238 LIST OF HOMOPTEROUS INSECTS. 



9. Cephaloxys quadrimacula, Mas. 



Nervus transversus lus suhcurvus, subobliquus, angulum obtu- 

 sum fingens, 2o dupld ejus longitudine divisus ; 2us ferS 

 rectus, obliguus, angulum perobtusum fingens, \o multb longior; 

 3us subundatus, valde obliquus, angulum acutum fingens ; 

 Aus subcurvus, obliquus, atigulum sub acutum fingens. 



Second maro^inal areolet as long as the first : first cross-vein 

 slightly curved, slightly slanting, fi)rming an obtuse angle, parted 

 from the second by full twice its length; second nearly straight, 

 slanting, forming an extremely obtuse angle, much longer than the 

 first ; third very slightly waved, very slanting, forming an acute 

 angle ; fourth slightly curved, slanting, forming a slightly acute 

 angle, shorter than the third ; fifth curved, upright, forming a 

 slightly acute angle. Body bright tawny, almost hairless : head 

 black, narrower than the fore-chest, adorned with a large tawny spot 

 on each side at the base of the feelers, with a small tawny spot in 

 front, and with three along the hind border ; face prominent, very 

 convex : mouth black, reaching the hind-hips, tawny at the base : 

 feelers black : eyes rather prominent : fore-chest much narrower in 

 front than behind ; scutcheon adorned with a slightly curved black 

 stripe on each side, with two triangular black spots on the fore bor- 

 der, and with three small black spots along the hind border, and it 

 has also a few very indistinct pitchy marks in the disk ; hind-scut- 

 cheon much widened near the base of each fore-wing where it greatly 

 exceeds the breadth of the scutcheon, slightly notched on each side: 

 scutcheon of the middle-chest adorned with four very large black 

 spots ; outer pair obconical, slightly oblique, widened to each other 

 at the base, on the inner side they are slightly excavated by a short 

 very slender oblique tawny stripe ; third spot much shorter, and 

 exhibits a tendency to be divided into two U-shaped spots, the fourth 

 is behind the third, and of a quadrate form, and bears a slender 

 cone on its fore border ; hind border not excavated : abdomen ob- 

 conical, longer and narrower than the chest, black above ; hind 

 borders of the segments adorned with slender interrupted reddish 

 bands; abroad pale tawny band near the tip; horn pale tawny; 

 under side pitchy ; hind borders of the segments ferruginous ; tip 

 pale tawny : opercula very small, pale tawny with blackish disks, 

 partly covering the tymbals which are grayish ; drums bright tawny, 

 rather small, not far apart: legs tawny; hips, middle and hind- 

 thighs and hind-shanks striped with black ; claws ferruginous : fore- 

 thighs black with a tawny spot near the tip, armed with three stout 

 black teeth ; fore-shanks black with a slender tawny band near the 



