LIST OF HOMOPTEROUS INSECTS. 503 



Genus 8. OXYRHACHIS. 



Membracis, Fahi\ 

 Centrotus, Fahr. 



Oxjrhachis, Germ., Burm., Amyot et Serv., Fairm. Ann. Soc. Ent. 

 Fr. 2me Serie, iv. 267, 6. 



1. OXYRHACHIS TARANDUS? FetD. 



Oxyrhachis taraiidus ? Germ. Silb. Rev. Ent. iii. 232, 1. Burm. 



Handh. Ent. ii. 1, 133, 1. Amyot et Serv. Hist. Nat Hem. 



536, 1. Fairm. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 2me Serie, 268, 1, pi. 4, 



f. 13. 

 Membracis tarandus, Fabr. Ent. Sysi. Suppl. 514, 23. 

 Centrotus tarandus, Fabr. Syst. Rhyn. 19, 17. 



Picea ; caput ferrugineo marginatum, ; prothoracis carina ferrii- 

 ginea ; cormi posticum apice subtus serratum ; pectus et abdo- 

 men albo pubescentia ; pedes rufi, ; femora supra picea ; tibia; 

 dilatatcB ; alee limpidcB : ala antiae basi piceo-fulvce, margi- 

 nibus posticis fusco maculates. 



Pitchy, clothed with tawny down : head transverse, subquad- 

 rate, flat, slightly impressed, finely punctured, not much broader 

 than long, a little narrower than the fore-chest between the shoulders, 

 ferruginous and undulating along the hind border, truncated and 

 ferruginous in front : fore-chest rather high in front, roughly punc- 

 tured, rising almost vertically from the head, with a very distinct 

 pale ferruginous ridge; shoulders rounded, not prominent; horns 

 above very broad, prismatic, conical, diverging, slightly ascending, 

 very slightly curved downward, with ferruginous edges ; hind side 

 much shorter than either of the other sides ; length of the horns 

 rather more than twice the breadth of the chest between them : hind 

 appendage very long, mostly ferruginous, extending very far beyond 

 the tip of the abdomen, slightly undulating above, along half the 

 length from whence to the tip it is slightly inclined upwards, and 

 has a black serrated keel beneath : breast, abdomen and legs clothed 

 with white down : legs red ; thighs pitchy above ; shanks widened : 

 wings colourless ; fore-wings tawny, punctured and partly pitchy at 

 the base, with a brown spot on the angle of the hind border ; veins 

 thick, red ; four discoidal areolets. Length of the body 4^ lines : 

 of the wings 7^ lines. 



a. North India. From Mr. Warwick's collection. 



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