664 LIST OF HOMOPTEKOUS INSECTS. 



on each segment heneath : legs red : membranous part of the fore- 

 wings reddish, adori.ed with seven black spots, which form two in- 

 terrupted slightly curved bands; a few black marks on the disks of 

 some of the areulcls of the reticulated part, which is lurid ; veins 

 red : hind-wings gray, red al the base ; veins brown, red towards 

 the base. Length of the body 4— 5i lines; of the wings 11—13 

 lines. 



44. Ceecopis proxima. 



Picea; caput, sculellum, pectus, abdomen et pedes ferruginea ; 

 al<£ anticie ferruginea, aplce fusca ; aim posticce cinerew. 

 Body pitchy, shining : head ferruginous ; front very convex, 

 transversely furrowed, not keeled : chest thinly and very minutely 

 punctured ; scutcheon and breast ferruginous : abdomen pale ferru- 

 ginous : legs ferruginous : fore-wings pale ferruginous, very mi- 

 nutely punctured ; relienlated part brown : hind-wings gray ; veins 

 brown, tawny at the base. Length of the body 4^ lines; of the 

 wings U lines. 

 a. Java. From the East India Company's collection. 



45. CeKCOPIS COSTALIS. 



Nigra ; caput el thorax luteo fasciata ; pectus Jlavo maculatum ; 



abdomen purpureum, subtus Jlavum maeuiis nigris trivitta- 



tum ; pedes fulvi ; femora et tibia: anticie fvsca ; femora 



subtus fluva; alee antictc fusc<B rufo bifasciata: el univit- 



tatce, Jlavo univittatw. 



Black : head shining ; front adorned with a semicircular lu- 



tenus band, which is prolonged in a conical form to the face ; the 



latter is smooth, very convex, with slight transverse furrows, not 



keeled, yellow along each side: mouth yellow, with a pitchy tip: 



chest dull, very thickly punctured; fore-chest with a luteous band 



along the fore border, and extending on each side to the base of the 



fore-wing; hind border slightly concave: scutcheon lurid on each 



side; breast with large yellow marks along each side: abdomen 



purple, black, with yellow bands al the lip ; under side yellow, with 



three rows of transverse black spots; the side rows on the rim, 



which is very broad: legs tawny; thighs and fore-shanks brown; 



thighs yellow beneath : fore-wings dark brown, with two narrow pale 



red band.s, one at one-third, the other at two-thirds of the length ; 



a yellow stripe extending along the fore border from the base to the 



