LIST 01' HOMOI'TEBOUS INSECTS. 



31. Ptvelus fingens. 



Flaims ; thorax piceo bivittatus ; abdomen fulvum ; alte anticce 

 albida, ferrugineo vitlatai, ad margines posticos fulvte. 

 Yellow, shining : head and chest flat ; head concave along the 

 hind border, more convex in front where it has a slight notch on 

 each side ; its length less than half its breadth ; face convex, al- 

 most oval, with a punctured middle stripe, on each side of which 

 are nine shallow oblique cross ridges; epistoma slightly keeled: 

 mouth tawny, reaching to the middle hips ; maxillae ferruginous ; 

 chest punctured, slightly impressed across in front, with a pitchy 

 stripe extending on each side from the eye to the base of the fore- 

 wing ; abdomen tawny ; tips of the feet pitchy : fore-wings whitish, 

 pale tawny towards the hind border, with an undulating ferruginous 

 stripe, which extends through the disk from the base to the tip ; 

 hind-wings colourless ; veins pale yellow. Length of the body 24 

 lines ; of the wings 6 lines. 



a. Colenso. Presented by Dr. Hooker. 



33. Ptyelus trimaculatus. 



Aphrophora trimaculata. White, Zool. Voy. Erebus ^ Terror, pi. 7, 

 fig. 10. 



a. New Zealand. Presented by Dr. Sinclair. 



b, c. New Zealand. Presented by Dr. Hooker. 

 d. New Zealand. Presented by Dr. Honker. 

 e,f. Colenso. Presented by Dr. Hooker. 



j33. Ptyelus subvibescens. 



Aphrophora virescens, White, Zool. Voy. Erebus ^ Terror, pi. 7, 

 f 9. 



a. New Zealand. Presented by Capt. Sir James C. Ross. 



34. Ptyelus punctum. 



Fulvus ; fades el pectus nigricantia ; alw anticic marginis poslici 

 prnpe apicemfusco biguttata. 



Pale tawny, covered with pale down : head and chest almost 

 flat: head very convex in front, with two furrows which diverge 

 from the fore border and communicate with two more oblique im- 



