.3t LIST or HOMOPTEROUS INSECTS. 



seven black stripes ; the middle one linear, very much widened on 

 the fore border, and slightly widened on tlie hind border ; the next 

 pair forked, partly occupying the furrows ; the following pair on 

 the furrows ; the outer pair on each side ; hind-scutcheon bright 

 green, varied with tawny, slightly waved along the hind border, 

 rather narrow in the middle, much widened, and forming a black 

 nearly right angle on each side : scutcheon of the middle-chest 

 bright green ; disk tawny, adorned with three large black marks, of 

 these the side pair are obconical and the middle one resembles a 4- 

 reversed ; hind border deeply excavated : abdomen nearly obconical, 

 a little shorter than the chest, mostly pitchy above with the excep- 

 tion of the hind borders of the segments: opercula none ; tyrabals 

 pale tawny ; drums green, short, hardly parted ; legs green, tinged 

 with tawny ; tips of the claws black; fore-legs adorned with pitchy 

 marks ; fore-thighs armed with two small black teeth : wings colour- 

 less ; fore-wiugs tinged with tawny towards the base, adorned towards 

 the lip with seven large dark brown spots, six of these are at the tips 

 of the fore-areolet of the lirsl second and third discoidal areolets, 

 and of the eigth marginal areolet ; the seventh is the largest, occu- 

 pies the tip of the wing, and encloses two round colourless spots : 

 a very small brown spot at tl:e base of the eighth marginal areolet ; 

 primitive areolet, fore-flaps, and the base of the hind- flaps green ; 

 veins black, pitchy towards the base, where they are tinged with 

 green. Length of the body 15 lines ; of the wings 47 lines. 

 a. West Coast of America. Presented by Capt. Kellelt and Lieut. 

 Wood. 



4. Zammara angulosa, Fcm. 

 Nervus tran.iversiis lu-s subcurmis, valde obliqmis, angulum valdd 

 oblusumjimieni, 2o plus duplo ejus longiludine divisus ; 2«s 

 rectus, obliijuusy angulum obtusttmjingens , lo {/uadripartitn 

 brevior ; 3«(s subundat'is, obliquus, awjulum subuciitum fin- 

 yens ; 4tis curvus, obliquus, anijulum vix aculuin finyens, 3o 

 paulld loni/ior. 

 Second marginal areolet about seven-eighths of the length of the 

 first, slanting, forming a very obtuse angle, parted from the second by 

 much more than twice its length ; second straight, slanting, forming 

 an obtuse angle, not one-fourth of the length of the first; third slightly 

 waved, slanting, forming a very slightly acute angle ; fourth curved, 

 slanting, forming a hardly acnte angle, a little longer than the third; 

 fifth straight, slightly slanting, forming an obtuse angle. Body 

 dull tawny, short, broad: head much narrower than the fore-chest, 

 adorned with two black oblique stripes, which being united occupy 



