LIST OF HOMOPTEnOUS IN6ECTS. 



Genus 5. SPHENORHINA. 



Sphenorhina, Amijot el Sero. Hist. Nat. Him. 562, 464. 

 Cicadii, p., Linn., Deg. 



Cercopis, p., Fabr., Germ., St. Faro, et Serv., Burm., Blanch.. 

 Guir. 



1. Sphenorhina linkolata. 



Sphenorhina lineolata, Amyot et Serv. Hist. Nat. Him. 563, 1, nl 

 10, f. 7. 



S. America ? 



2. SPRENORHrNA MARQINATA. 



Cercopis marginata, Fabr. Ent. Syst. iv. 48, 2. Syst. Rhyn. 90, 10. 

 a. Brazil. 



3. Sphenorhina nunvARiA. 



Nigra, rufo viltata et marginata ; abdominis dorsum rufum ; pedes 

 rufi, femnribus basi tarsisque nigris ; al(e anticx fuscte, rufo 

 biviltala, nigra semi-marginatce. 

 Black, shining : crown of the head with a bright red stripe ex- 

 tending to the face, which is bright red, and has on each side a 

 pitchy disk, with about twelve oblique furrows : feelers pale towards 

 the tips : middle stripe and border of the chesi bright red : disk of 

 the buck of tlie abdomen dark red : legs red ; thighs towards the 

 base and at the tips, hips, feet, and tips of shanks black ; fore- 

 wings brown, narrow, black along the borders from the middle to the 

 tips ; the black is accompanied by a red stripe, which, towards the 

 base, occupies the fore horder, and diverges thereunto from the hind 

 border: hind-wings brown ; veins black. Length of the body 5—6 

 lines; of the wings 16 — 18 lines. 

 a, b. Brazil. 



4. Sphenorhina compressa. 



Cercopis compressa, St. Farg. et Sero. Enc. Mith. x. 606, 9. Stall, 



Cic. pi. 21, f. 112. 

 n. Brazil. Presented by J. G. Children, Esq. 

 b, c. Brazil. 



