70 CATALOGUE OF 
Female. Black, elliptical, convex, shining, very finely punctured. 
Head transverse. Eyes slightly prominent. Antenne slender, a little 
more than half the length of the body; first joint very short; second, third 
and fourth yellow at the base; second a little longer than the third and 
than the fourth. Prothorax short, a little narrower in front, with a pale 
testaceous band, which is excavated in front and is very near the hind 
border. Scutellum testaceous at the tip. Legs testaceous, slender, rather 
short; femora with a black band; fore femora slightly incrassated. 
Wings extending to the tip of the abdomen. Corium of the fore wings 
diaphanous, with a testaceous tinge and with a brown apical spot; 
membrane and hind wings pellucid. ” Length of the body 14 line. 
a—l, Madeira. From Mr. Wollaston’s collection. 
South Africa. 
28. Nysius sinotatus, C. H. 554. 
a, Cape. From M. Drégé’s collection. 
29. Nysrus paLLens, C. H. 564. 
a—c. Cape. From M. Drégeé’s collection. 
30. Nystus atBipus, C. H. 555. 
a. Sierra Leone. Presented by the Rey. D. F. Morgan. 
31. Nysius sUBCINCTUS. 
Fem. Piceus; antenne pallide testacee; prothorax sulco transverso 
medio valde determinato, fascia posteriore alba interrupta ; abdominis 
latera testacea ; pedes testacei, femoribus anticis nigris subincrassatis 
apice testaceis ; corium pallide testaceum, nigro immaculatum ; ale 
postice diaphana, lineis clavatis cinerets. 
Female. Piceous, slender, linear. Head short, triangular, broader 
than the fore border of the prothorax. Eyes rather prominent. Antenne 
slender, pale testaceous ; first joint shorter than the head; second much 
longer than the first. Prothorax much narrower in front, with a strongly- 
marked transverse middle furrow, behind which there is an interrupted white 
band. Abdomen testaceous along each side. Legs testaceous, slender ; 
fore femora black, slightly incrassated, testaceous at the tips. Wings 
extending to the tip of the abdomen. Corium of the fore wings pale 
testaceous, with a black apical spot; membrane and hind wings pellucid, 
the latter with cinereous lines, which are dilated into apical triangular 
spots. Length of the body 2 lines. 
More slender than N. Thymi. 
a, Ceylon. Presented by Dr. Thwaites. 
