68 LIST OF HOMOPTEROUS INSECTS. 



gle, parted from the second by four times its length ; second very 

 slightly curved, very slightly slanting, forming an obtuse angle, a 

 litde shorter than the first; third very slightly waved, slanting, 

 forming a hardly acute angle ; fourth waved, forming an acute an- 

 gle, longer and more slautiug than the third ; fifth curved, upright, 

 forming a very slightly acute angle. Body black, nearly linear, 

 tawny beneath : head a little narrower than the fore-chest, adorned 

 with two zigzag tawny marks behind the eyelets, and with a long 

 angular tawny stripe on each side between the eyes ; face very con- 

 vex, rather prominent, adorned with a short tawny stripe, and on 

 each side with tawny bands along the whole length : mouth tawny 

 with a black tip, reaching beyond the hind-hips : eyes prominent : 

 feelers black : fore-chest a little narrower in front than behind ; scut- 

 cheon adorned with a tawny side-stripe, and elsewhere mostly occu- 

 pied by four large, oblique, tawny spots ; the inner pair are much 

 larger than the outer pair, and each contains a sickle-shaped, pitchy 

 spot; hind-scutcheon tawny, nan-ow in the middle, rounded, much 

 widened and adorned with 'three large, pitchy spots near the base of 

 each fore-wing, slightly excavated and aimed with a tooth on each 

 side: disk of the scutcheon of the middle-chest adoraed on each 

 side with three or four irregular tawny streaks, which vary in length 

 and in breadth ; sides, cross-ridge and hind border tawny, the latter 

 rather deeply excavated : abdomen pitchy, slightly obconical, much 

 longer than the chest ; hind borders of the segments tawny ; under- 

 side t;twnv, pitchy at the tip : opercula tawny, close ; drums tawny, 

 obconical", very large, a little apart, more than two-thirds of the 

 length of the abdomen : legs tawny ; feet ferruginous ; claws black, 

 ferruginous towards the base ; fore-ihighs armed with three tawny 

 teeth, two of moderate size, the third very small : wings colour- 

 less, long, naiTOW ; fore border lawny ; veins tawny, adorned with 

 black ba^nds across the disk beneath the brand, black towards the 

 tips, marked with black at the base; fore-flaps pale tawny with a 

 brownish tinge, which colour also occurs on the hind-flaps, at the 

 base, and for a short space along the hind border. Length of the 

 body lOi lines ; of the wings 34 lines, 

 a. North India. From Mr. Warwick's collection. 



