678 LIST OF HOMOPTEROUS INSECTS. 



along tlie keel, piceous, and with distinct parallel cross ridges on 

 each side : mouth ferruginous, with a black tip : antennae pitchy : 

 fore-chest ferruginous along the fore border, having on each side a 

 tawny stripe, which is dilated in front ; tip and scutcheon dull 

 tawny : breast tawny about the hips : legs pitchy ; thighs beneath 

 and hips tawny ; hind-shanks tawny, with pitchy tips : fore-wings 

 thickly punctured, adorned with five pale red stripes, which accom- 

 pany the longitudinal veins and spread over nearly the whole 

 breadth at the base : hind-wings brown ; veins black. Length of 

 the body 4^ lines ; of the wings 12 lines. 



a. Venezuela. From Mr. Stevens' collection. 



" 14. MONECPHORA RUBICUNDA. 



Fusco-testacea ; caput fiisco quadrimaculatum ; scutellum, abdo- 

 men et pedes rufa; alee anticeefuscce, had rufoe rufoque bifas- 

 ciata. 



Brownish testaceous, shining: head and fore-chest finely punc- 

 tured : head above depressed, with a brown spot on each side 

 between the eyes, and two in front of the eyelets; face veiy convex, 

 clothed with short black hairs ; its keel very slight ; the parallel 

 cross-furrows on each side indistinct; scutcheon and abdomen 

 bright red ; the latter tawny on each side at the tip: legs bright red ; 

 fore-wings brown, bright red at the base, near which the disk is 

 somewhat tawny ; two pale red slightly zigzag bands, one at one- 

 third, the other at Iwo-thirds of the length of the wing : hind-wings 

 slightly gray, pale brown at the tips and along the hind-border 

 Length of the body 3^ — 4 lines; of the wings 10 — 11 lines. 



a, b. Brazil. Presented by John Miers, Esq. 



15. MONECPHOEA CROCEA. 



Lutea ; abdomen basi, pectus et pedes fulva ; femora antica nigra 

 vittata ; al(B antic ce fiLSCce fulvo tinivittatcB luteo bifasciatcs. 



Luteous, shining : head and chest finely punctured : head 

 above concave on each side ; face very convex, slightly compressed, 

 with a row of indistinct parallel sliy^htly oblique cross ridges on each 

 side of the keel : tip of the mouth black : abdomen at the base, 

 breast, and legs tawny ; fore-thighs striped with black ; tips of the 

 tarsi black : fore-wings brown, with two broad luteous bands, whose 

 edges are whitish ; a short tawny stripe along the fore border from 



