GNATHODUS PUNCTATUS. 93 



must have been very hardy to stand the low temperature 

 of such a severe winter. 



The Uve insect is a very interesting and brilhantly 

 coloured object if viewed under a good microscope, 

 with a sufficiently reflected light. 



Inch. Millimetres. 



Expanse 0-34 8-62 



Size of body and wing 0*21 5*50 



Genus XLII.— GNATHODUS, Fieher. 



Fieb., ' Neue Gattungen und Arten in Hemipteren,' 

 p. 504, with details in figure. 



Body long, anteriorly obtuse, but narrow behind. 

 Vertex short, about one fourth the length of the pro- 

 notum. Elytra much longer than the body, overlapping 

 at their apices. " Corio vena post costali in punctis 

 dissoluta, cubitali furcata" (Sahib.). No transverse 

 veins. Limbus large. Third wing-nervure joined to 

 the branch of the second wing-nervure by a short 

 transverse nerve. First wing-nervure not branching 

 to the marginal vein. 



Gnathodus PUNCTATUS, Thwih. Plate LXI., figs. 1 to 1 a. 



Cicada punctata, Thunb. ; Fall. 

 Eupteryx clypeata, Curt. 

 Cicadida -punctata, Zett. 



,, spreta, Zett. 

 Jassuspiinctatus, H.-Schaff. ; Flor ; Marsh. ; Kirschb. ; 



Thoms. 

 Gnathodus punctatus, Fieb. ; Sahib. ; Ferrari ; Edw. 



pt. ii. p. 77. 



Linear, attenuated towards the tail. Opaque 

 yellowish green or ochreous, with greyish white 

 streaks. Vertex very short. Eyes yellow, with pig- 



