460 LIST OF HOMOPTEROUS INSECTS. 



equal length : hind-wings white. Length of the body 2^ lines ; of 

 the wings 2 lines. ^ ; 



a. St. John's Bluff, East Florida. Presented by E. Doubleday, Esq. 



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^ 47. PCECILOPTERA QUADRATA. 



Viridi-fiava ; caput breve viridi subreticulata ; thorax carinatus ; 

 abdomen albo-flavum, cristatum ; pedes albo-flavi; tibice tarsi- 

 que anteriora ferruginea ; alee anticce virides, apice fusco gut- 

 tatce, vix rotundatce ; al(B posticce albidce. 



Body pale yellow, tinged witli green : head short, slightly re- 

 ticulated with green ; crown concealed or forming one segment with 

 the front, a middle ridge along the whole length ; upper part mode- 

 rately long, with slight short ridge and a tubercle on each side ; fore 

 part convex, rounded on each side, bordered by a rim, very concave 

 where it joins the e]>istoma, broader tlum long ; epistoma very slightly 

 convex, with oblique stripes on each side: lip of the mouth brown : 

 eyes very prominent : fore-chest as long as the head, very slightly 

 concave behind, truncate-conical in front, with a middle ridge, its 

 length on each side full half of that in the middle: middle-chest 

 with a ridge, more than four times the length of the fore-chest, with 

 a rim towards the tip where it is lengthened and pointed : abdomen 

 whitish-yellow, obconical, crested, a little longer than the chest: legs 

 yellowish- white ; anterior tibiag and tarsi ferruginous : wings broad: 

 fore-wings green, hardly rounded at the tips along which there is a 

 row of dark brown linear dots, almost angular at thetii)S of the hind 

 borders; veins green; longitudinal veins few; cross-veins very nu- 

 merous, irregular, extending over the whole surface ; fore border 

 very convex, without a row of parallel cross-veins: hind-wings 

 whitish. Length of the body 3 lines; of the wings 12 lines. 



a. Jamaica. From Mr. Gosse's colleoiion. 



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48. PCECILOPTERA ACUMINATA. 



Viridi-Jlava ; caput trigonum, acutum, subascendens ; mesothorax 

 tricarinaius ; pedes Jlavi; aim anlicce virides, apice truncatcB, 

 margine pnslicu tuberculatce ; alee poslicce a/bidee. ^ 



Body pale greenish-yellow : head triangular, pointed, slightly 

 ascending ; crown a little broader than long, bordered by a rim, with 

 a middle ridge ; fnmt flat, widening towards the ejtistoma, slightly 

 rounded on each side, bordered by a rim, much longer than broad, 

 very slightly concave where it joins the epistoma, with five lidges, 



