80 LIST OF HOMOPTEROUS INSECTS. 



length ; second very slightly curved, very oblique, fonning an ex- 

 tremely obtuse angle, hardly more ihan half the length of the Krst; 

 third waved, slightly oblique, forming a hardly acute angle; fourth 

 waved, oblique, forming an acute angle, much longer than the third ; 

 fifth curved, nearly upright, forming a slightly acute angle. Body 

 black, short, broad, partly covered with tawny down ; head as broad 

 as the fore-chest; a tawny dot in front of the crown ; face very 

 slightly convex : mouth black, tawny at the base, reaching the hind- 

 hips: eyes not prominent; feelers black: hind-scutcheon of the 

 fore-chest adorned with two large tawny spots, almost straight on 

 each side, which, however, is very slightly concave and has an ob- 

 tuse angle near the base of each fore-wing ; scutcheon of the mid- 

 dle-chest adorned with two small tawny spots near the middle of its 

 hind border, which is hardly excavated": abdomen ohconical, longer 

 than the chest: drums tawny, extremely small, far apart: legs dark 

 tawny ; thighs, especially the fore pair and the middle pair, striped 

 with ' black ; tips of the" shanks, feet and fore-shanks black ; fore- 

 thighs armed with three black teeth, of these two are long and one 

 very small : wings colourless, green along the lore border for half 

 the length, dark brown from thence to the tips, towards the base 

 black, to which colour succeeds a small space adorned with opaline 

 lustre ; veins tawny, black towards the tips ; first and second cross- 

 veins and the adjoining parts of the longitudinal veins clouded 

 with dark brown ; flaps black towards the base. Length of the body 

 18 lines ; of the wings 54 lines, 

 a. Silhet. From Mr. Sowerby's collection. 



4. FiBICINA NIVIFERA, MaS. 



Nervas Iramversus lus subcuri>u.i, valde obliguus, angulvm perob- 



tmum finyens, 2o fere tripl/i ejus longitudine divisus ; 2us 



subcurwus obliquus, anyulum mlde obtmum finijem, \i dimi- 



dio longitudine ; 3ms undatm, obliquus, angulum subacutum 



fingens; ius undatus, obliqum, angulum aculum fingens, 



3o muUd longior. 



Second marginal areolet as long as the first : first cross-vein 



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



parted from the second by nearly thrice its length ; second very 



slightly curved, slanting, forming a very obtuse angle, full half the 



length of the first; third waved, slanting, forming a slightly acute 



angle ; fourth waved, slanting, forming an acute angle, much shorter 



than the third ; fifth slightly curved, nearly upright, forming an 



acute angle. Body black, shining, short and broad, partly clothed 



with golden hairs which are most prevalent beneath : head very broad 



