498 LIST OF HOMOPTEROUS INSECTS. 



7. Sphongophorus spatltlatus. 



Sphongophonis spatulatus, Fairm. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 2me Serie, 

 iv. 262, 7, pi. 4, f. 3. 



Brazil. 



8. Sphongophorus biclavatus. 



Sphongophorus biclavatus, Fairm. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 2me Serie, 



iv. 262, 8, pi. 4, f. 4. 

 Centrotus biclavatus, Westw. Dune. Nat. Lihr. Ent. i. 286, pi. 25, 



f. 3. 



Brazil. 



9. Sphongophorus undulatus, Mas. 



Luridus ; capitis discus piceus ; prothoracis cornu posticum un- 

 dulatum, ascendens, piceo varium, apice truncatum, cornu 

 inferius furcatum ; furca superior buUifera ; furca inferior 

 lutea, compressa ; tibia anticcB latissimcB ad discos picea ; 

 alee posticcB suhlimpida. 



Body lurid : head aiid fore-chest coarsely punctured : disk of 

 the head pitchy ; front transverse, not extending beyond the eyes, 

 almost straight where it joins the epistoma, its breadth nearly twice 

 its length : epistoma short-conical, hardly longer than broad, a little 

 longer than the front : fore-chest divided into two parts ; the upper 

 part more than twice the length of the body from the head to the 

 tip of the abdomen, quadrilateral, ascending obliquely backward, 

 forming three curves, thicker in the middle and at the tip which is 

 truncate and concave, and whose disk like that of each side is 

 pitchy ; the lower part is forked ; the upper fork ascends almost 

 perpendicularly and forms two bulbs, and ends in a small truncate 

 tip which touches the second curve of the upper part ; the lower 

 fork is luteous, compressed, half the length of the upper fork, hori- 

 zontal and concave beneath, ascending slightly above towards the 

 tip which is obliquely truncated : legs lurid ; shanks very broad, 

 especially the fore-shanks which are almost oval ; their disks pitchy : 

 fore-wings lurid, punctured towards the base and along the fore 

 border : hind wings almost colourless. Length of the body with 

 the fore-chest 4^ lines ; of the wings 5 lines. 



a. Para. From jNIr. Stevens' collection. 



