48 LIST OF HOMOPTEEOUS INSECTS. 



and the front ; the latter quite flat, a little longer than broad ; face 

 elongate-triangular, slightly convex in the disk. Prothorax curved, 

 more than four times broader than long-, with a black line on each 

 side. Abdomen bright red above. Knees and tarsi black. Fore 

 wings thickly sprinkled with black, except along the costa, where 

 there are five black dots; the sprinkled part contains many dots 

 without black points, and there are a few minute indistinct red dots 

 in the disk near the end of the costa. Hind wings bright rose- 

 colour, with a broad pale brown border, which is divided from 

 the red hue by a whitish line. Length of the body 6 lines; of the 

 wings 16 lines. 

 a. West Africa. From Mr. Turner's collection. 



Genus ENINGIA. 



Caput porvectum, lanceolatum, prothorace pins duplo Ion gilts, 

 supra subsulcatum. Prothorax subcarinatns. Ala? anticse reticu- 

 lata, confertissime venosee et areolatae ; posticae venis areolisque 

 plurimis. 



Head porrect, horizontal, lanceolate, more than twice the 

 length of the prothorax ; border elevated above and beneath ; a 

 very slight longitudinal furrow above. Prothorax with an almost 

 obsolete keel, slightly convex in the middle and concave on each 

 side of the fore border ; its breadth move than thrice its length. 

 Fore wings reticulated with numerous veins and veinlets, which 

 gradually increase in number from the base to the tip. Hind 

 wind's with the reticulations also extending over the whole surface, 

 but less numerous and more irregular. 



Eningia unifascia. 



Mas. Testacea ; caput supra ferrvginenm ; prothorax nigro 

 liquttatiis et unifasciatm ; abdomen svpra nigrum, husi rttfo 

 strigatum, apice testaceum ; aloe lurida? ; anticce ex parte 

 rufescentes, gvttis macvlisave nigris ; posticce dimidio apicali 

 fusco, venis rvfis. 



Male. Testaceous, paler beneath. Head ferruginous above. 

 Prothorax with two black dots. Mesothorax with two black dots on 

 each side, and with a black band which is excavated en the hind 

 side. Al domen black above, with two red streams" on each side of 

 the base, pale testaceous towards the tip, with a lutcous streak on 



