134 LIST OF HOMOPTEROUS INSECTS. 



^leen, clothed above with whitish shining down, powdered with 

 white beneath: head a little narrower than the fore-chest; crown 

 adorned with a hlack interrupted band which by the eyelets sends 

 forth two branches nearly to the hind border ; face slightly convex 

 adorned with abroad black band along its hind border: mouth tawny 

 with a black lip, reaching a little beyond the hind-hips : eyes rather 

 prdminent: feelers black : fore-chest rather short ; scutcheon black- 

 ish along the fore border, adorned with a short black stripe on the 

 hind border; hind-scutcheon green, rather narrow, rounded but 

 hardly widened above the base of each fore-wing, not excavated but 

 beset with a few short black bristles on each side : scutcheon of the 

 middle-chest adorned with four obconical dark ferruginous stripes ; 

 middle pair not more than half the length of the outer pair ; hind 

 border slightly excavated: abdomen obconical, ferruginous, a little 

 longer, and very little broader than tlie chest : opercula none ; tym- 

 bals wliitish ; drums pale yellow, very small, far apart, black on 

 each side towards the base : legs tawny ; feet ferruginous with pitchy 

 tips ; claws black, tawny at the base ; fore-thighs marked with black, 

 armed with one tawny tooth near the tip; wings colourless: fore 

 border greenish tawny as far as the brand, pitchy thence towards the 

 lip : veins black, green towards the base in the fore-wings, tawny 

 towards the base in the hind-wings ; primitive areolet tawny ; fore- 

 Haps brown ; hind-wings brown at the base. Length of the body 1 1 

 lines ; of the wings 36 lines. 



a. British Guiana. Presented by Sir R. Schomburghk. 



cf72. Cicada Pidytes, Mas. 



Nerviis transversus lus ciirvus, obliquus, angulum valde obtusum 

 Jingens, 2o plus quadruplb ejus longitudine divisus ; 2us cur- 

 rws, obliquus, angulum valde obtusum Jingens, \o vix longior ; 

 3us subundatus, obliquus, angulum subacutum Jingens ; 4us 

 subundatu^, obliquus, unguium subacutum Jingens, So paullo 

 brevior. 



Second marginal areolet about two-thirds of the length of the 

 first: first cross-vein curved, slanting, forming a very obtuse angle, 

 parted from the second by more than four times its length ; second 

 curved, slanting, forming a very obtuse angle, hardly longer than 

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

 angle; fourth slightly waved, slanting, forming a slightly acute an- 

 gle, a little shorter than the third ; fifth curved, upright, forming a 

 slightly acute angle. Body green, slightly tinged with tawny : 

 head nearly as broad as the fore-chest, adorned with an irregular 



