LIST OF HOMOPTEROUS INSECTS. fil 



eacli side. Mesothorax with a pale fore spot, which contains two 

 Mack streaks, and has a black spot on each side, beyond which 

 there are some blackish marks. Abdomen with two short blackish 

 stripes; tip black beneath. Wings vitreous, with a very slight 

 lurid tinge and with brown lips ; veins black. Fore wings with a 

 blackish subcostal mark at three-fourths of the length ; veins 

 towards the base and stigma lurid. Length of the body 6 lines ; of 

 the wings 17 lines. 



a. Ceram. From Madame Ida Pfeiffer's collection. 



Genus DICTYOPHORA, Cat. Horn. p. 307. 



Mexico. 



DiCTYOPHORA DIOXYS. 



Fcem. Viridis ; caput textaceum, verticis carina lateribvsqtie 

 viridibus ; cornu conician, vertice longim, subtus tricari- 

 natum : fades lancenlata. uni carina ta : prothorax tricari- 



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nalus, antice cnmcus, margme exteriore angmnin acutnm 

 jingente ; mesothorax carinis tribus parallelis ; al(S vitrea, 

 venis nigris basi viridibus; anticcB stigmate viridi, venulis 

 iransversis in ordine collocatis, stigmate viridi ; posticce vemtlis 

 paucis. 



Female. Green. Head testaceous ; vertex not longer than 

 broad, with the keel and the slightly elevated borders green. Pro- 

 tuberance conical, quadrilateral, longer than the vertex, with an 

 angular keel on each side; under side with three \ieeh, the lateral 

 pair continued along the front, which is long and linear; face 

 lanceolate, with one keel. Proihorax above short, with three keels, 

 conical in front, acutely angular on the hind border; a keel on each 

 side. Mesothorax with three parallel keels. Wings vitreous; veins 

 black, green towards the base. Fore wings with a green stigma, 

 containing three veinlets ; transverse veinlels forming three nearly 

 regular bands ; veins forked at the lijts. Hind winijs with a few 

 veinlels. Length of the body 4 lines; of the wings 10 lines. 



a. Mexico. From M. Salle's collection. 



