LIST OF HOMOPTEROUS INSECTS. 989 



Prunifex, Ami/ot, Aim. Soc. Ent. Fr. 2me Serie, v. 476, 322. 

 Calamapbis, Amt/ot, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 2me Serie, v. 477. 



Distance between the first and second veins at the tips much 

 more than twice that between ihera at the base ; third much far- 

 ther from the second at the tip than at the base, farther from 

 the second at the base than the second is from the first ; first 

 fork much nearer to the second fork than to the third vein, as 

 near to the third vein as the third is to the second ; second fork 

 a little nearer to the fourth vein than to the first fork ; fourth 

 vein slightly curved, much nearer to the second fork than to the 

 tip of the rib-vein. 



Var. ? The viriparoiis icingless female. Pale or dark green, el- 

 liptical, rather long and narrow : feelers a little more than half the 

 length of the body : mouth pale green or pale yellow : necta- 

 ries black : legs pale green or pale yellow, moderately long ; knees, 

 feet, and tips of shanks darker. 



The viviparous winged female. Pale green while a pupa : 

 head, disk of chest and that of breast dark gray, when the wings 

 are unfolded : feelers black, nearly as long as the body : nectaries 

 hardly projecting above the surface of the abdomen: wing-ribs 

 yellow ; brand and veins brown. From Arundo Phragmitis at the 

 end of September, near Newcastle. 



Var. ? The oviparous wingless female. Narrow, rather flat, 

 slightly increasing in breadth from the head till near the tip of 

 the abdomen, pale yellowish green, velvet-like; a vivid bluish- 

 green stripe down the back and a more indistinct stripe on each 

 side : feelers black, pale yellow towards the base, less than half the 

 length of the body : mouth pale yellow with a black tip : necta- 

 ries pale yellow with black tips, about one-eighth of the length of 

 the body : legs pale yellow, rather short ; knees, feet, and tips 

 of shanks black. Eggs green, spindle-shaped, very large. 



TJie luingless male. Linear, narrower than the female : feelers 

 nearly as long as the body : head sometimes bufi", and chest some- 

 times yellow. From Arundo arenaria in the beginning of Octo- 

 ber, near Fleetwood. 



a. Scotland. Presented by E. Doubleday, Esq. 

 b — z. England. (lu Canada Balsam). From Mr. Walker's collec- 

 tion. 



