716 LIST OF HOMOPTEROns INSECTS. 



very convex, with indistinct cross ridges on each side, black towards 

 the epistoina, which is also blacli : disk of the lireast mostly black : 

 abdomen pitchy; a short dorsal stripe, hind borders of the segments 

 and oviduct tawny : legs yellow ; tips of the hind slianks and of 

 the hind-feet pitchy : fore-wings brown, narrow, with two very large 

 while spots on the fore border, with two indistinct whitish marks 

 near the base, and with two more along the hind border : hind-wings 

 colourless ; veins tawny, pale yellow towards the base. Length of 

 the body 2i lines ; of the wings 6 lines. 

 a. North India. From Mr. Warwick's collection. 



28. PtVELUS aCADHANOULARIS. 



Ferruginem,flavo notatus ; caput fulmmrium, facie picea ; abdo- 

 men piceo varium; pedes picei, Jlavo varii ; alee anticce fulva 

 piceo fasciatw. 

 Lepyronia quadrangularis. Say. 



Ferruginous : head and chest flat, thickly and minutely punc 

 tured, with a few small, irregular, yellow marks : head partly lawny 

 on each side, almost straight along the hind border, conical in front ; 

 its length about half its breadth ; face convex, pitchy, with a broad, 

 flat stripe, on each side of which are ten strongly marked, very 

 oblique cross ridges, with ferruginous spaces between them : mouth 

 reaching the middle hips ; tip pitchy : abdomen partly pitchy ; legs 

 pitchy ; anterior thighs with yellow spots ; hind legs yellow with 

 pitchy bands: fore-wings tawny, convex along the fore border, 

 partly pitchy at the base and at the tips, and with two pitchy obliipie 

 bands which form an angle: hind-wings almost colourless; veins 

 pitchy, tawny towards the base. Length of the body 3 lines ; of the 

 wings 7 lines. 



a, b. North America. Presented by the Entomological Club. 

 0, d. Nova Scotia. From Lieut. Redman's collection. 



29. Ptyelus mutans. 



Piceus ; caput subtus fulmim ; pectus fulvo marginatum ; abdo- 

 men supra purpureo tincttim, segmentorum marginibus posticis 

 subtus fiavis ; pedes fulvi ; alte anlicte fusca:, maculis vittaque 

 limpidis macula fasciaqtw fulvis, fasciaque ruf a ornaiis. 



Pitchy : head and chest flat, minutely punctured, clothed with 

 black down : head very slightly concave along the hind border. 



