128 MK. F. WALKEE ON HOMOPTEEA 



tawny, shining, minutely speckled with yellow ; a row of elongated 

 black dots along the costa and along the exterior border, and a ser- 

 pentine black line in the disk near the tip; veins reddish. Hind 

 wings blackish cinereous ; veins black. Length of the body 6 lines, 

 of the wings 14 lines. 

 Hub. Ceram. 



Section 4. 



Coi*pus robustum. Caput compressum, lateribus subangulatis ; vertex 

 subcornutus ; frons qninquecarinata, antice latescens ; facies non 

 earinata. Pedes robusti, sulcati. Alae antics venis nonnuUis trans- 

 versis, linea submarginali e venis transversis bene determinata. 



Body stout. Head compressed, with prominent borders, which form a 

 slightly obtuse angle on each side between the front and the face ; 

 vertex twice as long as broad, forming with the contiguous middle 

 part of the front a short horn ; front nearly twice or thrice as long 

 as broad, widening from the vertex, with five keels, of which the 

 inner pair are abbreviated towards the face ; face not keeled. Tliorax 

 like that of Issus in structure. Legs stout ; femora and tibia; fur- 

 rowed. Fore wings with some irregular transverse veins; submar- 

 ginal line of transverse veins and costal transverse veins regular. 



116. Hysteropterum invarium. Foem. Testaceura, fusco con- 

 spersum, fronte antica fusca testaceo conspersa, facie annulo nigro 

 fusiformi, tarsis fuscis ; alis anticis punctis marginalibus elongatis 

 albidis, puncto subapicali nigro ; alis posticis nigricanti-cinereis. 



Female. Testaceous, brown-speckled. Front towards the face brown, 

 with testaceous speckles ; face with a black fusiform ringlet. Tarsi 

 brown. Fore wings with elongated whitish points along the costa 

 and along the exterior border ; a black point on the disk near the tip 

 of the costa. Hind wings blackish cinereous. Length of the body 

 4^ lines, of the wings 9 lines. 



Hab. Mysol. 



This species very closely resembles the preceding one. 



117. Hysterotterum vittatum. Fcem. Tcstaceum, capitis late- 

 ribus fusco trifasciatis, fronte et facie disco fuscis testaceo conspersis, 

 vertice et prothorace albido-univittatis, thorace fuscescente, abdo- 

 minis disco ventrali nigro testaceo-consperso, pedibus fusco ni- 

 groque conspersis ; alis anticis punctis nonnullis nigris, vitta postica 

 fusca e lineis duabus testaceis interrupta; alis posticis nigricanti- 

 cinereis. 



Female. Testaceous. Head on each side with three brown bands; 

 front and disk of the face brown, with testaceous speckles ; vertex 

 and prothorax with a whitish stripe. Thorax mostly brownish. 

 Disk of the abdomen beneath black, testaceous-speckled. Legs 



