344 LIST OF HOMOPTEROUS INSECTS. 



tip, reaching beyond the hind-hips: fore-chest very short; five fer' 

 ruginous ridges on the middle-chest whose lip is tawny : abdomen 

 obconical, not longer than the chest ; hind borders of the segments 

 tawny : oviduct tawny, slender, projecting beyond the abdomen to 

 half the length of the latter : legs pale tawny ; thighs mostly brown ; 

 a single spine on each hind-shank: fore-wings almost colourless, 

 pale brown at the tips : cross-veins clouded with brown ; veins pale 

 yellow, adorned with rows of very numerous little brown dots : hind- 

 wings colourless ; veins black. Length of the body 2 lines; of the 

 wings 6 lines. 



a, b. Sierra Leone. Presented by the Rev. F. D. Morgan. 



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24. Cixius TESTACEUs, Fcm. 



Testaceus ; capitis vertex flavo bimaculatus ; mesothorax quinque- 

 carinatus, disco subfulvus ; abdomen Jiavo fasciatum^ apice 

 albo lanuginosum ; pedes fulvi ; ala> antic(B fuscce, apice fulva: 

 aut limpidce ; verKB Jiavce guttisfuscis setiferis ornatce ; alee 

 posticcB sublimpidcB. 



Body testaceous : a high ridge bearing a yellow spot on each 

 side of the crown ; front and epistoma forming an almost spindle- 

 shaped compartment which is indistinctly angular on each side, has 

 a tawny middle ridge, and on each side near the base of the epistoma an 

 angular yellow streak ; front a little shorter than the epistoma : fore- 

 chest very short : five ridges on the middle-chest whose disk is almost 

 tawny : abdomen a little longer than the chest ; its tip thickly 

 clothed with long white filaments : hind borders of the segments 

 yellow beneath : legs tawny, grooved ; hind-shanks armed with three 

 spines: fore-wings brown, tawny and partly colourless towards the 

 tips ; brand brown ; veins pale yellow, adorned with rows of very 

 numerous little brown dots, each of which bears a bristle ; a few 

 cross-veins close some of the areolets towards the tip ; hind-wings 

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

 lines. 



^ 25. Cixius LATiFEONS, Mas. 



Niger ; caput fulvo cinctum, subtus Jiavo bimaculatum ; mesothorax 

 tricarinatus ; abdomen flavo fasciatum ; pedes Jlavi ; femora 

 fusca ; tibice fusco subviltatcs ; alee aniicce jiavo-subfusccB. 



Body black : crown surrounded by a tawny border which has 

 a slight ridge on each side, and is rounded in front and notched be- 



