LIST OF HOMOPTEKOUS INSECTS. 



Genus 7. CHALEPUS, n. 



Caput antici attenualum, compressum, subarcuatum, ascendens. 



Head prolonged like those of some Fulgorina, attenuated, 

 compressed, ascending, more or less curved. 



1. Chalepus hastatus. 



Ferruginea ; caput supra et apice nigrum ; fades et pectus fiavo 

 bivittala ; thorux fiavo bimaculatus ; scutellum picetim, apice 

 fiavum; abdomen testaceum ; pedes testacei ; alee anticce fiavo 

 fttsca. 



Ferruginous : head and chest finely punctured : head mostly 

 black ahove towards the tip, forming a long pointed horn, which is 

 inclined upwards, and whose length is more than twice its breadth 

 at the base ; face slightly convex, with a yellow stripe on each side ; 

 epistoma pitchy, with a tawny stripe : mouth ferruginous, reaching 

 the middle hips ; tip pitchy : chest with a small yellow spot on each 

 side ; scutcheon pitchy with a yellow tip : breast with a yellow 

 stripe on each side : abdomen and legs testaceous ; tips of the feet 

 pitchy : fore-wings yellowish brown, narrow, very convex along the 

 fore border, almost spindle-shaped: hind-wings broad, almost 

 colourless, with a tawny tinge towards the base ; veins brown, tawuy 

 towards the base. Length of the body 4^ lines ; of the wings 

 9 lines. 



2. Chalepus teliferus. 



Ferrugineus ; caput piceo trivittatitm ; fades fiava, piceo vittata; 

 thorax piceo trivittatus ; pectus fulvum ; abdomen nifescens, 

 segmcntorum marginibus fiavis ; pedes fuim-flavi , tibiis ante- 

 rioribus rufis, tarsis anterioribus piceis ; alee anlicte angusta, 

 piceo bifasciata. 



Ferruginous : head and chest minutely punctured, covered with 

 tawny down : head tapering, much inclined upward, forming a long 

 prismatic pointed horn ; its length more than twice its breadth at 

 the base ; three pitchy stripes above ; face yellow, spindle-shaped, 

 with a pitchy stripe along the disk, on each side of which are ten 

 distinct very oblique cross ridges ; epistoma yellow, with a ferrugi- 



