792 LIST OF HOMOPTEROUS INSECTS. 



live rows of irregular spots : legs red ; shanks darker than the thighs ; 

 feet black : fore-wings reddish pitchy, with brown tips : hind-wings 

 dark brown, with a coppery tinge. Length of the body 7 lines; 

 of the wings 14 lines. 



a. British Guiana. Presented by Sir B. Schomburgk. 

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5. AULACIZES ATOMARIA. 



Nigra ; caput ferrugineum, Jlavo varium ; tliorax fiavo varius ; 

 pectus et abdomen flava, hoc apice piceum ; pedes fulvi ; alee 

 antics picecB, Jlavo confertlm guttatce ; alee posticcB fuscce. 



Head ferruginous, short-conical, blackish, and impressed on 

 each side by the hind border, deeply furrowed in front ; hind bor- 

 der yellow, with a row of brown spots ; face concave on the disk, 

 convex, yellow, and with oblique ridges on each side ; epistoma lu- 

 teous : chest black : shield rugose, adorned with two yellow bands, 

 the first interrupted; scutcheon adorned with yellow marks: breast 

 mostly yellow : abdomen yellow, pitchy towards the tip : legs tawny ; 

 fore-wings pitchy, thickly covered with yellow convex dots : hind- 

 wings brown. Length of the body 7\ lines ; of the wings 15 lines. 



a. Para. From Mr. Stevens' collection. 







6. AULACIZES CONSPERSA. 



Flava^ nigro fasciata et vittata ; pectus nigro quadrimaculatum ; 

 abdominis dorsum nigrum; ales anticts ferruginece, Jlavo con- 

 fertlm maculates, apice fulvcs ; alee posticce sublimpidcB, Jusco 

 marginata. 



Yellow : head truncate-conical, excavated in front, with a short 

 black band in the disk, and with two oblique black stripes, which are 

 connected by a black band along the hind border ; face slightly con- 

 cave and striated longitudinally on the disk, convex, and with trans- 

 verse ridges on each side, adorned towards the fore border with a 

 black band, which is continued on each side towards the eye : shield 

 adorned with two black bands, the first slender, forked on each side, 

 connected by a black stripe with the second, which is broader, and 

 includes two yellow spots and occupies the hind border ; scutcheon 

 with a black band, black at the tip : breast with two black spots on 

 each side : abdomen black above, excepting the tip : fore-wings fer- 

 ruginous, adorned with numerous yellow spots, of various size ; a 



