LIST OF HOMOPTEROUS INSECTS. 313 
Green, rather slender, here and there with sericeous pubescence, 
Head with a black spot on the vertex, and with a black lanceolate 
streak on the front. Prothorax less rounded in front than in most 
species, with two black discal streaks. Mesothorax with two black 
lateral stripes and with three black discal spots, two in front and 
one hindward. Abdomen with black interrupted bands on the hind 
borders of the segments, and with two black apical streaks; under 
side with three black stripes, the middle one broad. Fore legs 
partly black, their femora and tibie with three spines. Wings 
vitreous ; veins black, green towards the base. Fore wings with the 
costa green to the end of the front arevlet, where it is black; first 
transverse vein very oblique, parted by almost twice its length from 
the second, which is very slightly oblique in the same direction, 
and also straight; third and fourth oblique and straight; third 
much shorter than the fourth, Hind wings with a brownish tinge 
at the tip of the fold. Var. 8.—Luteous with black marks. Fore 
wings with the veins for full half the length from the base, and 
with the costa luteous. Length of the body 7 lines; of the wings 
20 lines. 
a. Petropolis, Rio Janeiro. Presented by J. Gray, Esq. 
6. Rio Janeiro. Presented by the Rev. Hamlet Clark. 
Genus CARINETA, Cat. Hom. p. 249. 
CARINETA DOXIPTERA. 
Viridis, pubescens, subtus testacea; caput postice testaceum ; pro- 
thorax testaceo bimaculatus ; mesothoraw testaceus ; abdominis 
seqmenta fusco marginata, maculis lateralibus rufis ; pedes 
testacet ; femora antica trispinosa ; ale lurido-vitree ; antica 
strigis submarginalibus duplicatis fuscis; postice margine 
exteriore apicali fusco. 
Grass-green, pubescent, testaceous beneath. Hind part of the 
head testaceous. Prothorax with a large testaceous spot on each 
side. Mesothorax mostly testaceous. Abdomen brighter than the 
thorax; segments with a red spot on each side, and with dark 
brown hind borders, Legs testaceous; fore femora with three 
spines. Wings lurid-vitreous; costa and veins black. Fore wings 
with a double brown streak in each marginal areolet; first trans- 
verse vein oblique, slightly curved, parted by more than twice its 
length from the second, which is slightly oblique in the opposite 
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