LIST OF IIOMOPTEEOUS INSECTS. 813 



the chest, slightly arched, short-conical in front, rounded on each 

 side, very slightly concave on the hind horder, with a slight middle 

 ridge ; its length a little more than half its breadth ; underside with 

 a whitish middle ridge : shield very slightly convex in front, \vith 

 five very slight ridges, the middle one indistinct and very short; 

 hind border concave in the middle, convex on each side ; scutcheon 

 depressed on the disk, pitchy and slightly gibbous towards the tip : 

 abdomen with a red band on the hind border of each segment : 

 shanks with pitchy tubercles, slightly widened : fore-wings whitish, 

 slightly testaceous rowards the base ; veins pale ferruginous, nodose, 

 partly pitchy ; fore borders rounded towards the tips : hind-wings 

 cqlourless. Length of the body 8^ lines; of the wings 17 lines. 



a. East Indies. From Mr. Sowerby's collection. 



Group 2. Head long, somewhat keeled. 

 8. Ledra caudata. 



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Ferruginea, nigro tuherculata, suhtus testacea nigro varia; scutum 

 convexum, rugnsum ; seutellum apice convexum, fulvum et nigro 

 hivittatum ; abdomen ferrugineo fasciatum ; km. apice cauda- 

 tum ; pedes testacei, nigro varii ; ala anticce piceo-luridcB ; alee 

 posticce fusccB . 



Ferruginous: head and chest thickly covered with very small 

 black tubercles : head short-conical, as broad as the chest, very 

 slightly arched, very concave along the hind border, convex on each 

 side, wMth a very slight middle ridge; its length about half its 

 breadth ; underside black on each side of the disk of the fore part; 

 face testaceous, streaked with black towards the epistoma, which is 

 black: shield fiat in front, convex, rugose and pitchy behind, short 

 on each side, veiy convex on the fore border, concave in the middle 

 and convex on each side of the hind border ; scutcheon fiat, tawny, 

 convex, and with a black stripe on each side towards the tip : breast 

 testaceous ; disk mostly black : abdomen black ; hind borders of the 

 segments ferruginous ; underside with ferruginous dots on each 

 side ; the ferruginous hue is predominant towards the tip ; caudal 

 appendages compressed, as long as the abdomen : legs testaceous, 

 varied with black: fore-wings pitchy; areolets mostly lurid, with 

 pitchy spots along the fore border and at the tip ; fore border con- 

 vex towards the tip: hind-wings brown. Length of the body 12^ 

 lines; of the wings 17 Hues. 



a. New Holland. Presented by the Haslar Hospital. 



