LIST OF H0MOPTER0U8 INSECTS. JO 



the space between the eyelets ; face convex, adorned in front with 

 blackish bands on each side : mouth tawny, with a black tip reach- 

 ing the hind hips: eyes not prominent : feelers dark tawny, black 

 at the base : scutcheon of the fore-chest adorned with a black stripe, 

 on each side of which there is a reversed C-shaped mark ; furrows 

 blackish ; hind-scutcheon widened on each side into a broad rim, 

 and forming a right angle, whose fore side is very slightly convex 

 and its hind side equally concave : scutcheon of the middle-chest 

 adorned with two obconical brown stripes which proceed from the 

 border, and have a cross-shaped brown spot behind them, and a 

 large irregular brown mark on each side; excavation on the hind 

 border of moderate depth: abdomen obconical, hardly longer than 

 the chest: drums very small, far apart : legs dark tawny ; feet and 

 tips of the shanks pitchy ; claws black, tawny at thebase ; fore-thlghs 

 streaked with black, tlieir teeth hardly rising above the surface : 

 wings colourless, adorned with six large spots, and with one short 

 broad stripe of a pale tawny hue clouded with brown; three of the 

 spots arc along the fore border, two in the disk on the cross-veins, 

 and one on the hind border ; the stripe occupies half the length of 

 the hind border from the lip, and contains three colourless circles ; 

 veins tawny, darker towards the tips. Length of the body 14 lines ; 

 of the wings 48 lines. 



a. Mexico. From Mr. Ai-gent's collection. 



.0. ZaMMARA INTllICATA, Mas. 

 Neritis transivrsm \us subcurvus, obliquus, unguium valde oblu- 

 sum fingens, 2o triplo ejus longitudine divistts ; 2«s subeur- 

 vtis, subobliquus, angulum obtusum fingens, li dimidio paiillt) 

 longinr ; 3us fere rectus, valde oiliquits, angulum acutum 

 fingens ; 4ms subcurmis, subobliquus, angulum vix aciilum 

 fingens, 3o multd brevior. 



Second marginal arcolet a little shorter than the first : first 

 cross-vein very slightly curved, slanting, oblique, foiming a very ob- 

 tuse angle, parted from the second by thrice its length, second 

 very sliglilly curved, slightly slanting, forming an obtuse angle, 

 little more than half the length of the first ; third nearly straight, 

 very slanting, forming an acute angle; fourth slightly curved, 

 slightly slanting, forming a hardly acute angle, much .shorter 

 than the third; hind-vein of the fourth discoidal areolet forming an 

 acute angle, whence springs the fifth cross-vein, which is straight 

 and forms a slightly obtuse angle. Body black above, tawny be- 

 neath : head much narrower than the fore-chest, adorned with eight 



