386 LIST OF HOMOPTEROUS INSECTS. 



the inner pair are the longest and between them is the twelfth which 

 is long and spindle-shaped : legs red, stout, furrowed ; hind-shanks 

 armed with slout spines : fore- wings nearly colourless, slightly tinged 

 with yellow : more than one-third of the surface from the base is 

 yellowish-brown, tinged here and there with black, and includes a 

 colourless spot; towards the tip the wing is also yellowish-brown 

 with the exception of two colourless spots; the reticulated part 

 occupying about a third of the length ; veins tawny ; hind-wings 

 colourless, brown towards tlie tips and along the hind border. Length 

 of the body 6 lines ; of the wings 16 lines. 



a. Port Essington. From Mr. Gould's collection. 



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E'URTBRACHYS RUBIGINEA, Fcm. 



Ferruginea maculis obscurioHbus ; metathorax fulvus^jiavo variiis ; 

 abdomen fulvum^jlavo et fusco fasciatum ; pedes rufi ; ales anticce 

 rufo-fulvcB, nigro trimaculatce, apice subfusccB maculisque fiavis 

 et limpidis ornatce ; al(B posticce Jlavo aut fulvo-limpidce, apice 

 fusc(S, margine postico albidcB. 



Body feiruginous, indistinctly marked with darker colour ; head 

 as broad as the chest ; crown very short, surrounded by a very slight 

 ridge, slightly convex in front; face finely rugulose, very broad, sur- 

 rounded by a slight ridge, scutcheon-shaped, forming an angle on 

 each side, and having on the middle of its fore border a concavity 

 %vhere it joins the epistoma : mouth ferruginous, reaching the hind- 

 hips: shield very short ; concave along the hind border : hind-chest 

 tawny, partly yellow, ridged transversely : abdomen tawny, obconical, 

 a little longer than the chest, adorned with indistinct yellow and 

 brown bands, thickly clothed at the tip with white filaments : legs 

 red, stout, clothed with very short black hairs ; hind-shanks armed 

 with stout spines : fore-wings tawny, tinged with pale brown in the 

 reticulated part where there are a few pale yellow and colourless ir- 

 regular spots ; a black spot on the hind border near the tip, and one 

 or two smaller black spots in the disk nearer the base ; veins red, 

 bordered also with red in the basal region which occupies much more 

 than half the length of the wing, and at a distance appears wholly 

 red : hind-wings transparent, tinged with yellow or tawny, brown 

 towards the tip, whitish along the hind border; veins ferruginous. 

 Length of the body bl — 6 lines ; of the wings 14 — 15 lines. 



a. N«w Holland. Presented by the Haslar Hospital. 



