250 LIST OF HOMOPTEROnS INSECTS. 



slightly obtuse angle, parted f'lom the second by nearly thrice its 

 length ; second very slightly curved, slightly slanting. Conning an 

 obtuse angle, hardly longer than the first ; third straight, slanting, 

 forming an acute angle ; fourth very slightly curved, slightly slant- 

 ing, forming a right angle, very little shorter than the third ; fifth 

 slightly curved, slightly slanting, forming a slightly obtuse angle. 

 Body dark red, adorned with yellow down, which forms a broad 

 stripe along the back of the abdomen: mouth ferruginous, with a 

 pitchy tip : feelers yellow, pitchy at the base : furrows of the fore- 

 chest pitchy : legs red ; claws tawny, with black tips : wings colour- 

 less, bright" red at the base and along half ihe length of the fore 

 border; fore-wings bright tawny for near half the length ; a brown 

 band adjoins the tawny hue, and proceeds from the fore border to 

 the middle of the disk where it almost ceases ; veins yellow, reddish 

 towards the base. Length of the body 8 lines ; of the wings 17 

 lines. 



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



5. MOGANNIA AVICULA, MaS. 



Nervus transversiis lus rectus, feri erectm, angidum snbobtusu7n 

 fimjens, 2o plus dupl/> ijiis lonffitwHne divisus ; 2us vix curvtts, 

 fere crectus, angulum obtvsum fingens, \o longior ; 3us rectus, 

 obliquus, angulum rectum fingens ; 4us rectus, nbiifuns, an- 

 gulum aeutum Jingens, 3o longior. 

 Second marginal areolct full three-fourths of the length of the 

 first: first cross-vein straight, nearly upright, forming a slightly ob- 

 tuse angle, patted from the second by more than twice its length ; 

 second very slightly curved, nearly upright, forming an obtuse 

 angle, longer than the first; third straight, slanting, forming a right 

 angle ; fourth straight, slanting, forming an acute angle, longer 

 than the third ; fifth straight, nearly upright, forming a right angle. 

 Body dark red, clothed witli pale tawny down : head pale red, much 

 narrower than the fore-chest ; face longer than broad ; mouth dark 

 tawny, with a black tip: feelers yellow, black at the base: eyes 

 rather prominent: a pale red stripe extending from the head to the 

 tip of the abdomen : legs pitchy ; shanks dark red ; claws tawny, 

 with black tips : wings colouiless, bright red at the base ; fore- 

 wings brown and mottled with tawny for half the length from the 

 base ; veins yellow ; veins of the hind-wings tawny, red towards the 

 base. Length of the body 6—7 lines ; of the wings 16 lines, 

 o. Philippine Lslands. From Mr. Cuming's collection. 



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



