712 LIST OF HOMOPTEROUS INSECTS. 



pitchy : fore-winp:s brown, covered with tawny down, partly tawny 

 near the hind border, and with two tawny spots near the tip of the 

 fore border; one large, the other small: hind-wings almost colour- 

 less ; veins black, tawny at the base. Length of the body 3^ lines ; 

 of the wings 8 lines. 



a. North India. From Mr. Warwick's collection. 



b. North Bengal. From Miss Campbell's collection. 



5 Var. /3. A tawny, oblique stripe at one-third of the length of 

 each fore- wing. 



20. Ptyelus ceibratus. 



Fulvus, flavo vittatus ; pectus piceo maculatum; abdomen piceum, 

 fulvo fasciatum ; pedes picei,femorihus subtus, tarsisque Jia- 

 vis ; alee anticce piceo pvnctatce. 



Tawny : head and chest thickly and roughly punctured, with an 

 interrupted yellow stripe ; punctures pitchy, as are also here and 

 there the spaces between them : head flat, almost conical in front ; 

 its length more than one-fourth of its breadth ; hind border forming 

 a very obtuse angle ; face very convex, almost oval, having on each side 

 about fifteen oblique cross ridges, with punctured spaces between them ; 

 epistoma slightly keeled : mouth pitchy, reaching the hind hips, lu- 

 teous towards the base : feelers pitchy, with tawny tips : chest very 

 slightly convex, with an indistinct cross furrow: breast with some 

 pitchy spots: abdomen pitchy, excepting the hind borders of the 

 segments : legs pitchy ; thighs yellow beneath ; feet yellow, with 

 pitchy tips: fore-wings convex along the fore border, conical to- 

 wards the tips, very thickly covered with pitchy punctures ; spaces 

 between the punctures here and there pitchy ; veins pitchy, yellow 

 in some parts : hind-wings grayish ; veins ferruginous. Length of 

 the body 4 lines ; of the wings 9i lines. 



a. United States. Presented by E. Doubleday, Esq. 



o 21. Ptyelus guttifer. 



Luridus^subtusjlavus; caput nigro biguttatum ; abdomen luteum ; 

 pedes Jiavi ; alee anticce ferruginece, albo vittata, nigro-bigut- 

 tat(B. 



Lurid: head and chest flat, slightly shining, closely and mi- 

 nutely punctured, thickly covered with tawny down : head concave 



