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LIST OF HOMOPTEROUS INSECTS. 391 



22. EURYBRACBYS RUBICUNDA, MaS. 



Picea, ferrugineo vana ; pectus^ metathorax et abdomen rufa ; 

 pedes nigri ; femora postica rufa; tihice posticce ferruginece ; 

 alee anticcB ferraginecD^ nigro marginatce, apice maculis duabus 

 limpidis orrjc^.ie ; alcB posticcB subnigrce^ apice albo unima- 

 culatce. 



Body broad, veiy short, pitchy varied with dark ferruginous : 

 head as broad as the chest ; crown very slightly arched, with a slight 

 longitudinal ridge and with a rim on the border ; its breadth more 

 than six times its length; front scutcheon-shaped, slightly rugulose, 

 bordered by a rim, slightly concave where it joins the epistoma ; its 

 breadth almost twice its lengdi ; epistoma short, nearly triangular : 

 mouth ferruginous : middle-chest much longer than the fore-chest, 

 almost triangular, with two oblique ridges ; hinder sides slightly 

 concave: breast, hind-chest and abdomen bright red, the latter ob- 

 conical, a little longer than the chest; laminag pale straw-colour, 

 powdered with white : legs black, hind-thighs red with black tips ; 

 hind-shanks dark ferruginous, armed with three long stout spines : 

 fore-wings ferruginous, black along the fore border and at the tips 

 and partly along the hind border; a few ferruginous dots in the 

 black part ; a tawny spot on the hind border and two large colour- 

 less spots near the tip which is bristly ; veins ferruginous, black to- 

 wards the tips : hind-wings blackish with a white spot near the tip of 

 the fore border; veins black. Length of the body 2^ lines ; of the 

 wings 8 lines. 



a. Safidy Cape, New Holland. Presented by the Earl of Derby. 



{l I^Q 23. EURYBRACHTS L^TA. 



Eurybrachys laeta, White, Eyres Exped. Austral. 1. Appendix 433, 

 pi. 4, f. 3. 



a. New Holland. Presented by the Entomological Club. 



v/'v24. Eurybrachys subfasciata, Mas et Fem. 



Testacea, conspersa ; pedes rufi ; femora postica Jlava ; alee anticcB 

 fulvo-ferruginecs, apice nigro maculate ; alts posticce sublim- 

 pid(B aut subfuscce, apice subnigrcB albo fasciata. 



Body short, broad, testaceous, sprinkled with darker colour: 

 head as broad as the chest ; crown veiy slightly arched, with an in- 



