794 LIST OF HOMOPTEEOUS INSECTS. 



longitudinally striated, and traversed by an angular black band on 

 the disk, convex, and with transverse ridges on each side, with 

 a broad black band along the fore border ; epistoma at the tip and 

 mouth pitchy : shield with two black bands ; the first undulating, 

 forked on each side, connected by three slender stripes with the 

 second, which is broad, and occupies the hind border ; scutcheon 

 black, with four yellow spots, three along the fore border and one at 

 the tip : breast black on the disk, and with an irregular black ring- 

 let on each side : abdomen black, with a bright yellow tip ; a row of 

 yellow spots along each side ; underside yellow, with a black disk ; 

 fore-wings ferruginous, adorned with tawny spots of various size and 

 shape ; tips lurid : hind-wings brown, almost colourless towards the 

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



a. Bahia. Presented by M. Reiche, 



9. AULACIZES VmiDIVITTA. 



Ferruginea ; caput testaceum ; thorax testaceo maculatus ; scutel- 

 lum apice et pectus lateribus Jiava ; abdomen piceum, maculis 

 fulvis et viridibus trivittatum, subtus fulvum nigro fas datum ; 

 alts anticce flavo guttatte, albo farinosa, apice fusccB ; alee pos- 

 ticce sublimpida, fusco marginata. 



Ferruginous: head testaceous, conical, depressed above, with 

 the exception of the hind border, slightly excavated on the disk to- 

 wards the fore border; face flat, hardly concave on the disk, with 

 transverse ridges on each side: mouth ferruginous: shield trans- 

 versely striated, covered with testaceous dots, wholly testaceous in 

 front,; tip of the scutcheon pale yellow : breast yellow on each side : 

 abdomen pitchy, with a row of connected green spots on the back, 

 and with a row of tawny spots along each side ; underside tawny, 

 with a triangular black band on the fore border of each segment : 

 fore-wings powdered with white, brown towards the tips, pitchy here 

 and there, covered with yellow dots, which in the middle of the fore- 

 border are mostly confluent, and form a distinct triangular spot : 

 hind-wings almost colourless, dark brown towards the tips and along 

 the hind borders. Length of the body 7 lines; of the wings 12 

 lines. 



a. Para. From Mr. Stevens' collection. 



