304 LIST OF HOMOPTEROUS INSECTS. 



-^ Fulgora hyaliua, Gmel. Ed. Syst. Nat. i. 4, 2091, 17. 



a, h. Silliet. From the Kev. J. Stainforth's collection. 



c. ? 



d. India. From Mr. Sowerby's collection. 



V 2. DiCHOPTERA SMARAGDINA, MaS. 



Ferruginea, nigro varia ; metathorax viridis ; abdomen viride, 

 nigro fasciatum ; pedes fulvi, nigro maculati ; femora rufo- 

 guttata ; alceanticceferruginecE^fusco maculates^ apice limpidce 

 fusco varies; alee posticce limpidce, basi virides^ apice subfuscce. 



Body greenish-tawny, covered with red dots, many of which 

 are confluent, and give the head and chest a ferruginous hue: head 

 about half the breadth of the chest; crown small, having on each 

 side adjoining the eye a lofty ridge, which forms an upright plate, 

 the fore part of its side borders is black ; disk of the crown divided 

 into two compartments by a ridge which is forked towards the fore 

 border, each compartment contains three black spots ; protuberance 

 of the head conical, curved upward, slightly furrowed, a little 

 longer than the crown, spotted with black ; face large, scutcheon- 

 shaped, with a rim round the border, and two nearly parallel 

 ridges in the disk ; face shield-shaped, with a rim round its border, 

 some pitchy marks on its disk ; epistoma small, narrow, keeled, 

 partly pitchy : mouth tawny with a black tip, extending near to the 

 tip of the abdomen : fore-chest large, straight along the hind border, 

 much widened in front; a slight ridge along the middle divides 

 a short black stripe towards the fore border ; a ridge runs nearly 

 parallel to each side, on which is a black spot adjoining each eye : 

 disk of the scutcheon of the middle-chest occupied by a cruciform 

 black mark, which is irregular and much excavated, and its disk is 

 mostly tawny ; hind-chest bright green ; abdomen bright emerald- 

 green, obconical, a little longer than the chest ; hind borders of the 

 segments with black bands, increasing in breadth towards the tip, 

 their fore borders are irregular ; tip of the abdomen black, hairy : 

 legs tawny, furrowed, spotted with black ; thighs dotted with red ; 

 anterior feet black ; hind-shanks armed with black-tipped spines : 

 fore-wings ferruginous with brown marks for near half the length 

 from the base, colourless from thence to the tips, about which there 

 are many small brown marks, some of which are confluent ; veins 

 brown, tawny towards the base : hind-wings colourless, bright 

 emerald-green at the base, slightly tinged with brown at the ttps. 

 and on the hind border near the base ; veins black, green towards 

 the base. Length of the body 7 lines ; of the wings 22 lines. 



a. Venezuela. From Mr. Dyson's collection. 



