244 LIST OF HOMOPTEEOUS INSECTS. 



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

 angle ; fourth nearly straight, almost upright, forming an obtuse 

 angle, little more than half the length of the third ; fifth very 

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

 green : head and chest hairy : head very small, not more than half 

 the breadth of the fore-chest, clothed with black hairs above, with 

 white hairs beneath ; crown black, with three greenish -tawny spots 

 along the hind border; middle one conical, extending to the space 

 between the eyelets ; face pale yellow, prominent, very convex, 

 adorned on each side in front with slender brown bands : mouth 

 tawny with a black tip, reaching the middle-hips : feelers black : 

 eyes not at all proninent : fore-chest much narrower in front than 

 behind ; scutcheon tinged with tawny on each side, adorned with 

 eight black stripes, the middle pair parallel and very near together, 

 the next pair forked towards the hind border, one of the forks reach- 

 ing the middle pair, third and fourth pair oblique, the third occu- 

 pying the furrows, the fourth on the borders ; hind-scutcheon green, 

 very slightly excavated on the hind border, extending near the base 

 of the fore-wing far beyond the scutcheon : scutcheon of the middle- 

 chest adorned with a long black curved stripe on each side, its disk 

 adorned with four black stripes, the inner pair narrower in the 

 middle and forming two imperfect triangles, the outer pair shorter, 

 obconical ; hind border not excavated : breast marked with black, 

 clothed with long white hairs: abdomen obconical, tinged with 

 tawny, hardly longer than the chest ; opercula none ; tymbals pitchy, 

 tinged with gray ; drums extremely small, the space between them 

 equal to twice the breadth of each one : legs green ; hips and thighs 

 striped with black ; knees black ; shanks tinged with tawny towards 

 the tips ; claws tawny, black towards the tips; a black ring near 

 the tip of each middle shank ; tips of the fore shanks black : wings 

 tawny ; fore border green in one wing and luteous in the other of the 

 specimen described : veins of the fore-wings clouded with brown, 

 mostly white, but having some broad black bands here and there 

 from the base to the middle ; veins of the hind-wings luteous, here 

 and there whitish, and more rarely slightly clouded with brown ; 

 fore-flaps whitish ; hind-flaps tawny, whitish at the base and along 

 the fore border. Length of the body 11 lines ; of the wings 28 lines. 



a. South Africa. Presented by G. F. Angas, Esq. 



