96 LIST OF HOMOPTEROUS INSECTS. 



on the disk with two short very slender middle stripes, and on eacli 

 side of them with a large triangular red spot, between which and 

 each side there is a slender oblique red streak ; hind border pale red, 

 hardly excavated: abdomen obconical, a little shorter than the chest, 

 adorned with a large yellow spot on each side near the base ; under 

 side adorned on the disk with a large pitchy spot, behind which are 

 two pitchy dots : legs tawny ; thighs and fore-hips streaked with 

 black ; feet, lore-shanks, and the tips of the middle-shanks black ; 

 claws black, tawny at the base ; fore-thighs armed with two tawny 

 teeth of moderate size : wings colourless ; fore border ferruginous 

 with a black stripe beneath as far as the brand, black from thence to 

 the tip ; veins tawny, tinged with ferruginous in the fore-wings, 

 black towards the tips, marked with black at the base ; primitive 

 areolet tawny ; fore-flaps pale buff; hind-flaps pale buff at the base 

 and along some part of the veins. Length of the body 13 lines; 

 of the wings 40 lines. 



a. New Holland. Presented by the Earl of Derby. 



^29. FiDiciNA FuLLO, Mas et Fern. 



Nervus transversus }us subcurvus, perobliquus, angulum perobtu- 

 sumjingens, 2o fere triplb ejus longitudine divisus ; 2us sub- 

 curvus, valde obliguus, angulum perobtusum Jingens, M longi- 

 tudine ; 3us curvus, subobliquus, angulum subacutum, fingens ; 

 Aus subcurvus, subobliquus, angulum subacutum fingens, 3i 

 longitudine. 



Second marginal areolet more than three-fourths of the length of 

 the first: first cross-vein very slightly curved, extremely slanting, 

 forming an extremely obtuse angle, parted from the second by nearly 

 thrice its length; second very slightly curved, very slanting, form- 

 ing an extremely obtuse angle, as long as the first ; third curved, 

 slightly slanting, forming a slightly acute angle ; fourth slightly 

 curved, slightly slanting, forming a slightly acute angle, as long as 

 the third ; fifth curved, nearly upright, forming a very slightly acute 

 angle. 



Male. — Body black, short, broad, much powdered with white 

 on the under side, clothed with pale hairs and down : head a little 

 narrower than the fore-chest ; three small tawny marks about the 

 region of the eyelets : a short tawny band in front on each side of 

 the face which is very convex : mouth ferruginous with a black tip, 

 reaching to the hind borders of the drums : eyes prominent : feelers 

 black, fore-chest a little narrower in front than behind ; scutcheon 

 adorned with a tawny middle stripe which tapers from the fore border 



