4 LIST OF HOMOPTEROUS INSECTS. 



verse marginal veinlets. Length of the body 11 lines ; of the wings 

 30 lines. 



rt, h. St. Domingo. From Mr. Tweedie's collection. 



South America. 

 Zammara nigriplaga. 

 Mas. Picea, siibtus testacea aut viridis ; caput lituris quatuor 

 anticis margineque testaceis ; prothorax lituris dwibus obli- 

 qiiis anticis testaceis unaque postica viridi, hujus disco nigro^ 

 margine viridi ; mesothorax vittis quatuor testaceo-viridibus ; 

 abdomen maculis duabus testaceo-viridibus, inarginibus posti- 

 cis operculisque viridibus ; alee vitrecs maculis strigisqiie 

 plurimis nigro-fuscis. 



Male. Piceous, testaceous or green beneath. Head with a 

 testaceous border, and with four testaceous marks in front of 

 the ocelli. Prothorax with two oblique testaceous marks in front, 

 and with a transverse green hindward mark, which has a black 

 disk ; border green, with a black mark in the middle ; sides mode- 

 rately dilated, forming a right angle, in front of which there is 

 a large black spot. Mesothorax with four testaceous green stripes, 

 the middle pair slender and interrupted ; hind ridges bright green. 

 Abdomen slightly covered with pale yellow silky pubescence, with a 

 testaceous-green spot on each side; hind borders of the segments 

 and opercula green. Wings vitreous ; veins mostly black. Fore 

 wings with a lurid tinge along the interior border towards the base ; 

 transverse veins and forks of most of the longitudinal veins broadly 

 bordered with brown ; marginal veins with brown streaks which ex- 

 tend to the border, and are much dilated at each end. Hind wings 

 clouded with blackish brown on the marginal transverse veinlets at 

 the tips and along the adjoining part of the border ; transverse 

 veins mostly clouded with blackish brown. Length of the body 12 

 lines ; of the wings 42 lines. 



a. South America. From Mr. Purdie's collection. 



Zammara calocuroma. 



Mas. Lcrte smaragdina ; caput facie fasciaque an gulata et gut- 

 tata nigris ; prothorax vitta strigisque sex nigris : mesothorax 

 nigro quadrivittatus ; abdomen nigrum, basi testaceo varium, 

 segmentis viridi marginatis, guttis ventralibus lateralibus 

 albis ; alee vitrea^ fascia maculisque nigris. 



