556 LIST OF HOMOPTEEOUS INSECTS. 



men and is attenuated and luteous towards the tip, which is very 

 acute ; a black stripe proceeds from the fore border, widens and in- 

 closes a diamond-shaped spot in front of the first cone, and a 

 smaller spot on each side of it, and a spindle-shaped spot on the 

 curve, and a small spot on each side of the second cone, and is there 

 interruptedly connected with each side border ; three slight ridges 

 on each side : abdomen pitchy : legs tawny : fore-wings black, 

 punctured for more than half the length from the base, tawny to- 

 wards the base and along the hind border, with a very large oblong 

 colourless spot, which extends almost across the wing from the fore 

 border near the tip ; veins pitchy, tawny where the wings are so, 

 yellow in the colourless part ; one discoidal areolet : hind-wings 

 colourless. Length of the body 3| lines ; of the wings 7 lines. 



a, b. Columbia. From Mr. Turner's collection. 



6. Thelia bipuncta, Fem. 



Testacea, Jlavo vittata ; humeri lutei ; carina rufescens ; alee an- 

 ticee testacea, margine postico nigro maculates. 



Testaceous, shining : head transverse, very short, slightly ru- 

 gulose, almost triangular, with a yellow stripe, pubescent in front, 

 much narrower than the fore-chest ; its breadth much more than 

 twice its length : eyes prominent : fore-chest rather thinly punctured, 

 convex and with a yellow stripe in front, very high, almost conical, 

 and with a very deep keel behind the shoulders, which are rectan- 

 gular, prominent and luteous ; keel reddish along its ridge, slightly 

 and transversely rugulose on each side, much attenuated towards 

 the tip, which is very acute, extending far beyond the tip of the ab- 

 domen : fore-wings testaceous, punctured at the base along part of 

 the fore border, with a small black spot on the angle of the hind 

 border ; veins testaceous ; two discoidal areolets : hind-wings paler. 

 Length of the body 4| lines ; of the wings 10 lines. 



a, h. Para. From Mr. Stevens' collection. 



7. Thelia similis. 



Testacea, nigro vittata ; alee anticce suhtestacees, margine postico 

 nigra maculatce. 



Testaceous, shining : head transverse, very short, slightly ru- 

 gulose, almost triangular, with a black stripe, ^pubescent m front, 

 much narrower than the fore-chest ; its breadth much more than 



