yy LIST OF HOMOPTEHOUS INSECTS. 



above, tawny beneath : head much narrower than the fore-chest ; 

 crown adorned with two tawny bands, one in front of the eyelets, 

 tl)e other along the hind border: face slightly convex, not promi- 

 nent : mouth tawny with a black tip, reaching the hind-hips : feelers 

 l)lack : eyes not prominent : fore-chest broadest in the middle ; 

 hind-scutcheon mostly dull red, widened and forming a very obtuse 

 angle on each side: scutcheon of the middle-chest dull red on each 

 side and on the hind border, which is slightly excavated : abdomen 

 very slightly decreasing in breadth from the base to the tip, nearly 

 as broad as the chest and much longer; hind borders of the seg- 

 ments tawny : opercula none ; tymbals brown, adorned with white 

 streaks ; drums tawny, nearly meeting, rather small ; legs tawny ; 

 claws black towards the tips ; fore-thighs, middle-thighs and fore- 

 shanks spotted with black ; fore-thighs armed with two distinct 

 sharp tawny teeth ; hind-shanks beset with a few tawny spines : wings 

 very slightly tinged with clear brown, darker towards the tips, dark 

 reddish tawny at the base ; cross-veins and brands clouded with dark 

 brown ; a rim of brown spots on the tips of the longitudinal veins 

 of the marginal areolets; veins pitchy ; flaps of the hind-wings 

 dark reddish tawny towards the base, brown along the fore border. 

 Length of the body 15 lines ; of the wings 41 lines, 

 a. St. Domingo. Presented by M. A. Pierret. 



8. Zammara plena, Mas. 

 Nervus transversus \tts fori rectus, subobliquus, angulum obtusum. 

 Jingens, 2o plus quadruple ejus longiludine divisus ; 2us sub- 

 curifus, valdi obliquus, angulum perobtusum fingens, lo pltis 

 duplo longior ; 'ins subundatus, obliquus, angulum acutntn 

 fingens ; Aus subcurvus, obliquus, angulum subacutum fingens, 

 3o longior. 



Second marginal areolet more than two-thirds of the length of 

 the first : first cross-vein nearly straight, very slightly slanting, 

 forming an obtuse angle, parted from the second by more than four 

 times its length ; second slightly curved, very slanting, forming an 

 extremely obtuse angle, much more than twice the length of the 

 first; third very slightly waved, slanting, forming an acute angle ; 

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

 longer than the third ; fifth curved, almost upright, forming a 

 hardly acute angle. Body tawny : head much narrower than the 

 fore-chest, blackish in front ; crown adorned with an irregular in- 

 terrupted black band ; face very slightly convex : mouth tawny with 

 a black tip, reaching the hind-hips : eyes rather prominent: feelers 



