LIST OF HOMOPTERODS INSECTS. 567 



<^8. Thelia gladiator, Fein. 



Ferruginea ; prothorax cornu rufo, oblique porrecto, nigro margi- 

 nato aj-matus, utrinque apicem versus jiavo sexcarinatus ; alee 

 stibcinei'efE ; alee anticcc basi et ad costam ferrugine(P. 



Ferruginous: head very short, transversely siihfusiform, some- 

 what depressed, mucli narrower than the fore-chest ; a slight ridge 

 extends along it to the face whose hind part is truncate-conical and 

 occupies half the length of the head: eyes very prominent: fore- 

 chest roughly punctured, convex in front, slightly ridged, keeled 

 behind, impressed towards the fore border, armed above the shoulders 

 with a porrect red obliquely ascending much compressed horn ; it 

 has a broad black border on each side, and its length is about 

 thrice its breadth at the base whence it tapers gradually to the tip ; 

 shoulders very obtusely angular, slightly prominent ; hind part ob- 

 lanceolate, extending far beyond the tip of the abdomen, much 

 attenuated towards the tip which is acute and cuiTcd downward ; 

 ridges yellow, six on each side of the ridge of the keel which is 

 very shallow: wings pale gray; fore-wings ferruginous and punc- 

 tured at the base and along part of the fore border, veins ferruginous, 

 very stout ; areolets long and narrow. Length of the body 5 lines ; 

 of the wings 8 lines. 



a. Para, From Mr. Stevens' collection. 



39. Thelia ? Mutilated. 



a. .'* Presented by J. G. Children, Esq. 



O 40. Thelia gibba. 

 Atypa gibba, De Lap. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. i. 221, pi. 6, f. 5, 



^Genus23. HEMIPTYCHA. 



<^Membracis, Fabr., Oliv., Gmel. 

 6 Centrotus, Fabr. 

 Hemiptycha, Germ.., Burm., Amyot et Sew.., Blanch. Fairm. Ann. 

 Soc. Ent. Fr. '2me Serie^ iv. 312. 



