90 LIST OF HOMOPTEROUS INSECTS. 



Fawn-colour, sometimes partly tinged with green. Head and 

 thorax tuberculate ; vertex transverse, flat, its borders hardly elevated ; 

 front very oblique, not twice longer than broad, slightly concave on 

 its fore border, with three keels, the lateral pair slightly curved; 

 under side abruptly retracted; face elongate, smooth, convex, not 

 keeled, mostly black. Thorax slightly keeled. Prothorax trans- 

 verse, convex along the fore border. Mesothorax triangular, with 

 an oblique keel on each side. Legs with black lines. Fore wings 

 subfusiform, slightly convex; veins elevated; veinlets very nume- 

 rous; costa slightly excavated near the base. Hind wings blackish, 

 reticulated; veins reddish. Male. — Abdomen with a tubercle on 

 each side at the tip beneath. Length of the body 4 — 4£ lines ; of 

 the wings 8—9 lines. 



a, b North China. From Mr. Fortune's collection. 



* ° ISSUS BRUCHOIDES. 



Cervinus ; caput p'oductum; vertex longissimus, antice obliquus 

 ferrugbieus ; frons elongata, laieribus elevatis, subtus retracta ; 

 fades lanceolata ; oculi magni, ovati ; prothorax subcarinatus ; 

 mesothorax lateribus subreticulatis ; pectus testaceum; alee 

 anticce sat angustce, subfusiformes, inter venas subluberculatce ; 

 posticus obscure cinerete, apices versus subreticulatce, venis 

 nigris. 



Fawn-colour. Head produced much in advance of the eyes; 

 vertex with elevated borders, about thrice or four times longer than 

 broad, linear and horizontal between the eyes, oblique, ferruginous 

 and slightly widening before the eyes; front much longer than 

 broad, with elevated borders, retracted beneath towards the face, 

 which is lanceolate. Eyes large, oval. Prothorax transverse, very 

 short-conical along the fore border, with a slightly middle keel. 

 Mesothorax triangular, very slightly reticulated on each side. 

 Pectus testaceous. Fore wings rather narrow, subfusiform, slightly 

 tuberculate between the veins. Hind wings dark gray, somewhat 

 reticulated towards the tips ; veins black. Length of the body 

 3 lines ; of the wings 6 lines. 



a. Sumatra. From Sir Stamford Raffles' collection. 



