LIST OF HOMOPTEEOUS INSECTS. 59'; 



4. Cyphonia flay a. 



Combophora flava, Btirm. Silb. Rev. Ent. i. 231, 11. 

 Brazil. 



5. Cyphonia flrcata ? 



Combophora furcata? Burm. Silb. Rev. Ent. i. 231, 10. 



Mas. Nigra, ferrugineo lubei-culata ; prothorax spinis quaf/uor 

 flavis ai-matus^ postic^ nodosus et trifurcatus ; abdomen Jla- 

 vum, subtus apice piceum ; pedes Jlavi ; femora nigra ; alee 

 limpidcB. 



Black, sbinino^, covered with ferruginous pimples which are be- 

 set with white bristles: back ot the fore-chest armed with four lung 

 yellow^ spines which are black and very stout at the base ; hinder 

 appendage as long- as the abdomen, nodose, trifurcate ; the three 

 forks spring from the knobs and are yellow towards the lips ; the 

 middle one is slender and longer than the other two which have 

 large knobs: abdomen yellow, pitchy at the tip beneath: legs yellow: 

 thighs black : wings colourless ; veins yello^v ; two pilchy dots on 

 the veins of the f)re-wings ; three discoidal areolets, one pentagonal, 

 one long and peiiolated, and one oval. Length of the body (inclu- 

 ding the spines) 2 lines ; of the wings 4 lines. 



a. Brazil. Presented by John Miers, Esq. 

 h, c. Brazil. From Mr. Shuckard's collection. 



6. Cyphonia eectispina. 



Cyphonia rectispina, Fairm. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 2me Serie. iv. 

 502, 6. 



Mexico. 



7. Cyphonia iiirta. 



Cyphonia hirta, Fairm. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 2me Serie, iv. 503, 7, 



pi. 7, r. 23. 

 Heteronota hirta. Germ. Silb. Rev. Ent. iii. 255, 2. 



a. Brazil. Presented by John Miers, Esq. 



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