38 LIST OF HOMOPTEROUS INSECTS, 



above, tawny beneath : head much narrower than the fore-chest; 

 crown adorned with two tawny bands, one in front of the eyelets, 

 the other along the hind border: face slii,^htly convex, not promi- 

 nent : mouth tawny with a black tip, reaching the hind-hips : feelers 

 black : eyes not prominent : fore-chest broadest in the middle ; 

 hind-scutcheon mostly dull red, widened and forming a very obtuse 

 angle on each side : scutcheon of the middle-chest dull red on each 

 side and on the hind border, which is slightly excavated : abdomen 

 very slightly decreasing in breadth from the base to the tip, nearly 

 as broad as the chest and much longer ; hind borders of the seg- 

 ments tawny: opercula none; tymbals brown, adorned with white 

 streaks ; drums tawny, nearly meeting, rather small : legs tawny ; 

 claws black towards the tips; fore-thighs, middle-thighs and fore- 

 shanks spotted with black ; fore-thighs armed with two distinct 

 sharp tawny teeth ; hind-shanks beset with a few tawny spines : wings 

 very slightly tinged with clear brown, darker towards the tips, dark 

 reddish tawny at the base ; cross-veins and brands clouded with dark 

 brown ; a rim of brown spots on the tips of the longitudinal veins 

 of the marginal areolets; veins pitchy ; flaps of the hind-wings 

 dark reddish tawny towards the base, brown along the fore border. 

 Length of the body 15 lines ; of the wings 41 lines. 



a. St. Domingo. Presented by M. A. Pierret. 



8. Zammara plena, Mas. 



Nervus transversns lus fere rectus^ subohliquus, angulum ohtusum 

 fingens^ 2o plus quadruplo ejus longitudine divisus ; '2us sub- 

 cunuSy valde obliquus, angulum perobtusum Jingens, lo plus 

 duplo longior ; 'dus subundatus, obliquus, angulum acutum 

 Jingens ; 4us subcurvus, obliquus, angulum subacuium Jingens, 

 So longior. 



Second marginal areolet more than two-thirds of the length of 

 the first: first cross-vein nearly straight, very slightly slanting, 

 forming an obtuse angle, parted from the second by more than four 

 times its length ; second slightly curved, very slanting, forming an 

 extremely obtuse angle, much more than twice the length of the 

 first ; third very slightly waved, slanting, forming an acute angle ; 

 fourth very slightly curved, slanting, forming a slightly acute angle, 

 longer than the third ; fifth curved, almost upright, forming a 

 hardly acute angle. Body tawny : head much narrower than the 

 fore-chest, blackish in front ; crown adorned with an irregular in- 

 terrupted black band ; face very slightly convex : mouth lawny with 

 a black tip, reaching the hind-hips : eyes rather prominent: feelers 



