62 LIST OF HOMOPTEnOUS INSF.CTS. 



angle. Body tawny : licad narrower than the foie-cliest ; crown 

 adorned with four hirge black marks, the middle pair triangular, 

 connected at the base ; face prominent, adorned above with a tri- 

 angular black mark, and on each side in front with black bands : 

 eyes prominent : mouth tawny with a black tip : feelers black : 

 fore-chest adorned with six black stripes ; the middle pair slightly 

 converge and then diverge, and include an elliptic space ; the other 

 four are oblique ; each side forming a very obtuse angle at the base 

 of the fore-wing, armed with a stout tooth near the fore border ; 

 hind-scutcheon rather narrow in the middle, broader on each side : 

 a black stripe on the scutcheon of the middle-chest extends from the 

 fore border along two-thirds of the length; on each side of this a 

 black sliglitlv oblique stripe extends from the fore border to half the 

 length of the middle stripe, and is succeeded by a black dot ; more 

 outward theie is a very small black streak, and still nearer the border 

 a long black. much excavated and slightly slanting stripe appears; 

 excavation on the hind border extremely slight ; abdomen almost 

 linear till near the tip, where it is obconical, very much longer than 

 the chest, adorned with an interrupted black stripe in the middle, 

 and with a row of black spots on each side ; disks of the segments 

 mostly pitchy : opercula tawny, rather small ; tyrabals pale green ; 

 drums pale tawny, very large, much more than half the length of 

 the abdomen, green towards the lips which are pitchy, broadest in 

 the middle part, slightly concave cm the outer side, very convex on 

 the inner side ; legs tawny ; tips of the claws black ; middle and 

 hind-thighs and shanks tinged with green ; fore-thighs armed with 

 two oblique teeth : wings colourless, pale brown at the base ; veins 

 and fore borders green ; veins black towards the tips, and adorned 

 with liroad black bands on the fore-wings, whose cross-veins are also 

 black ; first and second cross-veins clouded with brown. 



Fern. — Abdomen obconical, a little narrower than the chest, very 

 tapering and slender towards the tip, adorned with some pitchy 

 marks along the back and on each side, and with some black marks 

 towards the tip : oviduct black. 



Length of the body 13—14 lines ; of the wings 40—42 lines, 

 a, b. Silhet. From the Rev. J. Stainforth's collection. 



