508 LIST OF HOMOPTEEOUS INSECTS. 



minent ; horns above much compressed, very broad, especially in 

 the middle, slightly inclined forward, very slightly diverging, indis- 

 tinctly ridged, in length full twice the breadth at the base : legs 

 clothed with white hairs ; shanks hardly widened : wings colourless ; 

 fore- wings at the base ferruginous with a whitish band ; veins ferru- 

 ginous ; four discoidal almost rhomboidal areolets. Length of the 

 body 4 lines ; of the wings 9 lines. 



TlO. OXYEHACHIS PAEALLELA, Fcm. 



Picea ; pedes ferruginei ; tibice sat latce ; alee anticce suhfulvce^ 

 hasijlavce ; alee posticce limpidce. 



Pitchy, clothed with tawny down : head transverse, flat, very 

 little broader than long, finely punctured, a little narrower than the 

 fore-chest between the shoulders, truncate in front ; hind part of the 

 face obconical, not so long as the head behind it : fore-chest roughly 

 punctured, low, very slightly ridged, rising vertically from the head; 

 shoulders rounded, hardly prominent; horns above porrect, pris- 

 matic, slightly ascending, conical, almost parallel ; their length 

 equal to about thrice the breadth of the chest between them ; hind 

 appendage keeled, extending far beyond the tip of the abdomen, 

 very slightly tapering from the base to the tip, slightly inclined up- 

 wards towards the tip which is conical : legs ferruginous ; shanks 

 rather broad : fore-wings narrow, lanceolate, slightly taw^ny, punc- 

 tured and partly yellow at the base ; veins ferruginous ; cross-veins 

 pitchy: hind-wings colourless. Length of the body 3^ lines; of 

 the wings 7 lines. 



a. Port Natal. From Dr. Krauss' collection. 



^1. OxYEHACHIS SUBEEECTA, MaS. 



Picea, albo-pubescens ; pedes ferruginei ; femora nigra ; tibice sub - 

 dilatatce ; alee anticce subluridcB, basifulvce et punctatce. 



Nearly allied to O. parallelus, but the lateral horns diverge 

 slightly, and are hardly inclined forward. Pitchy, clothed with 

 whitish down : head transverse, flat, finely punctured, not much 

 broader than long, truncate in front, very little narrower than the 

 fore-chest between the shoulders ; face obconical, occupying less 

 than half the length of the head : fore-chest roughly punctured, 

 rather high jn front, rising almost vertically from the head ; horns 

 above stout, prismatic, conical, slightly diverging and very slighily 

 inclined forward ; their length slightly exceeding the space between 



