80 LIST OF HOMOPTEROUS INSECTS. 



length; second very slightly curved, very oblique, forming an ex- 

 tremely obtuse angle, hardly more than half the length of the first; 

 third waved, slightly oblique, forming a hardly acute angle; fourth 

 waved, oblique, forming au acute angle, much longer than the third ; 

 fifth curved, nearly upright, forming a slightly acute angle. Body 

 black, short, broad, partly covered with tawny down : head as broad 

 as tbe fore-chest; a tavvny dot in front of the crown ; face very 

 slightly convex : mouth black, lawny at the base, reaching the hind- 

 hips : eyes not prominent : feelers black : hind-scutcheon of the 

 fore-chest adorned with two large tawny spots, almost straight on 

 each side, which, however, is very slightly concave and has an ob- 

 tuse angle near the base of each fore-wing : scutcheon of the mid- 

 dle-chest adorned with two small tawny spots near the middle of its 

 hind border, which is hardly excavated : abdomen obconical, longer 

 than the chest : drums tawny, extremely small, <ar apart: legs dark 

 tawny ; thighs, especially the fore pair and the middle pair, striped 

 with black ; tips of the shanks, feet and fore-shanks black ; fore- 

 thighs armed with three black teeth, of these two are long and one 

 very small : wings colourless, green along the fore border for half 

 the length, dark brown from thence to the tips, towards the base 

 black, to which colour succeeds a small space adorned with opaline 

 lustre ; veins tawny, black towards the tips ; first and second cross- 

 veins and the adjoining parts of the longitudinal veins clouded 

 with dark brown ; flaps black towards the base. Length of the body 

 18 lines ; of the wings 54 lines. 



a. Silhet. From Mr. Sowerby's collection. 



^4. FiDICINA NIVIFERA, MaS. 



Nervus transversus lus subcurvus, valde obliquus, angulum perob- 

 tmum Jinyens, 2o fere triplo ejus longitudine divisus ; 2us 

 subcurvus obliquus, angulum valde obtusum Jingens, \i dimi- 

 dio longitudine ; 3us undatus, obliquus, migitlum subacutum 

 fingens ; 4ms undatus, obliquus, angulum acutum fingens, 

 3o multb longior. 



Second marginal areolet as long as the first : first cross-vein 

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

 parted from the second by nearly thrice its length ; second very 

 slightly curved, slanting, forming a very obtuse angle, full half the 

 length of the first; third waved, slanting, forming a slightly acute 

 angle; fourth waved, slanting, forming an acute angle, much shorter 

 than the third ; fifth slightly curved, nearly upright, forming an 

 acute angle. Body black, shining, short and broad, partly clothed 

 with golden hairs which are most prevalent beneath : head very broad 



