750 LIST OF HOMOPTEROUS INSECTS. 



thighs and shanks black towards tlie tips ; feet partly black : fore- 

 wings lurid, adorned with numerous white dols, bright red near the 

 tips and thence for a short space along each border ; fore border and 

 hind border bright red, a purple tinge alongside the former : hind- 

 wings brown with a coppery lustre, paler along the fore borders. 

 Length of the body 6 lines; of the wings 12 lines, 

 a. Quito. Presented by M. Bourcier. 



53. Tettigonia tkita. 



Rufa, robusta ; scutelH discus nigricans ; abdomen nigra -purpureo 

 vitlatum, laleribvs alba maculatis, ventre flavo apice rufo ; tarsi 

 apicc nigri ; alic anticts lurida:, bast et ad costam rufa ; al<e 

 posticafuscte. 



Bright red, rather stout: head short ; crown semicircular; face 

 flat on the disk, with some slight, oblique ridges on each side; epi- 

 stoma keeled ; disk of the scutcheon blackish : abdomen with a 

 pnrplish black stripe along the back, and with a whitish triangular 

 spot on each side of every segment ; underside pale yellow with a 

 red tip; feet with black tips : fore-wings lurid, mostly red towards 

 the base along the fore border till near the tips: hind-wings brown. 

 Length of the body 5 lines ; of the wings 10 lines. 

 a. Java. From the East India Company's collection. 



54. Tettigonia vestuans. 



Crocea, robusta ; thorax nigra bifasciatus ; abdomen disco pur- 

 pureo-rtifurn, basi lestaceum et cnmpressum, ; pedes picci,fe- 

 inaribus posterioribus Jlavis, tibiis intermediis fulvis ; aim 

 antic(E fcrruginetB, croceo Irifasciatm, apice lurid<e ; al<c pos- 

 tica lurida. 



Saffron-colour, stout, shining: head short, broader than the 

 chest; crown concave on the hind border, more convex, and with a 

 black band in front ; underside testaceous ; face somewhat flattened, 

 very finely rugulose, smooth, with indistinct slriai, and with pale 

 brown, oblique bands on each side: mouth ferruginous; shield 

 transversely striated, with two black hands, one on each border ; 

 scutcheon black towards the base : abdomen purplish red on the 

 disk, testaceous and compressed towards the base : sheaths of the 



