750 LIST OF HOMOPTEROUS INSECTS. 



thighs and shanks black towards the tips ; feet partly black : fore- 

 wings lurid, adorned with numerous white dots, bright red near the 

 tips and thence for a short space along each border ; fore border and 

 hind border bright red, a purple tinge alongside the former : hind- 

 wings brown with a coppery lustre, paler along the fore borders. 

 Length of the body 5 lines; of the wings 12 lines. 



a. Quito. Presented by M. Bourcier. 



53. Tettigonia trita. 



Rufa,, rohusta; scutelli discus nigricans ; abdomen nigro -purpurea 

 vittatum, lateribus albo maculatis, ventre jiavo apice rufo ; tarsi' 

 apice nigri ; alee anticcB luridce, basi et ad costam rufce ; aloe 

 posticcefuscce. 



Bright red, rather stout: head short ; crown semicircular; face 

 flat on the disk, with some slight, oblique ridges on each side; epi- 

 stoma keeled : disk of the scutcheon blackish : abdomen with a 

 purplish black stripe along the back, and with a whitish triangular 

 spot on each side of every segment ; underside pale yellow with a 

 red tip ; feet with black tips : fore-wings lurid, mostly red towards 

 the base along the fore border till near the tips : hind-wings brown. 

 Length of the body 5 lines ; of the wings 10 lines. 



a. Java. From the East India Company's collection. 



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54. Tettigonia .estuans. 



Crocea, robusta ; thorax nigra bifasciatus ; abdomen disco pur- 

 pureo-rufum, basi testaceum et compressum ; pedes picei^fe- 

 moribus posterioribus Jlavis, tibiis intermediis fulvis ; al(B 

 anticcB ferruginece, croceo trifasciatce, apice luridce ; alee pos- 

 ticce luridce. 



Saffron-colour, stout, shining: bead short, broader than the 

 chest ; crown concave on the hind border, more convex, and with a 

 black band in front ; underside testaceous ; face somewhat flattened, 

 very finely rugulose, smooth, with indistinct striae, and with pale 

 brown, oblique bands on each side: mouth ferruginous; shield 

 transversely striated, with two black bands, one on each border; 

 scutcheon black towards the base : abdomen purplish red on the 

 disk, testaceous and compressed towards the base : sheaths of the 



