618 LIST OF HOMOPTEROUS INSECTS. 



49. Centrotus aurifascia, Mas et Fera. 



Ater ,' prothorax antic e fiavo fas ciatus, postice Jlavo hivittatus ; fem. 

 abdomen basi ferruginewn, siibtus fiavo bivittatum ; pedes fer- 

 ruginei ; femora picea; tibicB intermedia flavce ; tibice posticce 

 apicejiavcB ; alee anticcB fusae, apicibus marginibusque posticis 

 pallidiores, costce basi limpido maculata. 



Deep black, shining : head transverse, smooth, a little narrower 

 than the fore-chest between the shoulders, slightly impressed at the 

 base of the face, hardly retuse along the fore border; face heart- 

 shaped, prominent, nearly as long as the hinder part of the head : 

 fore-chest convex, roughly punctured, rather shallow, slightly in- 

 clined backward and with a bright yellow arched band above the 

 head ; shoulders angular, hardly prominent ; horns above them 

 rather long, prismatic, ascending, diverging, very slightly curved 

 backward, tapering from the base to the tips which are acute ; their 

 length rather exceeding the breadth of the chest between them ; 

 hind appendage rather flat, slightly keeled, not nearly extending to 

 the tip of the abdomen, tapering from the base to the tip which is 

 very slender, with a bright yellow stripe extending from the middle 

 of each side to the base of the shoulder-horn : a stripe of pale yellow 

 down on each side of the breast, and a bright yellow stripe on each 

 side beneath the abdomen of the female which is ferruginous towards 

 the base: legs ferruginous ; thighs pitchy; middle-shanks yellow ; 

 hind-shanks yellow towards their tips : fore-wings dark brown, much 

 paler towards the tips and along part of the hind border, with a 

 colourless spot on the fore border near the base ; veins pitchy, pale 

 yellow on the colourless part : hind-wings paler. Length of the 

 body 2i — 3 lines ; of the wings 5—6 lines, 



a — d. Jamaica. From Mr, Gosse's collection. 



50. Centrotus platycerus, Fem. 



Ater; eornua apice ferruginea ; abdomen subtiLs flavum^ apice 

 piceum ; pedes picei ; genua ferruginea ; al(B anticce subfuscce^ 

 basi nigra, casta basifiavo maculata : alee postica sublimpida. 



Deep black, shining : head transverse, finely and thinly punc- 

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

 indistinctly ridged, very slightly retuse in front ; face heart-shaped, 

 prominent, ridged, a little shorter than the hind part of the head ; 

 fore-chest convex, moderately deep, indistinctly ridged, roughly 



