LIST OF IIOMOPTEROUS INSECTS. 



27. PoiOCEBA UNDATA, FelD. 



Nigra, ferruyinen varia ; abdomen apice rufum, subius fulvum ; 

 opemila fulva ; pedes niijri ; femora ferrugineo vittata ; al<B 

 anliccE viridi-nit/rm, apice fuscie, fascia undataflava omaliB ; 

 alee posticte nigra, atoo maculata: etfascialic. 

 Body black : crown of the head short and broad, surrounded by 

 a ferruginous ridge ; face rather rugulose, surrounded by a slight 

 ridge, and having three ridges in its disk, the side pair oblique and 

 waved; mouth extending far beyond the hind hips: eyes pro- 

 minent : shield of the chest with a ferruginous ridge which sends 

 forth a branch along a suture to each side, where it widens into a 

 large ferruginous spot; the ridge is continued along the scutcheon, 

 which has an undulating ferruginous ridge on each side of its ilisk', 

 and the ridges of its border aie partly ferruginous: hind-chest 

 black, ridged across : abdomen hlack, short-elliptical, a little longer 

 and broader than the chest, bright red towards the tip, tawny 

 beneath ; opercula tawny : legs black, furrowed ; a ferruginous 

 stripe beneath each thigh ; hind-shanks armed with spines : wings 

 partly red at the base : fore-wiugs greenish black, brown at the tips, 

 adorned with a yellow, undulating band; veins ferruginous, |green- 

 ish tawny towards the tips, much reticulated along the whole 

 length; cross-veins bright green, bordered with white: hind wings 

 black, with two white spots near the base, and with a very broad 

 white hand near the tip which is brown ; veins black. Length of 

 the body 7 lines ; of the wings 22 lines. 



a. Columbia. From Mr. Turner's collection. 



28. PoiOCERA MULTIFAHIA, MaS. 



Fulva ; scutelli latera nigra quadrimaculata ; abdominis latera 

 fulva albo-guUata ; pedes fulvi, libire anteriorcs nigra macu- 

 latiB ; al<B anlivte fuscce viridimaculalie apice fulva ; alec pos- 

 tictB nigro-fuscw macula limpida subapicali ornata. 

 Body tawny, slightly shining, finely rugiilose: head nearly as 

 broad as the chest, its breadth more than twice its length ; crown 

 short, slightly curved, surrounded by a ridge ; front broad, .short, 

 flat, thinly clothed with short tawny hairs, angular on each side; 

 face with two indistinct longitudinal ridges, and with a more dis- 

 tinct transverse ridge near the epistoraa: mouth tawny with a 

 black tip, reaching a little beyond the hind hips : fore-chest curved, 

 tinged wiih green and brown, having a slight transverse depression 

 on each side near the fore border : scutcheon of the middle-chest 



