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list of homoptebous insects. 671 



12. Triecphoba propinqua. 



Nigro-viridis ; pectus rufum, piceo himaculatum ; abdomen ru- 

 fu7n, apice nigrum; pedes nigri ; alee anticce fuscce luteo 

 bifasciat(P, rufo unimaculata et univittatce. 



Greenish black, shining : head and chest finely punctured : 

 epistoma with distinct parallel transverse furrows on each side 

 of the keel : month red, with a black tip: autennte black : scutcheon 

 with a red rim on each side, tawny at the tip ; breast red, with a 

 large pitchy spot on each side : abdomen red, with a black tip: leo-s 

 black: fore-wings dark brown, with two orange bands, with a red 

 spot near the base of the fore border, and with a red stripe extending 

 from the base along the hind border to the first band, which is 

 oblique; second band upright, dividing the net-work of the wing 

 from the membranous part: hind-wings almost colourless, pale 

 brown at the lips and along the hind border ; veins black. Len^^th 

 of the body 2^ lines ; of the wings 7 lines. 



a. Venezuela. From Mr. Dyson's collection. 



^ 13. TrIECPHORA SCITA. 



Nigra; caput fatmm, nigro maculatum ; thorax Jlavo fasciatus ; 

 pectus rufo-fulvum; abdomen flavum rufo marginatum et 

 fasciatum, apice piceum ; pedes rujr, tibiis anticis tarsisque 

 nigris ; alee anticce fuscce, Jlavo nnimaculata, unifasciatce et 

 univittatce. 



Black, shining : head and chest finely punctured : head yel- 

 low, with a large transverse subquadrate black spot on the front; 

 epistoma with indistinct parallel transverse furrows on each side of 

 the keel, black towards the front: mouth yellow, black towards the 

 tip : antennae yellow, black towards the base: a broad yellow band 

 along the fore border of the chest: breast reddish tawny : abdomen 

 yellow, red along each side and along the hind borders of the seg- 

 ments, pitchy towards the tip : legs red ; tarsi, posterior libi^e to- 

 wards the tips, and fore tibiae black : fore-wings dark brown 

 thickly punctured, with a broad short yellow stripe extending from' 

 the base along the hind boi-der, with a yellow triangular spot ex- 

 tending from the fore border to the disk at one-third of the length 

 and with a broad yellow upright band which divides the reticulations 

 from the membranous part : hind-wings pale brown, almost colour- 

 less beneath the fore border towards the base ; veins black. Leno-th 

 of the body ^\ lines; of the wings 9 lines. 



a — c. Brazil. Presented by John Miers, Esq. 



