LIST OF HOMOPTEROUS INSECTS. 



13. DuNDCniA BAMIFEEA, MaS. 



Nervus transversm Itis subcunnts, subobliquus, angulum subacu- 

 tuvijingem, 2o fer^ triplo ejus longitudine divisus ; 2its rec- 

 tus, subobliquus, angulum oblusumfingens, \o mullb brevior ; 

 '3iis subcurvus, obliquus, angulum aculum fingens ; 4us sub- 

 recius, subobliquus, angulum subaculum fingeru, 3o multti 

 brevior. 



This species and D. cinctimanus are very nearly allied, but the 

 fourth cross-wing vein of the former is more upright than that of 

 the latter. 



Second marginal areolet full seven-eighths of the lengili of the 

 first : first cross-vein slightly curved, slightly slanting, forming a 

 slightly acute angle, parted from the second by nearly thrice its 

 length; second straight, slightly slanting, forming an obtuse angle, 

 much shorter than the first ; third slightly curved, slanting, form- 

 ing an acute angle ; fourth nearly straight, slightly slanting, form- 

 ing a very slightly acute angle, much shorter than the third ; fifth 

 straight, slanting, forming an obtuse angle. Head and fore-chest 

 pitchy, adorned with some indistinct tawny marks : head a little 

 narrower than the fore-chest ; face convex, black and adorned with 

 broad yellow bands in front : mouth tawny with a black tip, extend- 

 ing to the hind borders of the drums: eyes very prominent: feelers 

 black ; fore-chest broadest near the base of the fore-wings ; hind- 

 scutcheon green, excavated, adorned with two brown spots and 

 much widened on each side : scutcheon of the middle-chest black, 

 tawny on each side and behind, adorned on the disk with two tawny 

 stripes, which are each divided in front into three branches ; be- 

 tween these are two short stripes forming an angle in front and with 

 two black spots behind them ; hind border slightly excavated : breast 

 tawny: abdomen ferruginous, shining, very much longer than the 

 chest, tapering from the base to the tip ; opercula tawny ; drums 

 dark tawny, of moderate size, not apart ; legs tawny ; feet' and fore- 

 shanks black ; middle-feet and perhaps the other feet pale tawny at 

 the base; fore-thighs armed with two .sharp, black teeth; wings with 

 an extremely slight brown tinge, brown at the base, tawny along 

 the fore border and in the adjoining part of the base ; cross-veins 

 clouded with brown ; a row of slight brown spots near the tips of 

 the marginal ateolets; veins adorned with alternate black and pale 

 tawny bands ; veins of the hind-wings ferruginous ; cross-veius 

 darker ; fiaps brown towards the base. Length of the body 18 lines : 

 of the wings 47 lines. 



a. Silhet. From the Rev. J. Slainforth's collection. 



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