454 LIST OF HOMOPTEROUS INSECTS, 



epistoraa, slightly rounded on each side, hovdered hy a rim, concave 

 where it joins the epistoma, with three ridges, the side pair curved 

 and indistinct ; the compartments on each side oval and concave ; 

 epistoma triangular, very slightly convex : fore-chest bordered with 

 green, almost conical in front, slightly concave behind, with a middle 

 ridge ; its length on each side less than half of that in the middle : 

 middle-chest with a slight ridge, about four times the length of the 

 fore-chest ; legs'pale luteous; feet slightly ferruginous: wings broad : 

 fore-wings pale green, adorned with several ferruginous spots and 

 dots whose disks are mostly brown, truncated at the tips which form 

 right angles wiih the hind borders, the latter are dilated and slightly 

 tuberculate towards the base ; fore border convex, along it a row of 

 parallel oblique cross-veins which are shorter and irregular towards 

 the tip ; veins pale green; longitudinal and cross-veins very nume- 

 rous ; hind-wings white. Length of the body 3i lines ; of the wings 

 11 lines. 



a. Africa. 



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^ 39. P(ECILOPTERA OCELLATA? MaS. 



Lutea ; caput perbreve ; prothorax carinattis ; mesothorax vindi 

 varius ; pedes jiavi , al(B anticce virides, ferrugineo maculatce^ 

 apice truncaicB, margine postico vix tuberculata ; alee posticcB 

 alhce. 



Cicada ocellata? Fahr. Ent. Syst. iv. 27, 2. 

 Flata ocellata ? Fahr. Syst. Rhyn. 49, 8. 



Nearly allied to P. stellaris but smaller, and with fewer and 

 smaller spots on the fore-wings. Body pale luteous : head very 

 short ; crown short, arched, bordered by a rim ; front flat, a little 

 broader towards the epistoma, slightly rounded on each side, bordered 

 by a rim, hardly concave where it joins the epistoma, with three 

 ridges, the side pair indistinct ; the compartment on each side oval 

 and concave : epistoma triangular, very slightly convex : fore-chest 

 almost conical in front, slightly concave behind, with a nnddle vidge ; 

 its length on each side more than half of that in the middle : middle- 

 chest tinged with green, more than three times the length of the 

 fore-chest : abdomen obconical, a little longer than the chest ; ap- 

 pendages large, of the usual form : legs pale yellow : wings broad: 

 fore-wings pale green, tinged with white beneath, adorned with 

 several ferruginous dots whose disks are brown, truncated at the tips 

 which form right angles with the hind borders, the latter are dilated 

 but hardly tuberculated towards the base ; fore border convex, along 

 it a row of parallel oblique cross-veins which decrease in length from 



