LTST OF HOMOPTEROUS INSECTS. O 



Male. Veiy bright emerald-green. Head black in front, and 

 with an irregular black band, which contains an oblique green 

 streak on each side, and two intermediate green dots ; some black 

 hinder dots. Prothorax bhick along the foie border, with a black 

 middle stripe, which is dilated hindward, and with three black 

 streaks on each side; border only slightly dilated on each side, 

 where il forms a very obtuse angle, which is black, and has a black 

 dot near it. Mesothorax with four black stripes, the middle pair 

 oblanceolate, the outer pair excavated. Abdomen black, with 

 a green band on the nmd border of each segment; basal segments 

 partly testaceous ; under side with a row of white dots on each 

 side. Wings vitreous ; veins black, red towards the base. Fore 

 wings with a black spot on the front areolet, and with a black 

 obli([ue irregular band which cuncc^als the transverse veins ; a black 

 apical spot and a biack dot at the tip of the second marginal vein, 

 and a black spot on the hind border; fir>t transverse vein very ob- 

 lique, parted by more than twice its length from the second, which 

 is also very oblique, but not in the usual direction. Length of the 

 body II lines ; of the wmgs 30 lines. 



a, Bojjota. From Mr. Stevens' collection. 



Genus THOPHA, Cat. Horn. 42. 



Thopha inteeclusa. 



Mas. Testacea, viridi varia ; caput nigro bifasciatum, facie fer- 

 ruginea, strigis lateralibus nigris ; prothorax strigis quatuor 

 laleralibus ramosis vUlisque duabus inlerinediis nigris ; meso- 

 thorax vittis quinqae guLtisque duabus nigris, vitlis lateralibus 

 obconicis ferrugineo marginatis ; abdomen nigrum, segmentis 

 fulvo marginatis; opercula dorsalia maxima, pallide viridia 

 albo tomentosa ; ventralia parva ; alee vitrece, vents viridibus. 



Thopha, n. s., List Homopt. pi. 1, f. 6. 



Male. Testaceous, partly green. Head with two black bands; 

 face ferruginous, with biack streaks on each side. Prothorax with 

 two black stripes, and on each side with two ramose black streaks. 

 Mesothorax with five black stripes ; the middle one attenuated in 

 front, with a black spot on each side behind; the other four obco- 

 nical, with ferruginous bordeis, the inner pidr short. Abdomen 

 black; hind borders of the segments tawny. Dorsal opeicula pale 

 green, with white tomentum, very large, covering the sides of ihe 

 abdomen ; ventral opercula small. Wings vitreous ; veins pale 



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