8(i LIST OF HOMOPTEBOUS INSECTS. 



cbeon of the middle-chest adorned with four dark green ohcouical 

 stripes, the middle pair shorter than tlie outer pair ; cross-ridge dark 

 green ; excavation on the hind border shallow : abdomen pitchy 

 above, sliovter and a little broader than the chest, with the excep- 

 tion of its tip which is compressed its length does not exceed its 

 breadth : legs tawny ; fore-leet and tips of the shanks pitchy ; fore- 

 thighs armed with two teeth : wings very pale brown, much darker 

 at the base and along the fore borders ; veins dark green, black 

 towards the tips ; flaps brown at the base and along the veins. Length 

 of the body 21 lines; of the wings 58 lines. 



H. FiDiciNA CoBvus, Fem. 



Nervus tranwerstis ^vs subundatus valde obliquus, angutum perob- 

 tusumfingens, 2o fere triplo ejus longitudine divisus ; 2us ^i- 

 curvus, obliqvus, unguium valde obtusum Jin gens, \i dimidio 

 non longior ; Sus subundalus, obliquus, angulum subacutum 

 fingens; 4i« subundatus, obliqiius, angulum acutumjingens, 

 So mullb longior. 

 Second marginal areolet more than five-sixths of the length of 

 the first : first cross-vein very slightly waved, very slanting, forming 

 an extremely obtuse angle, parted from the second by nearly thrice 

 its length ; second slightly curved, slanting, forming a very obtuse 

 angle, not more than half the length of the first ; third slightly 

 waved, slanting, fonning a very slightly acute angle ; fourth slightly 

 waved, slanting, forming an acute angle, much longer than the 

 third ; fifth curved, neatly upright, forming an almost right angle. 

 Body black, short, broad, adorned here and there with patches of 

 bright tawny down : head nearly as broad as the fore-cliest ; face 

 very convex, adorned with a tawny spot: mouth black, reaching the 

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

 chest broad, slightly widened and forming a very obtuse angle at the 

 base of eacli fore-wing, nearly straight on each side: hind border of 

 the middle-chest very slightly excavated : abdomen obconical, very 

 little longer than the chest, adorned with a tawny spot on each side 

 of the tip beneath ; legs black ; thighs striped with tawny ; hind- 

 shanks tawny, black at the base and at the tips ; fore-thighs armed 

 with two long black teeth : wings nearly colourless with a slight pale 

 brown tinge at the tips, very dark brown towards the base ; fore 

 border dark brown, striped with green, veins black, greenish towards 

 the base. Length of the body 17 lines ; of the wings 64 lines. 

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



