HEMIPTERA, 



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marked with black spots; the forehead yellow, elongated, striped with 

 black, as are the legs. The elytra are straw-coloured and spotted 

 with brown. The wings are transparent, and slightly blackened at 



1. Hypsauchenia balista. 



2. Membracis foliata. 



Fig. 86. 

 3, Centrotus cornutus. 

 4; Umbonia Spinosa. 



S- Bocydium globulare. 

 6. Cyphonia furcata; 



the extremities. This remarkable insect, which is not more than the 

 twelfth of an inch in length, jumps and flies with great ease. 



A small brownish insect, whose strange appearance struck 

 Geoffroy, the historian of the insects of the environs of Paris, may 



