784 LIST OF HOMOPTEHOUS INSECTS. 



ruginous, with black spots : fore-wiiiRS pitchy, with tawny tips : 

 hind-wings slightly gray, bordered witli pale brown. Length of the 

 body 4i — 6 lines ; of the wings !) — 10 lines. 



Var. 0. Black stripe on the face replaced by an angular spot ; 

 disk of the front of the face and of the epistoma black : tip of the 

 scutcheon ferruginous: abdomen ferruginous beneath and at the 

 tip. 



Var. y. Head and chest ferruginous ; scutcheon and hind part 

 of the shield partly black : abdomen ferruginous beneath and at the 

 tip : thighs pitchy. 



Var. 8, like var. y. Head pitchy on each side, slightly ridged in 

 front. 

 a— (I. St. John's Bluff, E. Florida. Presented by E. DouWeday, 



Esq. 

 e. North America. 

 f-j- ? 



9. Proconia claeiou. 



Nigra ; caput luteum, nigra varium ; thorax niger, viridi gutta- 

 tus ; abdnmen subtus el apice luteum ; pedes lutei ; alaantica 

 picece, apice fulva: ; alee posticte stibcinerea, apice fusca. 



Head luteous, adorned above with black stripes and bands, 

 which enclose six entire and three imperfect quadrilateral compart- 

 ments ; tip of the epistoma black : mouth ferruginous with a black 

 tip : chest black, thickly covered with pale greenish dots, luteous and 

 varied with black in front; scutcheon luteous, marked with black: 

 abdomen black, luteous beneath on each side and at the tip : legs 

 luteous : fore-wings pitchy with tawny tips : hind-wings slightly 

 gray, dark brown along the hind borders and for near half the length 

 from the tips. Length of the body 4^ — & lines ; of the wings 9 — 10 

 lines. 



Var. j3. Fore-wings with pale spots. 



Var. y. Compartments on the head mostly imperfect: hind- 

 wings brown for two-thirds of the length from the tips. 



Var. 8. All the compartments on the head imperfect: three- 

 fourths of the hind-wings brown. 

 a — c. St. John's Bluff, E. Florida. Presented by E. Doubledny, 



Esq. 

 d. Nova Scotia ? 



