LIST OP HO.MOPIEROUS INSECTS. 



8. ClOCUS MACULATUS. 



Ferrugineus ; caput tesiaceo maculalum, antice nigra marginatum ; 

 scutum et pectus testacea ; scutellum testaceo trimaculalum ; 

 abdomen rufum, sublus flavum apice nigrum ; pedes albidi, 

 tibiis apice nigris, femoribus tibiisque anticis tarsisque fulvis ; 

 al<B antic(E picece, basi mridescentes,fiavo guttata apice fulixg ; 

 alw posticce sublimpidte, fusco marginatce. 



Ferruginous: head conical, slightly curved upward, with a 

 slight, narrow, longitudinal furrow, adorned with testaceous spots 

 which are confluent towards the hind horder ; fure horder hlack ; 

 face concave on the disk ; sides pitchy, tawny in front of the feelers, 

 with indistinct ohlique ridges ; shield dull testaceous with darker 

 punctures; scutcheon with three large, irregular, pale testaceous 

 spots : breast pale testaceous : abdomen red, yellow beneath, with a 

 black tip : legs whitish ; tips of the shanks black ; fore-thighs and 

 fore-shanks tawny; feet tawny with black tips : fore-wings pitchy, 

 greenish with yellow dots towards the base, tawny at the tips and 

 along part of the hind borders : hind-wings almost colourless, brown 

 at the tips and along the hind borders. Length of the body 5 

 lines ; of the wings 10 lines. 



Var. (3. Head testaceous, with a fen'uginous stripe : breast 

 white : abdomen yellow beneath at the tip : fore-wings with whitish 

 tips. 



Var. y. Back of the abdomen with a black tip. 

 a—e. Brazil. 



9. ClOCUS DIMTNniUS. 



Ferrugineus ; facies, scutellum et pectoris discus picea ; abdominis 

 dorsum piceum basi nifcscens ; pedes tibiis apice tarsisqv£ 

 nigris ; aim anlicm picece, basi viridi-fulva, apice luridie ; 

 alee posticce fuscct. 



Ferruginous : head conical, with a longitudinal furrow, widen- 

 ing towards the lip, which is curved \ipward ; face pitchy, ferrugi- 

 nous towards the front, striated and concave on the disk, with 

 oblique ridges on each side : shield roughly punctured ; scutcheon 

 pitchy with a ferruginous tip : disk of the breast pitchy : abdomen 

 pitchy above, reddish at the base : feel and tips of the shanks black : 

 fore-wings pitchy, dull greenish tawny towards the base, with lurid 



