804 LIST OF HOMOPTEROUS INSECTS. 



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 14. CiCCUS IGNITER. 



Niger ; fades rufa ; ahdomen apice mlniatum ; 'pedes picei, al- 

 hido varii, femoribus basi testaceis ; alee antics riifce^ apice 

 fusca; al(B posticce fuscce. 



Black : head very long-conical, flat, not curved upward, with a 

 narrow longitudinal furrow ; face finely shagreened, red, and with 

 distinct, oblique ridges on each side, keeled, and with a slight red 

 mark towards the front; epistoma with a reddish border: mouth 

 testaceous: shield finely transversely striated: hind-chest pitchy: 

 abdomen very bright red-lead colour towards the tip : legs pitchy ; 

 thighs testaceous at the base; anterior shanks, anterior feet, and 

 tips of anterior thighs, whitish : fore-wings red, with dark brown 

 tips : hind-wings dark brown. Length of the body 5 lines ; of the 

 wings 9 lines. 



a. Columbia. From M. Jurgens' collection. 



Genus 8. EHAPHIEHINUS. 



Rhaphirhinus, De Laporte, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1. Amyot et Serv. 

 Hist. Nat. Hem. 573. 

 QFulgora, p., Linn.^ Fabr., Gmel., Oliv.^ Tign., Donov. 

 O Cicada, p., Deg. 

 €Tettigonia, p., Burm., Blanch. 



1. Rhaphirhinus easciatus. 



^Fulgora fasciata, Fabr. Mant. Ins. ii. 261, 12. Ent. Syst. iv. 4, 12. 



Syst. Rhyn. 4, 12. Stoll, Cic. 35, pi. 6, f. 29. Gmel. Ed. 



Syst. Nat. i. 4, 2091, 14. 

 ORhaphirhinus obliquatus, DeLap. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. i. 415, 3. 

 i:)Tettigonia fasciata, Burm. Handb. Ent. ii. 120, 9. 



Var. ? 



Stramineus, nigro vittatus ; scutellum piceum ; abdomen sup-a 

 testaceum, luteo fasciatum, apice ferruginewn ; alee antic(B 

 fuscce, apice lurid^, jiavo quadrivittatce ; alee postica sublim- 

 pid(B, apice fusccB. 



Straw colour, slender: head conical, hardly curved upward, 

 with a broad black stripe, and a narrow longitudinal furrow, termi- 



