758 LIST OF HOMOPTEEOUS INSECTS. 



two clavate black stripes, and with a black spot between the tips of 

 the stripes ; its length less than half its breadth ; underside pale yel- 

 low ; face oval, with a flat, pale orange disk ; a black stripe along 

 two-thirds of each side is united to a black stripe on the epistoma, 

 the latter is keeled and slightly compressed : mouth pale yellow : 

 chest with a broad orange band, which is half interrapted on the 

 hind border, and is waved along the fore border, near each side of 

 which it includes a little black cross streak ; a large subquadrate 

 orange spot, whose hind border is notched on each side, near the tip 

 of the scutcheon, which is tawny : legs pale yellow: wings brown- 

 ish gray; fore-wings gray, with three orange stripes; first and 

 second united at the base ; third hardly extending beyond the 

 middle ; veins brown. Length of the body 2^ lines; of the wings 6 

 lines. 

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



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72. Tettigonia picta. 



Fulva ; caput et thorax nigro varia ; thorax viridi fasciatus ; 

 pectus fiavum ; abdoinen I'ufum, subtus Jlavum, apice nigrum ; 

 pedes Jlavi ; alee anticce viridi-fusca, vittis una viridi duahus- 

 que luteis ornatae. 



Head tawny, flat, concave along the hind border, conical in 

 front, where it has a black border ; its length a little more than half 

 its breadth ; face convex, almost oval, nearly flat on the disk, on 

 each side of which are ten indistinct oblique cross ridges ; face pale 

 yellow, keeled, slightly compressed : mouth tawny : chest tawny, 

 with a very broad black band, which includes a ferruginous band ; a 

 narrow grass-green band along the fore border : breast pale yellow : 

 abdomen very bright red, yellow beneath ; tip tawny, compressed, 

 black above : legs yellow : fore-wings greenish brown, with three 

 stripes ; first bright grass-green along the fore border ; the second 

 and third orange ; veins green : hind-wings grayish brown ; veins 

 brown, tawny at the base. Length of the body 3 lines ; of the wings 

 7 lines. 



^ Var. ^. Tip of the abdomen red. 



