(52 LIST OF HOMOPTEEOUS INSECTS. 



antrle Body tawny : head narrower than the fore-chest ; crown 

 adorned with four large black marks, the middle pair triangular, 

 connected at the base; face prominent, adorned above with a tri- 

 angular black mark, and on each side in front with black bands : 

 eves prominent: mouth tawny with a black tip : feelers black : 

 fore-chest adorned with six black stripes ; the middle pair slightly 

 converge and then diverge, and include an elhptic space ; the other 

 four are oblique ; each side forming a very obtuse angle at the base 

 „f the fore-winff, armed with a stout tooth near the fore border ; 

 hind-scutcheon^ rather narrow in the middle, broader on each side: 

 a black stripe on the scutcheon of the middle-chest extends frona the 

 fore border along two-thirds of the length; on each side of this a 

 black sl'ghtlv oblique stripe extends from the fore border to halt the 

 lenalh of the middle stripe, and is succeeded by a black dot ; more 

 outward there is a very small black streak, and still nearer the border 

 a lono- black much excavated and slightly slanting stripe appears ; 

 excavation on the hind border extremely slight : abdomen almost 

 linear till near the lip, where it is obcouical, very much longer than 

 the chest, adorned with an interrupted black stripe in the middle, 

 and with a row of black spots on each side ; disks of the segments 

 mostly pitchy: opercula tawny, rather small; tymbals pa e gi^en ; 

 drums pale tawny, verv large, much more than half the length of 

 the abdomen, green towards the tips which are pilchy, broadest in 

 the middle part, slightly concave on the outer side, very convex on 

 the inner side ; legs tawny; tips of the claws black ; middle and 

 hind-thighs and shanks tinged with green ; fore-thighs armed with 

 two oblique teeth : wings colourless, pale brown at the base ; veins 

 and fore borders green ; veins black towards the lips, and adorned 

 with broad black bands on the fore-wings, whose cross-veins are also 

 black ; first and second cro^s-veins clouded with brown. 



Fm— Abdomen obcouical, a little narrower than the chest, very 

 tapering and slender towards the tip, adorned with some pitchy 

 marks along the back and on each side, and with some black marks 

 towards the" tip : oviduct black. .^ .m- 



Length of the body 13—14 lines ; of the wings 40—42 lines. 



a, h. Silhet. From the Rev. J. Stainforth's collection. 



