234 LIST OF HOMOrXEROUS INSECTS. 



prominent: fore-chest narrower in front than behind; sides of the 

 scutcheon straight ; hind-sciitcheon narrow above, much widened on 

 each side: scutcheon of the middle-chest adorned with three broad 

 obconical tawny stripes wliose disks are mottled with brown ; excava- 

 tion on the hind border very indistinct: abdomen ferrnginous, slightly 

 obconical, not longer than" the chest, green for half the length from 

 the base with the exception of a stripe in the middle : opercula none ; 

 tymbals adorned with pitchy and whitish stripes ; drums rather small , 

 pale tawny, parted by a moderate interval: legs tawny; tips of the 

 claws black ; fore-thighs adorned with pitchy streaks, armed with 

 two tawny teeth whose tips are black ; wings colourless, narrow, 

 tinged with green at the liase of the fore-wings ; fore borders brown ; 

 veins black, green towards the base : flaps colourless. Length of 

 the body 7 lines ; of the wings 20 lines. 

 a. Java. From Mr. Argent's collection. 



5. Cephaloxys nutans, Mas. 



Nervus transxvrsus lits feri! rectus, erectux, angulum suboblusum 

 fingens, 2o plus quadrupld ejus lo7i</itudine divisus ; 2«« sub- 

 rectus, erectus, angulum obtusum fingens, \o longiur ; 3«« 

 fere rectus, obliquus, angulum acutum fingens ; Aus feri rectus, 

 angulum feri rectum fingens, subobliquus, 3o pix brevior. 

 Second marginal areolet about five-sixths of the length of the 

 first : first cross-vein almost straight, upright, forming a very slightly 

 obtuse angle, parted from the second by much more than four times 

 its length ; second nearly straight, upright, forming an obtuse angle, 

 longer than the first ; third nearly straight although very indistinctly 

 waved, slanting, forming an acute angle ; fourth nearly straight, 

 forming an almost right angle, nearly as long as the third and much 

 less slanting; fifth very slightly curved, upright, forming a right 

 angle. Body pale tawny : head a little narrower than the fore-chest, 

 somewhat pitchy about the eyelets and having on each side a pitchy 

 8tripe which proceeds from the base of the feelers along the sides of 

 the eyes ; face conical, very long and prominent like a beak, adorned 

 above with a dark tawny stripe : niontli pale tawny with a black lip, 

 extending a little beyond the base of the fore-hips : eyes prominent : 

 feelers black, tawny at the base : scutcheon of the fore-chest rather 

 long, adorned with six black .spots in front, with a black obconical 

 stripe occupying a furrow on each side, and with two jiitcliy spots 

 on the hind border ; hind-scutcheon narrow above, much broader at 

 the base of the fore-wing where it forms a distinct angle, and ex- 

 tends beyond the scutcheon : middle-chest adorned on each side with 



