LIST OF HOMOPTEROUS INSECTS. 339 



^ Genus 8. CIXIUS. 



Cixius, Latreille. 

 (TFlata, Fahr. Germar. 

 c^ixia, Burmeister. 

 o Delphax, Fallen. 



<^. Cixius CoLOMBiiE, Mas. 



Fusco-fulvus ; caput anticum carinatum ; mesothorax tricarinatus ; 

 abdomen ferrugineum ; pedes fulvi ; alee anticce sublimpidce^ 

 fusco etfulvo varicB ; alie posticcs apicefuscce. 



Body tawny, partly brown : head much narrower than the chest ; 

 crown longer than broad, concave, conical in front, deeply notched 

 on the hind border ; front very narrow between the eyes, forming 

 with the epistoma a fusiform compartment, which has a longitudinal 

 ridge ; mouth tawny, darker towards the tip, extending far beyond 

 the hind-hips : fore-chest very short in the middle, widened and 

 darker on each side, very slightly arched ; its middle ridge rather 

 indistinct : three ridges on the middle-chest, the side pair diverging 

 towards the hind border: abdomen ferruginous, obconical, longer 

 than the chests legs tawny ; two stout spines on the hind-shanks : 

 fove-wings almost colourless, slightly tawny here and there, or with 

 brown marks of which the largest is on the disk ; brand lawny ; 

 veins tawny with brown dots which also occur on some of the areo- 

 lets: hind-wings almost colourless, with brown tips; veins black. 

 Length of the body 3 lines ; of the wings 7 lines. 



a. Colombia. From Mr. Turner's collection. 



<i" 2. Cixius musivus. 



^Flatamusiva, Germ, et Ahr. Faun. Eur. xi. 21. Germ. Thon, Arch. 



ii. 2, 49, 33. Herr.-Sch'dff. Nomencl. Ent. i. 64. 

 C Cixia musiva, Burm. Handh. Ent. ii. 1, 158, 7. 



Europe, 



- 3. Cixius lepoeinus. 



Cixius leporinus, Latr. Gen. Crust. Ill, \QQ. Costa, Faun. Regn, 

 Nap. Ins. Emitt. Cixius, 4, 1. Panz. Ixi. 19. 

 C Cicada leporina, Linn. Faun. Suec. 895. Gmel. Ed. Syst. Nat. i. 

 Faun. Ins. Germ. 4, 2114, 4.^* 



