LIST OF HOMOPTEItOUS INSECTS. 70i) 



with brown along the border ; veins l)lacl(, tawny at the base. 

 Length of the body 4i lines; of the wings 10 lines. 

 «, b. Columbia. From Mr. Turner's collection, 

 f. Columbia. From M.Jurgens' collection. 



1(5. Ptyelus terrenus. 



Ferrugineus ; caput nigra quinqiie-guttatum ; facies nigra, fulvo 

 fasciata ; pectus picen maculatum ; abdomen nigrum, ferrugineo 

 fasciatum ; pedes fulvi ; al<B anticce fiavo-fuse<e, Jusco oblique 

 hiviltata. 



Aphrophora terreua, Germar, MSS. 



Ferruginous, shining: head and chest flat, slightly shining, 

 thickly and minutely punctured, covered with tawny down : head 

 concave along the hind border, more convex in front, with five black 

 dots near together on the fore border, inner pair of dots larger than 

 the other three; face black, with an interrupted tawny band, flat on 

 the disk, slightly shelving on each side, which has about twelve 

 oblique, very shallow cross ridges ; epistoma keeled ; mouth with 

 a black tip: breast with pitchy spots: abdomen black; hind 

 borders of the segments ferruginous ; legs tawny : fore-wings yel- 

 lowish brown, with two darker brown irregular ol)lique streaks, 

 the second indistinct ; tips conical, almost pointed : hind-wings 

 nearly colourless, willi brown tips ; veins black, pale yellow at the 

 base. Length of the body 3 J lines ; of the wings 8 lines. 

 a. South Africa. Presented by Dr. A. Smith. 



Var. B. Fuscus ; facies ferruginea, ad discum nigra; coxa; 

 posticcc genuaque posticafiilva ; alee postictc mbcinerece. 



Brown, shining: head and chest flat, punctured: head con- 

 cave along the hind border, more convex in front ; its length more 

 than one-fourth of its breadth ; face black and flat on the disk, fer- 

 ruginous and with nine curved oblique ridges on each side ; epi- 

 stoma ferruginous : month black, ferruginous towards the base : hind- 

 hips and hind-knees tawny : hind-wings slightly gray ; veins black, 

 tawny towards the base. Length of the body 3—3* lines ; of the 

 wings 7—8 lines. 



0, c. Cape. From M. Drege's collection. 



