290 LIST OF HOMOPTEEOUS INSECTS. 



^ 2. POLYDICTYA TEICOLOR ? Mas et FeiTQ. 



Lystra tricolor ? Westw. Arc. Ent. ii. 35, pi. 57, f. 4. 



Rufa, nigra fasciata viridi varia ; pedes rufi ; alee anticce fusc<s basi 

 siraminecB nigro maculatce ; alee posticce rufce apice fuscce. 



Body bright red, smooth, shining : head dull tawny, tinged 

 with green, narrower than the thorax ; crown short, somewhat exca- 

 vated, surrounded by a ridge, having a brown spot on each side ; 

 front large, flat, scutcheon-shaped, with large shallow excavations 

 along each side, in the female reticulated with green on the fore 

 border and along each side, which is green ; face and epistoma 

 black in the male, green with a red disk in the female : mouth tawny, 

 extending a little beyond the hind-hips : fore-chest having in front 

 a black band which is broader in the male than in the female ; scut- 

 cheon of the middle-chest black, excavated and red along the hind 

 border :< hind-chest rather large, slightly excavated, with a rim along 

 the hind border, black in the male : abdomen nearly linear, not 

 longer than the chest, dark olive-green towards the base in the male: 

 legs red, furrowed; hind-shanks armed with spines: fore-wings 

 brown, pale straw-colour for near half the length from the base, 

 adorned with six black spots ; three of these form an interrupted 

 band near the base ; the other three are in a transverse line on the 

 middle of the pale part, the middle one is wanting in the left wing 

 of the male ; a straw-coloured spot on the brown part rather beyond 

 the middle of the fore border: hind-wings bright red, brown towards 

 the tips ; veins pale. Length of the body 6 — 8 lines ; of the wings 

 18—22 lines. 



o. Malabar Coast. Presented by T. Ward, Esq. 

 h. North India. From Mr. Warwick's collection. 



^ 3. POLYDICTYA? PUNCTATA. 



^ Lystra punctata, Signoret, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 2me Sirie, viii. pi. 

 2, L 



^ Genus 12. POIOCERA. 



Poiocera, De Laporte, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. i. 221. 

 '^O Cicada, Fabr. 

 *' '^ Lystra, Fabr., Germar, Perty, Guerin, Westwood. 



feFulgora, Olivier. 



O Pceocera, Burmeister, Amyot et Serville, Schaum. 

 / t? Cladodipteryx ? Westtvood. 



