628 LIST OF HOMOPTEKOUS INSECTS. 



67. Centrotus finitimus, Fern. 



Niger, latus ; cornua lateralia brevissima ; cornu posticum abdo- 

 minis dimidii longitudine ; abdomen supra cinereum ; tarsi 

 picei ; alee anticce luridce, albo faseiata, basi nigra. 



Black, shining, punctured, broad, clothed with tawny hairs : 

 head and fore-chest roughly punctured : head short, transversely 

 subfusiform, narrower than the fure-chest, slightly retuse along the 

 fore border ; face short, broad, truncate in front, truncate-obconical 

 behind, as long as the head behind it: fore-chest high, indistinctly 

 ridged, rising vertically from the head ; shoulders very obtusely an- 

 gular, slightly prominent ; horns above very short, conical, prisma- 

 tic, directly diverging, very slightly inclined upward, in length 

 hardly more than one-sixth of the breadth of the chest between 

 them ; hind side not more than half the breadth of either of the 

 other sides ; hind appendage stout, not more than half the length of 

 the abdomen, tapering from the base to the tip, which is acute : 

 back of the abdomen gray, dull, with black punctures : tarsi pitchy : 

 wings lurid; fore-wings black and punctured at the base, adjoining 

 which there is a white band ; veins ferruginous, partly pitchy, yel- 

 low in the pale part ; two discoidal areolets. Length of the body 

 3 lines ; of the wings 7 lines. 



a. Hong Kong. Presented by J. C. Bowring, Esq. 



Group 2. — Fairm. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 2me Serie, iv. 518,30. 



68. Centrotds australis. 



Centrotus australis, Fairm. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 2me Serie, iv. 

 518, 30. 



New Holland. 



69. Centrotus subspinosus. 



Centrotus subspinosus, Spinola, MSS. Fairm. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 

 2me Serie, iv. 519, 31. 



Mexico. 



