410 LIST OF HOMOPTEROUS INSECTS. 



cross-ridge to the disk and there ceases; epistoma lanceolate, not 

 ridged : fore-chest slightly arched ; its breadth full four times its 

 length : middle-chest luteous, not ridged, full five times the length 

 of the fore-chest: abdomen sometimes whitish beneath, obconical, 

 not longer than the chest: legs buff, tinged with white: fore-wings 

 brown, tinged with white beneath, adorned with a very large oblique 

 colourless spot which extends across the disk, having as it were a 

 very broad border along their tips ; fore border convex near the base, 

 beyond which there is a row of almost upright, parallel cross-veins ; 

 longitudinal veins very numerous ; cross-veins nut numerous ; hind- 

 wings gray, colonrless towards the base and along part of the fore 

 border ; veins brown, pale on the colourless part. Length of the body 

 3 lines ; of the wings 10 lines. 



a, b. Para. From Mr. Stevens' collection. 



^ D 12. Flatoides stigma, Mas et Fem. 



Ferrugineus ; frons tricarinatus, transverse unicarinatus ; epistoma 

 fulviim, carinatum ; prothorax carinaius ; mesothorax quinque- 

 carinatus ; ahdoinen testaceum ; pedes fulvi ; alee sat lata ; al(S 

 anticce fusccB aut testacecs, macula trigona sublimpida ad costam 

 ornat(S ; fasciis obliquis fulvis etfuscis basi notata. 



Body ferruginous : head as broad as the chest ; crown surrounded 

 by a rim, very slightly arched ; its length not one-eighth of its 

 breadth ; front broad, rounded on each side, narrower near the epis- 

 toma, slightly concave at the junction, surrounded by a rim, having 

 a middle ridge which is shortened towards the epistoma, and two side 

 ridges which are slightly curved and united by a cross-ridge near the 

 epistoma ; the latter is tawny and lanceolate with a middle ridge : 

 fore-chest with a middle ridge, slightly arched, about twice the length 

 of the crown: middle-chest with five ridges; inner pair curved, 

 united in front and behind, and inclosing a somewhat flat almost 

 elliptical compartment ; outer pair very short, not extending far from 

 the fore border: abdomen testaceous, obconical, not longer than the 

 chest: legs tawny: wings rather large; fore-wings brown, some- 

 times testaceous, with brown tips ; a somewhat triangular, almost 

 colourless spot on the fore border of the fore-wing ; between it and 

 the base is a row of very short oblique alternately brown and tawny 

 bands : veins brown, pale on the spot ; longitudinal veins very nu- 

 merous ; cross-veins not numerous ; a few almost upright slightly 

 curved cross-veins along the fore border which is slightly convex. 

 Length of the body 2i lines : of the wings 9 lines.. 



a—d. ? 



