376 LIST OF HOMOPTEROUS INSECTS. 



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11. Hysteropterum irroratum, Mas. 



Fulvum, breve, latum; thorax Jlavo guttatus ; abdomen fusco gut- 

 tatum ; pedes fulvi ; alcB anticce subnigrce, maculis limpidis 

 ornatce. 



Body tawny, short and broad: head very short, much broader 

 than the fore-winji;' near the base; crown extremely short, nearly 

 straight in front, concave on the hind border, its breadth full eight 

 times its length : front large, scutcheon-shaped, speckled with yellow, 

 having a slight rim along its border and a slight longitudinal middle 

 ridge : its length much exceeding its breadth, deeply notched where 

 it joins the epistoma, the latter is small and rhomboidal : mouth 

 mostly brown : eyes prominent : chest speckled with yellow, slightly 

 concave behind, more convex in front, its length not one-fourth of 

 its breadth : middle-chest nearly triangular, much longer than the 

 fore-chest, with a slight ridge on each side : abdomen obconical, 

 speckled with brown, a little longer than the chest: legs tawny, 

 slightly grooved ; hind-shanks armed with four spines: fore-wings 

 blackish, nearly straight on the fore border, very convex on the hind 

 border, adorned with many colourless spots along the fore borders 

 and at the tips ; veins tawny : hind-wings wanting. Length of the 

 body 2 lines ; of the wings 4 lines. 



a. Port Natal. From M. Gueinzius' collection. 



O 12. Hysteropterum punctiferum, Mas. ? 



Fulvtan, breve, latum ; thorax fusco quadrivittatus ; abdomen fus- 

 cum, fulvo fasciatum ; pedes fulvi, fusco varii ; ales anticce 

 fulvce, fusco guttata. 



Body tawny, short, broad, doited with brown : head short and 

 broad, much more than half the breadth of the fore-wing near the 

 base ; crown slightly depressed, nearly straight in front and behind ; 

 its breadth about thrice its length ; front large, with three ridges, 

 the side pair curved and inclosing a nearly elliptical area ; its length 

 slightly exceeding its breadth ; epistoma nearly heart-shaped, with a 

 slight middle ridge, and with a yellow spot on each side : mouth 

 tawny, partly yellow : fore-chest as long as the crown, nearly straight 

 behind, convex on the fore border : middle-chest triangular, longer 

 than the fore-chest, adorned with four brown stripes which widen 

 towards the hind border : abdomen obconical, brown, not longer than 

 the chest; hind borders of the segments tawny: legs lawny, marked 

 with brown, slightly grooved ; hind-shanks armed with two spines : 



