LIST OF HOMOPTEROUS INSECTS. 



11. SPHENORHINA QUADEIODTTATA. 



Picea ; abdomen supra rufum ; pedes nigri ; tarsi rufi ; ala an- 

 ticce luteo Kmaculatm. 



Pitchy, shining : head with transverse furrows and three keels 

 in front : cliest finely ruj{ulose, fore-chest slightly impressed on each 

 side in fiout, with an indistinct middle ridge ; abdomen red above : 

 legs black ; knees and feet bright red ; hind-shanks red towards the 

 base : fore-wings adorned with two round luteous spots at two-thirds 

 of the length ; one on the fore border, larger than the other, which 

 is near the hind border: hind-wings gray, brown at the tips and 

 along the hind borders. Length of the body A\ — 5 lines ; of tlie 

 wings 14 — 15 lines, 

 a. — Honduras. From Mr. Dyson's collection. 



12. Sphenorhina suffusa. 



Rufa ,' pectus piceum ; abdomen sublits nigrum ,■ al<B anticiB sub- 

 fuscce, luteo bimaculatce et univitlalfe. 



Red, shining : head and chest thickly punctured, slightly 

 shining : head depres.sed on each side of the middle keel ; face 

 slightly compressed, with a very prominent keel, having on each 

 side distinct, slightly curved ridges : tip of the mouth pitchy : chest 

 with an angular depression on each side near the fore border : breast 

 pitchy: abdomen mostly black beneath: fore-wings pale brown, 

 with a large oblong orange spot on the fore border at the base ; be- 

 neath this and a little further from the base there is an oblique 

 orange mark, and nearer the tip an interrupted orange stripe, which 

 does not reach the hind border: hind-wings lurid; veins brown, 

 bright red at the base. Length of the body 41 lines ; of tlie wings 

 13 lines. 



13. Sphenorhina notata. 



Ferruginea ; pectus et abdomen rufa; pedes nigri; femora rufa ; 

 tibicE posticte fulvre ; ala anticce subfuscce, riifo trinotatte. 



Ferruginous, shining : head and chest rather roughly punc- 

 tured : head depressed oa the disk, pitchy on each side in Iront ; 



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