LIST OF HOMOPTEROUS INSECTS. 375 



<^ 8. Hysteropterum conspurcatum. 



Issus conspurcatus, Friwaldsky MSS. Spin. Ann. Soc. Eat. Fr. 

 viii. 363, 15. 



Roumelia. 



■^ ^ 9. Hysteropterum difforme. {^/.^l^ '^*'^' 



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Tuscany. 



<5 Issus difformis, Spin. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. viii. 364, 16. 

 " *^Cyphopteruiu, Amyot^ Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 2me Serie, v. 176, 406. 



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10. Hysteropterum dorsale, Mas. 



Flavum, breve, latum ; thorax fulvus,Jlavo hivittatxis ; abdomen fus- 

 cum,Jlavofasciatum, subtus fulvum ; pedes fulvi ; alee antic(B 

 fulvcB, flavo et fusco fasciata, apice latce truncate. 



Body yellow, short and broad : a brown long^itudinal middle 

 stripe on the head and chest and a row of brown dots on each side : 

 head full half the breadth of the fore-wiug near the base : crown 

 short and broad, slightly convex in front, equally concave behind, its 

 breadth about four times its length : fore part of the front scutcheon- 

 shaped, with a row of brown spots along each side, its length much 

 exceeding its breadth ; epistoma tapering, much shorter and nar- 

 rower than the front, mottled with brown on each side: mouth 

 yellow : fore-chest very convex in front, equally concave behind, 

 much longer than the head: middle-chest tawny, much longer than 

 the fore-chest, very convex in front, straight along the hind border, 

 with two yellow stripes on each side : abdomen obconical, a little 

 shorter than the chest, brown above, tawny beneath ; hind borders of 

 the segments yellow : legs tawny, grooved : fore-wings dull tawny, 

 nearly triangular, very convex on the fore border, truncate at the 

 tips which are very broad ; a short irregular and interrupted yellow 

 band in the disk ; nearer the tip a brown band proceeds from the 

 fore border to the disk, and there bends to the tip ; veins tawny : 

 hind-wings wanting? Length of the body Hi lines; of the wings 

 4 lines. 



a. New Holland. Presented by the Haslar Hospital. 



