542 LIST OF HOMOPTEROUS INSECTS. 



20. AcoNOPHORA OBTUSA, Mas. 



Picea ; prothorax nigro marginatus ; pectus^ abdomen et pedes fer- 

 ruginea ; alee anticce picea. 



Pitchy, clothed with short, shining, yellow hairs ; head and 

 fore-chest minutely punctured : fore-chest conical and compressed 

 in front of the head, with a broad black rim or ridge which widens 

 from the base above and below to the tip ; shoulders rounded, not 

 prominent ; hind part convex, not keeled, extending beyond the tip 

 of the abdomen, attenuated and with a middle ridge towards the 

 tip, which is acute: breast, abdomen and legs ferruginous: fore- 

 wings pitchy, slightly rugulose, punctured at the base and along 

 part of the fore border, paler along the hind borders towards the 

 tips ; veins stout ; areolets long and narrow : hind wings lurid. 

 Length of the body 3 lines ; of the wings 6^ lines. 



a. Brazil. 



Genus 18. NESSORHINUS. 



Nessorhinus, Amyot et Serv. Hist. Nat. Hem. 542, 437. Fairm. 



1. Nessorhinus vulpes. 



Nessorhinus vulpes, Amyot et Serv. Hist. Nat. Hem. 542, 1, pi. 12, 



f. 11. Fairm. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 2me Serie, iv. 296, 1. 

 St. Domingo. 



Genus 19. POLYGLYPTA. 

 Polyg^ypta, Biirm. Handh. Ent. ii. 1, 142. Amyot et Serv. Fairm. 



1. POLYGLVPTA COSTATA. 



Polyglypta costata, Burm. Handh. Ent. ii. 1, 142, 1. Silh. Rev. 

 Ent. iv. 177, 1. Fairm. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 2me Serie, iv. 

 296, 1. 



Mexico. 



