390 LIST OF HOMOPTEROUS INSECTS. 



the hind border, its breadth about six times its length ; front large, 

 nearly flat, broader than long, slightly rugulose, surrounded by a 

 rim within which is a semicircular ridge whose euds disappear on 

 approaching the epistoma, the latter is pitchy : fore-chest longer 

 than the crown, very convex in front, very slightly concave on the 

 hind border: middle-chest nearly triangular: hind-chest partly 

 luteous : abdomen black, obconical, a little longer than the chest, 

 luteous at the base and on the hind border of each segment : sexual 

 apparatus like that previously described : legs ferruginous, broad ; 

 their ridges bristly ; a stout spine on each hind-hip ; hind-shanks 

 aiTued with three long spines : fore-wings bright ferruginous, with a 

 glaucous tinge which is most prevalent beneath, brown towards the 

 tips which are black ; near them is a cross row of white dots ; fore 

 border adorned with three black spots, and beyond them with a white 

 spot ; a more indistinct black spot on the hind border ; a broad tawny 

 band tinged with white across the middle of the wing ; veins tawny, 

 darker towards the tips ; the usual row of short cross-veins along the 

 fore border : hind- wings and their veins blackish. Length of the 

 body 3 lines ; of the wings 9 lines. 



a. New Holland. From Mr. Lambert's collection. 



^^1. EURYBRACHYS LCRIDA, Fem. 



Picea ; abdominis segmentorum margines posticifulvi ; pedes nigri ; 

 alee anticce ferruginecB, nigro fasciatce, apice nigra albo gut- 

 tatce ; alee pusticce nigree. 



Body pitchy, broad: head as broad as the chest; crown slightly 

 arched, somewhat depressed, striated lengthwise ; its breadth about 

 six times its length : front scutcheon-shaped, broader than long, 

 veiy slightly convex, tuberculate, deeply concave where it joins the 

 epistoma which is rhomboidal, almost smooth, and has a longitu- 

 dinal ridge: fore-chest convex on the fore border, straight behind, 

 transverse, half oval, a little longer than the head : middle-chest 

 with a slight middle ridge, and a ridge along the sides of the 

 angle : abdomen black, longer than the chest, furnished with a large 

 mass of white filaments ; hind borders of the segments tawny : legs 

 black, very broad : hind-shanks armed with three stout teeth : fore- 

 wings ferruginous, slightly tinged with blue ; a curved black band 

 in the middle ; their tips black with two or three white dots and a 

 short somewhat zigzag tawny band ; veins ferruginous : hind-wings 

 black. Length of the body 3^ lines: of the wings 9 lines. 



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