Mr. Westwood on the Family Fulgoridse. 143 



Species 15. Fulgora flammea. 



F. " fronte rostrata adscendente, tereti, truncata; tota superius sordide ferru- 

 gineo-cinerascens ; elytra ad apices a pagina superiore punctis obscuri- 

 oribus, tota striae obliquse secant ut in serpentum cute." Linn. Am. Acad. 

 " Alae inferiores fuscee." Linn. Syst. Nat. " Minor Cicada Candelaria." 



" Habitat ? De Geer." Linn. Amoen. Acad. " In America," Linn. Syst. 



Nat. " In America meridionali," Fabr. 



Syn. Fulgora flammea. Linn. Amoen. Acad. vi. 399. 39. Syst. Nat. ii. 704. 7- 

 Fahr. Ent. Syst. iv. 3. 8. Syst. Rhyng. p. 3. (Excl. Syn. Stollii ?) 



Obs. It is perhaps impossible to determine precisely this species at the present 

 day. Linnaeus, indeed, says it is smaller than the common Chinese species, 

 and in the Systema Naturce he, as well as Fabricius subsequently, gives 

 America as the habitat ; so that it cannot be Fulgora tenebrosa, as cited 

 by the latter author, which is as large as Candelaria, and an inhabitant 

 of Africa. On the other hand, the description of the spotting of the 

 hemelytra and the colouring of the hind wings, together with the 

 circumstance that Linnaeus refers to De Geer's collection for the species, 

 that author having subsequently figured an insect of unknown locality 

 (and being in all probability the identical specimen examined by Lin- 

 naeus,) agreeing with Fulgora tenebrosa, seem to prove that the Linnaean 

 F. Jlammea is identical with the Fabrician F. tenebrosa. Olivier {Enc. 

 Mdth. vi. 170.) is certainly in error in giving Stoll's fig. 29. (which is the 

 Rapliirhimis fasciatus,) as this insect. 



Species 16. Fulgora punctata. 



F. capite rostrato corporis ferfe longitudine, recto, apice truncate ; grisea, 

 nigro-punctata ; elytris griseo-hyalinis, punctis numerosis nigris adspersis ; 

 alis albis venis fuscis ; abdomine griseo. 



Habitat in Guinea. 



Syn. Fulgora punctata. Oliv. Enc. Mdth. vi. 569. Stoll, Cigal. Jig. 28. 

 Germar. in Thoris Arch. ii. 2. 47- (Flata p.) 



Praecedente minor et gracilior. 



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