272 list of homopterous insects. 



• ^ 6. Enchophora tubercdlata. 



^Fulgora tuberculata, Oliv. Enc. Meth. vi. 569. Stoll, Cic. 86, pi. 

 23, f. 122. Germ. Thon, Arch. ii. 2, 46. Burm. Handh. Ent. 

 ii. 169. 

 Brazil. 



^ 7. Enchophora sicca, Fein. 



Nigro-fusca cervino reticulata ; abdomen nigrum laterihus supra 

 rufis ; pedes nigri ful.vo maculati apice ferruginei ; aim an- 

 ticcs cervince nigro varice ; alee posticcB rufce apice nigrce alho 

 guttata margine postico nigro maculatce. 

 Allied to AphcBna hoemorrhoidalis F Body black ; head dark 

 fawn-colour, spotted with black, nearly as long as the chest ; pro- 

 tuberance of the head slightly clavate, inclined upward and form- 

 ing an obtuse angle ; scutcheon fawn-colour with black dots : sides 

 of the abdomen red above : legs black with numerous tawny spots ; 

 feet mostly ferruginous ; fore-wings dark fawn-colour or somewhat 

 ferruginous, adorned with very numerous, irregular small black 

 marks : hind-wings red, black with white dots towards the tips, 

 . spotted with black along the hind border. Length of the body 10 

 lines ; of the wings 24 lines. 



a, b. Port Natal. From M. Gueinzius' collection. 



"*' ^ 8. Enchophora pvrrhocrypta, Mas. 



Fulvdy viridi varia Jlavo tuberculata, rufo guttata ; cornu recur- 

 vum ; scutellum nigro bimaculatum ; pedes virides ; alee an- 

 ticcB rufo-fusccc croceo guttatCB ; alee postices rufce, apice f usees. 



This species seems to be a connecting link between Phrictus 

 and Enchophora. Body tawny, dull, tinged with green, covered with 

 numerous small yellow tubercles and with many very little red dots : 

 head full half the breadth of the chest ; a longitudinal ridge on the 

 fore part of the crown, and a slight transverse ridge on its disk, on 

 each side of vvhich adjoining the eye there is a green upright angular 

 horn with black dots ; protuberance of the head green, rugulose, 

 ridged, apparently crumpled, recurved till it almost touches the fore 

 part of the crown, then inclined upward and terminating in three 

 knobs: mouth tawny, extending far beyond the hind-hips: eyes 

 prominent: fore-chest surrounded by a slight ridge, somewhat ex- 

 cavated on the disk, deeply keeled along the middle : scutcheon of 

 the middle-chest with a black spot on each side near the fore border, 

 having a rim tow^ards its tip which is pointed ; five ridges in the disk, 



