440 LIST OF HOMOPTEEOUS INSECTS. 



O 4. COLOBESTHES COROMANDELICA. 



^ Poeciloptera coromandelica, Spin. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. viii. 440, 15. 

 Coromandel. 



^ 5. CoLOBESTHES PUSTULATA. 



J Cicada pustulata, Donovan, Ins. New Holland, pi. 9. 

 New Holland. 



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O 6. CoLOBESTHES ADSCENDENS? 



Flata adsceiidens ? Fa6r. *S'ys^ Rhyn. 46, 5. 



a. Ashanti. From the Wesleyan Missionary Society's collection. 



^ P 7. CoLOBESTHEs coNSPEESA, Mas ct Fein. 



Fulva ; prothorax carinatus ; mesothorax tricarinatus , pedes fulvi ; 

 al(B antic(B cervince, falcatce, nigra conspersce ; ala posticce 

 alhce. 



Body tawny : head narrower than the chest ; crown very short, 

 Straight, longer on each side than in the raiddle ; front conical above ; 

 fore part paler, slightly convex, rounded on each side, not narrower 

 towards the epistoma, bordered by a rim, slightly concave where it 

 joins the epistoma, the latter is lanceolate ; side part slightly con- 

 cave, surrounding the eye and the antenna : fore-chest concave on 

 the hind border, truncate-conical in front, bordered by a slight rim, 

 and having a middle ridge : middle-chest much more than twice the 

 length of the fore-chest, with three ridges, the side pair slightly 

 curved and inclosing aflat spindle-shaped compartment: abdomen 

 obconical, longer than the chest, powdered with white : legs pale 

 tawny: wings ample: fore-wings pale fawn-colour, sprinkled with 

 black w^hich is chiefly on the cross-veins, convex on the fore border, 

 truncate at a right angle along the tip, concave on the hind border 

 at whose tip they are produced into an acute angle or hook ; veins 

 pale tawny ; longitudinal veins and cross-veins very numerous ; along 

 the fore border a row of oblique rather long cross-veins which are 

 mostly forked and are shorter towards the tip : hind-wings milk 

 white. Length of the body 5 — 7 lines; of the wings 18 — 22 lines 



a. East India. From Archdeacon Clerk's collection. 



h. Assam. From Mr. Warwick's collection. 



c. Silhet. From the Rev. J. Stainforth's collection. 



