324 LIST OF HOMOPTEROUS INSECTS. 



43. DicTYOPHORA ? Pupa. 



a — d. Cape. From M. Drege's collection. 



44. DiCTYOPHORA ? Pupa. 



a. Sicily. From Mr. Melly's collection. 



V o Genus 5. ASELGEIA. 



Dictyophoras affinis : alae anticae confertim reticulatae ; areola 

 quaeque dimidio intersecta. 



Distinguished horn Dicit/ophora by the structure of the body, 

 and more especially by that ol the fore-wings, which are noticed in 

 the following description. 



^ 1. ASELGEIA RAMULIFERA, MaS. 



Flavo-viridis, sub tuber culata ; caput prothorace duplb longius ; 

 abdomen thorace non longius; pedes fulvo-virides ; alee lim- 

 pidcB. 



Body elliptical, grass-green, dull, slightly tuberculate, here and 

 there yellowish : head twice the length of the fore-chest, triangular, 

 its length equalling its breadth ; its tip pointed: a ridge on each 

 side above ; three ridges on the under side, the side pair slightly 

 converging till very near the epistoma where they diverge ; epistoma 

 large, with a slight middle-ridge, rounded and having a rim on each 

 side for half the length, lanceolate from thence to the tip : mouth 

 green with a black tip, reaching the hind-hips : chest not ridged : 

 fore-chest slightly convex in front and equally concav^e on the hind 

 border, a little widened on each side : abdomen obconical, not longer 

 than the chest : legs green, grooved, tinged with tawny ; hind-shanks 

 armed with seven black-tipped spines; hind-feet somewhat widened : 

 wings colourless ; the whole surface of the fore-wings thickly inter- 

 sected with minute areolets ; from the vein on one side of each a 

 branch proceeds into the disk and is there furcate ; veins green, those 

 of the hind-wings comparatively few. Length of the body 4 lines; 

 of the wings 10 lines. 



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



