LIST OF HOMOPTEUOUS INSECTS. 19 



FlDICINA UMBRILINEA. 



Mas. Testacea, viridi varia ; caput fascia, vitta anlica maculis- 

 que sublus nigris ; prothorax fascia postica nigra ; abdomen 

 vitlis qualuor maculisque duabus nigris, viltis interioribus ab- 

 breviatis, exterior ibus nonnunquam obsoletis ; abdomen nigrum, 

 segmentis rufo marginatis ; ala? vitrece, basi nigra 3 ; antica 

 venis transversis et marginalibus venulisque transversis margi- 

 nalibus fusco nebulosis ; postica margine exteriore plicaque 

 fusco nebulosis. J-- 



Male. Testaceous, partly greenish. Head with an irregular 

 black band ; some black spots on each side beneath ; face with 

 a black stripe. Prothorax with a slender black band behind. 

 Mesothorax with four black stripes ; a black spot behind the inner 

 pair, which are short ; the outer pair occasionally obsolete. Abdo- 

 men black ; hind borders of the segments red. Wings vitreous, 

 black at the base; veins tawny, darker towards the tips. Fore 

 wings with the transverse veins, transverse marginal veinlets and 

 marginal veins clouded with brown ; first transverse vein much 

 shorter than the second ; third shorter than the fourth. Hind 

 wings clouded with brown along the exterior border and on the 

 fold. Length of the body 15 — 16 lines; of the wings 46 — 52 

 lines. 



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V FlDICINA FIGURATA. 



Ftem. Nigra, subtus fulva ; caput maculis duabus lineaque an~ 

 tica fulvis ; prothorax rufescens, nigro lineatus, vitta dupli- 

 cata margineque fulvis ; mesothorax vittis quatuor obliquisj 

 strigis duabus, lateribus carinisque posticis fulvis ; pedes 

 fulvi ; ala? vitrea ; anticce angustce, acuminata, basi testacece, 

 venis la et 2a transversis subarcuatis nigro nebulosis. 



Female. Black, mostly tawny beneath. Head with a large 

 tawny spot on each side in front between the eyes; face with 

 a tawny middle line, and with tawny ridges on each side. Protho- 

 rax reddish, black in front and behind, with a double tawny stripe ; 

 border tawny, with a black streak on each side. Mesothorax with 

 four oblique tawny stripes; the middle pair recurved inward; the 

 lateral pair enclosed at each of their tips by a lateral tawny streak ; 

 sides and hind ridges tawny. Legs tawny. Wings vitreous. 



