LIST OP HOMOPTEllOUS INSECTS. 



excluding: the eyes, is about llirice the length ; hind border and face 

 whitish, the latter flat, slighlly tinged in pari with very pale red; 

 epistoina very small ; shield very finely striated across, convex in 

 front, almost straijrht along the hind border, white on each side : 

 breast and abdomen black : le^s pale yellow : fore-wings colourless, 

 with three coppery ferruginous bands, one at the base, the third at 

 the tip ; veins ferruginous: hind-wings colourless. Length of the 

 body 2 lines ; of the wings 5 lines, 

 a, b. New Holland. From Mr. Argent's collection. 



45. Btthoscopus albidus. 



Ftavo-alhis ; pedes fiavi; alcp. anticm subflavescentes ; ala posficie 

 albidee. 



Yellowish-white: head short, as broad as the chest, slightly 

 rounded in front ; crown almost flat, equally long across its whole 

 breadth, which, excluding the eyes, is full thrice the length ; face 

 truncate-conical, very slightly convex: epislomasubquadrate : chest 

 flat ; shield finely transversely striated; scutcheon smooth, with an 

 almost straight suture across the middle: legs pale yellow: wings 

 transparent : fore-wings slightly tinged with yellow : hind-wings 

 whitish. Length of the body 2i lines ; of the wings 5 lines, 

 a, b. Honduras. From Mr. Miller's collection. 



46. Bythoscopus austbalis. 



Testaceous, fusco undatus, subtus fiavus ; fades fusco viltata 

 et mullifasciata ; scutellum flamim, fusco IriviUulum, nigra 

 bimaculatum ; pectus flavum ; abdomen supra ferrugiix^um, 

 albido fasciatum, subtus flavum ; aim anticai luridm ; ala 

 posticte subcinercw. 



Testaceous, adorned with undulating brown marks, yellow be- 

 neath : head very short, as broad as the chest, indistinctly angular 

 in front ; crown longer on each side than in the middle, where its 

 length is not more than one-twelfth of its breadth ; face punctured, 

 large, truncate-conical, with a spindle-shaped brown stripe, and on 

 each side with a row of short brown bands ; epistoma narrow, linear : 

 shield transversely striated, semicircular along the fore border, very 

 slightly concave behind ; scutcheon yellow, with three brown streaks, 

 and with a black spot on each side of the fore border : breast yellow 



