LIST OF HOMOPTEROUS INSECTS. 



Male. Very 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 dols. Piothorax black along the fore border, with a black 

 middle stripe, which is dilated hind ward, and with three black 

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

 where it 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 hind 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 conceals 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 bind border; first 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 11 lines ; of the wings 30 lines. 



a. Bogota. From Mr. Stevens' collection. 



q Genus THOPHA, Cat. Horn. 42. 



Thopha interclusa. 



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

 ruginea, strigis Lateralibus nigris ; prothorax strigis quatuor 

 lateralibus ramosis vittisque duabus intermediis nigris ; meso- 

 thorax vittis quinque gutthque duabus nigris, vitlis lateralibus 

 obconicis ferrugineo marginatis ; abdomen nigrum, seg mentis 

 fuh'o marginatis ; opercula dorsalia maxima, pallide viridia 

 albo tomentosa ; ventralia parva ; alee vitrei, venis viridibus. 



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



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

 face ferruginous, with black streaks on each side. Piothorax 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 borders, the inner pair short. Abdomen 

 black; hind borders of the segments lawny. Dorsal opercula pale 

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

 abdomen ; ventral opercula small. Wings vitreous ; veins pale 



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