364 LIST OF HOMOPTEBOUS INSECTS. 



notched behind, slightly depressed, a little broader than long; front 

 increasing in breadth lill near the epistoma where it again contracts, 

 much longer than broad ; a row of tawny spots along each side ; 

 disk greenish-yellow towards the epistoma ; a tawny middle ridge 

 traversed near the crown by a yellow ridge ; epistoma triangular, as 

 long as the front, with three yellow spots at the base and one on the 

 disk near the tip : fore-chest nearly as long as the crown, adorned 

 with yellow dots and a yellow middle ridge, straight behind, convex 

 in the middle of the fore border, it is slightly concave for the recep- 

 tion of the eyes : middle-chest triangular, longer than the fore-chest, 

 tinged with green on each side: abdomen longer than the chest, 

 mostly tawny and slightly tinged with green beneath : legs tawny, 

 tinged with green, adorned with irregular brown bands ; hind-shanks 

 ai-med with two teeth whose tips are black : fore-wings pale brown, 

 like those of /. coleoptratus in shape ; veins brown : hind-wings 

 blackish. Length of the body 3 lines ; of the wings 6 lines. 



a. South of France ? 



^^' 13. Issus BIMACULA, Mas. 



Fulvus, fusco varius ; abdomen suhtiis viride, nigro plagiatum ; 

 pedes fulvi, viridi et ferrugineo varii ; alee anticce viridi,fulva- 

 fusco himaculatcB ; alee posiicce suhfulvcB. 



Body tawny : head narrrower than the chest and than the fore- 

 wing near the base ; crown prominent and angular in front, nearly 

 equally notched on the hind border ; front very slightly widening till 

 near the epistoma where it is slightly contracted, brown with a row 

 of tawny spots along each side; the tawny middle ridge is inter- 

 sected by a cross-ridge, between which and the crown the space is 

 dark brown with lawny spots ; epistoma triangular, as long as the 

 front; disk ferruginous with tawny oblique streaks on each side: 

 fore-chest a little shorter than the crown, very convex in the middle 

 of the fore border, straight behind, brown with tawny spots on each 

 side : middle-chest triangular, partly brown, hardly longer than the 

 fore-chest : abdomen obconical, longer than the chest, grass-green 

 beneath with a large black spot in the disk ; tip tawny, partly ferru- 

 ginous : legs tawny, tinged with green and ferruginous ; tips of the 

 shanks and of the feet brown : fore-wings a little narrower towards 

 the tips than those oflT. coleoptratus, pale tawny tinged with green; 

 longitudinal veins green ; cross-veins brown ; a brown spot on the 

 disk near two-thirds of the length from the base: hind-wings pale 

 tawny; veins darker. Length of the body 2^ lines ; of the wings 

 5 lines. 



a. ? Presented by J. G. Children, Esq. 



