714 LIST OF HOMOPTEROUS INSECTS. 



fore border, with a very broad pitchy stripe, which embraces the 

 eyelets and is intersected by a narrow yellow stripe ; its length a 

 little less than half its breadth ; hind border forming a very obtuse 

 angle ; a pitchy spot on each side by the eye, which has a yellow 

 band ; face very convex, almost oval, with a slender flat stripe, on 

 each side of which are about eighteen pitchy, punctured, shallow, 

 oblique, cross furrows ; epistoma slightly keeled : mouth with a 

 pitchy tip, reaching very little beyond the hind hips : feelers 

 pitchy, tawny towards the tips: chest hardly convex, indistinctly 

 keeled, with a slight cross furrow; a slender yellow stripe on the 

 fore part and on the scutcheon, intersecting an irregular pitchy 

 mark : breast partly ferruginous : " abdomen and oviduct ferrugi- 

 nous : legs with ferruginous bands ; tips of the feet pitchy : fore- 

 wings very thickly punctured, convex along the fore border, conical 

 towards the tips ; punctures ferruginous ; two short, slight, oblique 

 yellow stripes on the disk, formed by the absence of punctures ; 

 the spaces between the punctures adjoining some parts of these 

 stripes are ferruginous : hind-wings almost colourless ; veins tawny. 

 Length of the body 4 lines; of the wings 9^ lines. 



a, b. Nova Scotia. From Lieut. Redman's collection. 



24. Ptyelus gelidus. 



Flavus ; caput piceo vittatum ; abdomen "piceum Jiavo fasciatum et 

 biviltatum ; pedes ferrugineo fasciaii ; ales anticce ferrugineo 

 el piceo punctata. 



Yellow : head and chest very roughly punctured, shining ; 

 punctures ferruginous : head flat, with a broad pitchy stripe, which 

 embraces the eyelets and is intersected by a narrow yellow stripe ; 

 its length not more than one-fourth of its breadth ; fore border al- 

 most semicircular; hind border forming an obtuse angle ; face very 

 convex, scutcheon-shaped, with a slender stripe, on each side of 

 which are about fifteen indistinct, oblique cross ridges ; the spaces 

 between them have ferruginous punctures : mouth v\ith a pitchy tip, 

 extending beyond the hind-hips : feelers pitchy, tawny towards 

 the tips : chest very slightly convex, almost flat in front, indistinctly 

 keeled ; some parts on each side ferruginous between the punctures : 

 abdomen pitchy, yellow on each side and along the hind borders of 

 the segments : legs with ferruginous bands ; tips of the feet pitchy : 

 fore-wings very thickly punctured, convex along the fore border, 

 conical towards the tips ; punctures ferruginous, here and there 

 pitchy as are also the spaces between them ; some parts compara- 



