418 LIST OF HOMOPTEROUS INSECTS. 



dinal veins Dot numerous; cross-veins rather numerous in the dislc ; 

 fore border widened, along it a row of slightly oblique nearly parallel 

 cross-veins : hind border widened and tuberculate near the base : 

 hind-wings dark gray ; veins black. Length of the body 2^ lines ; 

 of the wings 7 lines. 



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' /- ^ -^ 25. Flatoides decoeus, Mas. 



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Fulvus ; vertex tricarinatus ; frons Jlava, fulvo bicarinata : pro- 

 thorax et mesothorax tricarinati, hujus discus niger ; meta- 

 thorax Jlavus ; pectus alhidum ; abdomen basi viride, supra 

 fusco varium; pedes virides : tarsi fulvi ; alee anticce fuscce^ 

 fulvo varies ; macula ad costam magna trigona limpida ; alee 

 posticce fusccB basi limpidcE. 

 Body tawny : head much narrower than the chest ; crown much 

 longer than broad, with three ridges which are partly brown ; an 

 oblique brown stripe on each side of the low middle ridge ; the high 

 side ridges united and forming an angle in front ; front pale yellow, 

 very slightly increasing in breadth till near the epistoma where it is 

 rounded and much dilated ; its two tawny ridges are connected by a 

 single ridge with the side ridges of the crown, and thence slightly 

 diverge to the epistoma, which is pale yellow and lanceolate: fore- 

 chest shorter than the crown ; its breadth more than four times its 

 length ; the middle of its disk occupied by three ridges which are 

 united in front and include a brown divided conical compartment: 

 middle-chest more than twice the length of the ibre-chest, with three 

 ridges ; the side ridges diverging much towards the hind border ; 

 disk black: hind-chest yellow ; breast whitish : abdomen obconical, 

 not longer than the chest, partly brown above, green at the base : 

 legs pale green ; feet tawny; hind-shanks armed beneath with two 

 spines : fore-wings brown, varied with tawny, and having in the 

 middle a very large triangular colourless spot which rests on the fore 

 border, and occupies about one-fourth of the surface ; veins pale 

 yellow, very numerous towards the tips ; a row of short oblique 

 parallel cross-veins along the fore border: hind-wings brown, colour- 

 less towards the base ; veins blackish. Length of the body 2 lines ; 

 of the wings 8 lines. 



