332 LIST OF HOMOPTEROUS INSECTS. 



not prominent : fore-chest pale green, convex in front, slightly con- 

 cave behind, with a brown spot on each side of the disk : a greenish 

 tinge in the disk of the middle-chest, on each side of which are three 

 black spots in the form of a triangle : hind-chest yellow : abdomen 

 obconical, longer than the chest ; hind borders of the segments 

 yellow: legs tawny, slightly grooved, rather broad; hind-shanks 

 armed with two black-tipped spines: wings broad; fore-wings dull 

 tawny, nearly colourless towards the tips, slightly tuberculate at the 

 base, fore-membrane very broad and convex towards the base, fur- 

 nished with very numerous nearly parallel branch veins ; a pale brown 

 triangular spot pointing inward on each areolet at the tip ; a few 

 brown spots scattered on the disk ; under side tinged with white ; 

 veins pale green: hind-wings whitish, tinged with pale purplish 

 brow^n towards the tips and along the hind border ; veins tawny, 

 pale green towards the base. Length of the body 4^ lines; of the 

 wings 12 lines. 



a. West Coast of North America. Presented by Capt. Kellet and 

 Lieut. Wood. 



^ 11. Elidiptera punctata, Mas. 



Viridi-fulva, sat lata, fusco maculata ; pedes viridi-fulvi ; alcB an- 

 iicce virides, alho farinoscB, basi subtuber dilates, fusco macu- 

 lates, ad costam dilatatcs ; alee posticce albidee, apice subfuscee. 



Body tawny, tinged with pale green, rather broad : head a little 

 longer than the fore-chest, slightly marked with brown, forming an 

 obtuse angle on each side in front of the eyes ; a brown spot on the 

 tip ; two brown spots on each side in the groove above the base of 

 the antennae ; front quadrate, flat ; epistoma forming an acute tri- 

 angle : mouth pale tawny with a brown tip, reaching the middle- 

 hips : eyes prominent: feelers rather long, yellow towards the base ; 

 second joint about twice the length of the first : fore-chest convex 

 in front, equally concave behind, with a brown spot on each side of 

 the disk near the fore border : two brown spots on each side of the 

 middle-chest: abdomen obconical, longer than the chest; upper 

 appendage of the sexual apparatus brown at the tip : legs pale 

 greenish-tawny, slightly grooved, rather broad ; hind-shanks armed 

 with two black-tipped teeth : wings broad ; fore-wings pale dull green, 

 powdered with white, somewhat tuberculate at the base, adorned 

 with dark brown dots which are mostly along the border ; fore 

 border much dilated and very convex near the base, furnished with 

 very numerous branch veins, which are mostly parallel ; a few of 

 them are forked ; veins pale green : hind-wings whitish, tinged with 



