240 LIST OF HOMOPTEROUS INSECTS. 
Piceous, mostly luteous beneath. Head above short-conical, 
with a shallow excavation, which widens in front; disk of the front 
flat, with a slight middle ridge, and with slightly elevated borders ; 
a black band where it joins the face. Thorax with very numerous 
testaceous points, with three testaceous dots in front, and with 
a testaceous hind border. Fore wings with ten or twelve testaceous 
dots, five of which form a slight oblique streak near the base. 
Hind wings blackish. Length of the body 5 lines ; of the wings 8 
lines. 
a. Mexico. From M. Sallé’s collection. 
AULACIZES LURIDESCENS, 
Fem. Picea, subtus pallide flava ; caput nigrum, conicum, flavo 
sexnotatum, lituris subtus lateralibus flavis ; thorax maculis 
quatuor anticis liturisque posterioribus flavis ; scutellum apice 
flavum ; pectus nigro notatum ; abdomen supra lurido-rufum, 
fascia subtus postica nigra, vaginis albidis apice nigris; ale 
antice strigis plurimis guttisque confluentibus pallide flavis ; 
postice lurido-vitree. 
Female. Piceous, pale yellow beneath. Head black, conical, 
slightly depressed above, where there are four yellow marks hind- 
ward and two in front; under side with the disk slightly concave, 
and with various yellow marks on each side. Thorax with four yel- 
low spots, forming a band in front, and some yellow marks between 
them and the hind border; scutellum with a pale yellow tip. 
Pectus with some black marks on each side. Abdomen lurid-red 
above; under side with a black band at the base of the vagine, 
which are whitish, with black tips. Fore wings with numerous 
fe yellow streaks and confluent dots, some of the former parallel. 
ind wings lurid-vitreous. Length of the body 4} lines; of the 
wings 9 lines. 
a, Venezuela. From Mr. Birschell’s collection. 
Genus DIESTOSTEMMA, Cat. Hom. 798. 
DirsrostEMMA NIGROPUNCTATA, 
Tettigonia nigropunctata, Sign. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 38me Sér. iii. 
527, 325, ~ 
Mexico. 
