632 LIST OF HOMOPTEROUS INSECTS. 



Genus 41. LYCODERES. 



Centrotus, Fabr., Germ. 



Lycoderes, Germ., Amyot et Serv. Hist. Nat. Hem. 551, 449. Fairm. 



Bocydium, Lesson. 



1. Lycoderes mitratus. 



Lycoderes mitratus, Germ. Silb. Rev. Ent. iii. 311. Fairm. Ann. 



Soc. Ent. Fr. 2me Serie, iv. 523, 1, pi. 3, f. 25. 

 L. Spinolae, Fairm. Guer. Rev. Zool. 1846, 12. 



Var? Mas. 



Piceus ; pectus ferrugineum ; abdomen rufum ; pedes fulvi ; tibice 

 dilatatcB ; alee iiwpidce ; alee anticcB basi et apice rufo-fnscce. 

 Head and fore-chest pitchy: head small, transverse, a little 

 narrower than the fore-cbest between the sbuulders, minutely punc- 

 tured, forrainfr a triangular and shglitly reluse lobe on each side in 

 front ; face conical, much shorter than the binder part of the head : 

 fore-chest very roughly punctured, sligbtly ridged. ; sboulders very 

 obtusely angular, not proniinent; above tliem the fore-cbest is ver- 

 tical and forms a short and very thick pedestal whose diameter on 

 the length of the thorax is full twice that on its breadth ; above it 

 there is a very large transverse thinly reticulated semi-elliptical ex- 

 pansion ; the fore-chest is keeled behind and forms a compressed 

 very deep slightly recurved horn whose hiud part is slender and 

 extends a little beyond the tip of the abdomen : breast ferruginous : 

 abdomen bright red: legs tawny ; tibiae (especially the fore tibire) 

 widened: wings colourless; fore-wings rather broad towards their 

 tips, punctured at the base and along a small part of the fore border, 

 obliquely reddish-brown near one-third of the surface from the base; 

 reddish-brown at their tips, when this hue, coutrary to that at the 

 base, extends inward from the fore border to the hind border, and 

 therel)y the colourless part is almost triangular; veins pitchy; no 

 discoidal areolet. Length of the body 3 lines ; of the wings 7 lines, 



a. Brazil. From M. Parzudaki's collection. 



2. Lycoderes galeritus. 



Lycoderes galeritus, Fairm. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr.2me Serie, iv. 523,2. 

 Bocydium galerilum, Less. III. Zool. pi. 56, f. A. B. C. 



Brazil. 



