list of homopterous insects. 789 



19. Proconia atra. 



PiceUj suhtusjiava (mas) aut nigra (fem.) ; caput irigonum ; scu- 

 tum testaceo fasciatum ; abdomen lateribus Jiavo maculatum^ 

 suhtus nigro Jia voque fasciatum ; pedes fulvi, femoribus Jiavis ; 

 al(B anticcB picecB^ apice luridce ; alee posticce cinerece, fusco 

 marginata. 



Male. Pitchy, bright yellow beneath : head almost triangular, 

 more produced than that of P. parallela ; slightly depressed on each 

 side between the eyes, and in the middle, which has a longitudinal 

 furrow ; disk of the face pitchy towards the epistuma : mouth pitchy : 

 shield roughly punctured, with four larger and deeper depressions 

 in front, slightly testaceous across the disk ; scutcheon almost 

 smooth, with a transverse furrow on the disk : abdomen black, with 

 a row of bright yellow spots along each side : underside with a 

 black band on the fore border of each segment; valves at the tip 

 yellow ; tentacula ferruginous with black tips : legs tawny ; tips of 

 the shanks and of the feet pitchy ; thighs yellow with pitchy tips : 

 fore-wings pitchy, lurid towards the tips : hind-wings gray, with 

 brown borders. 



Fem. Broader and less linear than the male, black beneath ex- 

 cepting a stripe along the fore border of the head and the hind 

 borders of the abdominal segments; wings more brown at the tips. 



Length of the body 7^ lines ; of the wings 14 lines. 



a. Honduras. From Mr. Dyson's collection. 



b. ? 







20. Proconia contearia. 



Nigra; caput trigonum, subtus Jlavo fasciatum ; pectus piceum, 

 Jlavo bivittatum ; abdomen atrum, lateribus ventreque Jlavum 

 nigro fasciatum ; pedes picei ; alee anticce picece^ alba plagiatce^ 

 apice luridce ; alee posticce fusco-cinerece. 



Fem. Black, in structure like P. atra : head above with a lon- 

 gitudinal furrow, beneath with a broad bright yellow band, which 

 joins a yellow stripe along each side of the breast : shield rugulose 

 and roughly punctured, with some large excavations in front : breast 

 pitchy ; abdomen deep black, bright yellow along each side, except- 

 ing the fore borders of the segments ; underside bright yellow, with 

 a black band on the fore border of each segment: legs pitchy: fore- 

 wings pitchy, adorned in the middle of the fore border with a large. 



