LIST Ol- HOMOPlEKOliS INSECTS. 



12. FiDiciNA Aper, Mas. 



Neri'us Iransversus lu.i subcurvus, obliqum, angulum valde oblti- 

 sum fingeits, 2o sexties ejus longitudine divism ; 2iis subcur- 

 vus, vaUU obliqmts, anr/tilum perobtusum fingens, \o mullh 

 longior ; 3us rectus, mbobliquus, angulum subnbtusiim Jin- 

 gens ; 4 us subundatw, obliqwis, angulum acutum fingens, 3" 

 plus dupld longior. 

 Second mavjfinal aveolet less than three-fourths of the length of 

 the first ■• first cross-vein slightly curved, slanting, forming a very 

 obtuse angle, parted from the second by six times its length ; second 

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

 much longer than the first; third straight, very slightly slanting, 

 forming a slightly obtuse angle ; fourth slightly waved, slanting, 

 forming an acute angle, more than twice the length of the third ; 

 fifth curved, almost upright, forming a hardly acute angle. Body 

 tawny, short and broad: head full as broad as the fore-chest; crown 

 adorned with two irregular and branched black bands which arc 

 united between the eyelets: face very slightly convex: mouth tawny 

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

 black : scutcheon of the fore-chest adorned along the hind border 

 with a black band, which in the middle is widened into a triangle ; 

 furrows black ; hind-scutcheon with three extremely shallow exca- 

 vations on the hind border, slightly convex and forming a very ob- 

 tuse angle near the base of each fore-wing, blackish on each side : 

 scutcheon of the middle-chest pitchy on the disk and having an ob- 

 lique black stripe on each side ; hind border rather deeply excavated : 

 abdomen obconical, a little longer than the chest, pitchy above, fer- 

 ruginous and clothed with pale down ahmg the hind border and on 

 each side of the segments : opercula pitchy, small ; drums tawny, 

 very small, rather far apart : legs tawny ; claws and tips of the fore- 

 thighs and of the hind-shanks black ; fore-thighs armed with one 

 stout tooth : wings colourless, but with an extremely slight tawny 

 tinge, black towards the base, ferruginous along the fore border ; 

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

 veins clouded with dark brown ; flaps black towards the base and 

 along the fore border. Length of the body 18 lines ; of the wings 

 48 lines. 

 a. Cayenne. Presented by H. C. Rolhery, Esq. 



