LIST OF HOMOPTEROUS INSECTS. 527 



'^. Ceresa brunnicornis. 



Ceresa brunnicornis, Faimi. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 2me Serie, iv. 

 285, 9. 

 Cl^Smilia brunnicornis, Germ. Silb, Rev. Ent. iii. 235, 7. 



Buenos Ayres. 



— 10. Ceresa axillaris. 



Ji^eresa axillaris, Fairm. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 2me Serie, iv. 285, 10. 

 'Emilia axillaris, Germ. Silb. Rev. Ent. iii. 235, 8. 



Brazil. 



^- 11. Ceresa diceros. 



Ceresa diceros, Fairm. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 2me Serie, iv. 285, 11. 

 '^Membracis diceros. Say, Narr. Exp. App. Journ. Acad. Nat. Soc. 

 ^ Philad. 



- Smilia diceros, Germ. Silb. Rev. Ent. iii. 237, 12. 

 <^ Ceresa postfasciata, Amyot et Serv. Hist. Nat Hem. 540, 2. pi. 10. 

 f. 3. 



a — e. United States. Presented by E. Doubleday, Esq. 

 /. Nova Scotia. Presented by J. G. Children, Esq. 

 g — I. Nova Scotia. From Lieut. Redman's collection. 



•^12. Ceresa basalis, Mas. 



Nigra, pilosa ; caput fulvum nigro trimaculatum ; prothorax ful- 

 vus, nigro quadrimaculatus ; pedes fulvi ; femora nigro fas- 

 data ; alee anticcB sublimpidce, basijlavce, apice subfulvce. 



Black, hairy : head tawny, hairy, mgulose, with three black 

 spots ; one on each side by the eye ; the third in front : eyes pro- 

 minent: fore-chest tawny, thickly punctured, extending beyond 

 the abdomen, haiiy in front, with a black spot on each side of the 

 fore border, rising pei-peudicularly for some height above the head, 

 and then forming across a nearly right angle, behind which is a 

 triangular flat compartment, and on each side a short acute horn ; 

 the compartment formed by the outer side of each horn is triangular, 

 slightly concave, with a black disk ; hind part of fore-chest keeled, 

 much compressed, slightly convex, very slender towards the tip, 

 which is black and acute : abdomen obconical ; lower appendage at 



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