, slightly nodulose above' and below, keeled above, has a 

 ridge beneath and one on each side, and is deeply excavated above 

 and beneath near the tip which is notched, tinincated and widened; 

 the hind part forms a slender compressed keeled horn which is red 

 beneath, is excavated beneath near the base, extends to half the 

 length of the abdomen, and is attenuated towards the acute tip; it 

 has a slight ridj»e on each side and is apart from the scutellum and 

 the abdomen : fore-wings black, punctured at the base and along 

 part of the fore border, with a very large colourless nearly triangular 

 spot on the fore border near the tip, occupying more than half the 

 breadth ; veins black, tawny in the colourless part ; basal areolets 

 long, the other areolets short, more or less rhomboidal; one discoidal 

 areolei : hind-wings colourless ; veins black : abdomen bright red 

 with a black tip : feet ferrruginous. Length of the body 3f lines ; 

 of the wings 6 lines. 



a — d. Brazil. Presented by John Miers, Esq. 



43. Enchenopa? univittata. 



Merabracis univittata, Harris, Ins. New Engl. 1 80. 

 United States. 



