300 LIST OF HOMOPTEROUS INSECTS. 



side ; hind-chest black with transverse ridges, which are partly ferru- 

 ginous or red : abdomen black, nearly square, a little broader but 

 not longer than the chest, adorned along each side with a very bril- 

 liant red stripe, and with a row of black spots which are more or less 

 confluent with the black disk : legs black, furrowed : wings red at 

 the base: fore-wings black, adorned with numerous tawny spots ; 

 those towards the tips are nearly colourless : veins tawny, paler to- 

 wards the tips : hind-wings dark brown for half the length from the 

 base, colourless from thence to the tips; veins black. Length of 

 the body 4 lines ; of the wings 12 lines. 



35. POIOCERA BIMACULA, MaS. 



Fulva ; metathorax piceus ; abdomen piceum, subtus et apice ful- 

 vum; pedes fulvi; tibice anticcB nigro maculata: ; alee anticce 

 ferruginem^ maculis duabus Jlavis ad costam ornatce ; apice 

 fulvce ; alee posticce fuscce^ apice sublimpidee. 



Body tawny, finely rugulose, slightly shining : head much 

 narrower than the chest ; its breadth more than twice its length ; 

 crown short, surrounded by a ridge ; front flat, very rugulose, with 

 three ridges, the side pair curved and oblique ; epistoma slightly 

 ridged : mouth tawny, extending far beyond the hind-hips : fore- 

 chest with a ridge along the middle, widened in front, very angular 

 on each side : scutcheon of the middle-chest with three ridges, the 

 side pair nearly semicircular : hind-chest pitchy -. abdomen pitchy, 

 nearly obconical, tawny at the tip and beneath: legs tawny, fur- 

 rowed; feet partly black; fore-shanks spotted with black; hind- 

 shanks armed with spines : fore- wings ferruginous, dull tawny to- 

 wards the tips, with two round pale yellow spots on the fore border ; 

 a few indistinct white dots in the disk; veins tawny: hind-wings 

 brown from the base to a little beyond the middle, nearly colourless 

 from thence to the tips ; veins black. Length of the body 6 lines ; 

 of the wings 21 lines. 



^ ^ 36. PoiocERA SEMILIMPIDA, Mas ct Fcm. 



Fulva ; caput nigro trimaculatum et unifasciatum ; mesothoracis 

 scutellum nigro octomacidatmn ; abdomen subtus basi luteum ; 

 pedes fulvi ; alee limpidce, basi rufce ; alee anticee dimidio ni- 

 gree^fiavo bimaculatee et unifasciatee. 



Body tawny, dull, very finely rugulose : head very little nar- 

 rower than the chest, its breadth more than twice its length ; crown 



