504 LIST OF HOMOPTEROUS INSECTS. 



2. OXYRHACHIS SUBJECTA. 



Nigra, albo-pubescens ; caput antice ferrugineum ; prothoracis 

 carina ferruginea ; pedes ruji ; tihice dilatatce ; alee limpidcB ; 

 alee anticce basi fidvce, marginibus postids fusco maculatcB. 



Nearly allied to the preceding species, but is smaller ; the dorsal 

 horns are shorter in proportion and less diverging ; the hind appen- 

 dage is more inclined upward and not serrated beneath. Black, 

 clothed with whitish down : head transverse, subquadrate, flat, 

 slightly impressed, finely punctured, not much broader than long, a 

 little narrower than the fore-chest between the shoulders, truncated 

 and ferruginous in front : fore-chest rather high in front, rather 

 roughly punctured, rising almost vertically from the head, with a 

 ferruginous ridge ; shoulders rounded, not prominent; horns above 

 very broad, prismatic, conical, diverging, ascending, hardly curved 

 downward ; hind side much shorter than either of the other sides ; 

 length of the horns rather less than the breadth of the chest be- 

 tween them ; hind appendage mostly ferruginous, extending very 

 far beyond the tip of the abdomen, inclined upward and keeled 

 beneath but not serrated from the middle to the tip: breast and 

 abdomen clothed with white down : legs red ; shanks widened : 

 wings colourless ; fore-wings tawny and punctured at the base, with 

 a brown spot on the angle of the hind border ; veins stout, ferrugi- 

 nous ; four discoidal areolets. Length of the body 3 lines ; of the 

 wings 5i lines. 



a. East Indies. 



6^3. OXYRHACHIS FURCICORNIS .^ MaS. 



Oxyrhachis furcicornis ? Germ. Silb. Rev. Ent. iii. 232, 2. Fairm. 

 Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 2me Serie, iv. 268, 2. 



Feiyugineo-rufa ; prothoracis cornu posticum piceuin ; pectus piceo 

 varium ; tibia dilatatce; alee limpidee ; alee anticce basifulvee. 



Ferruginous-red, clothed with tawny down: head transverse, 

 subquadrate, flat, finely punctured, a little narrower than the fore- 

 chest between the shoulders, mostly black, truncated in front : fore- 

 chest ridged, moderately high in front, rather roughly punctured ; 

 rhoulders rounded, not prominent ; horns above pitchy, conical, 

 spismatic, ascending, diverging, slightly inclined forward ; hind side 

 narrower than either of the other sides ; chest very narrow between 

 the horns, not more than one-third of their length ; hind appendage 



