•2S)() LIST OF HOMOPTKIIOUS INSECTS. 



depressed, pointed, adorned on each side with four hlack spots : ab- 

 domen bhick, slightly keeled aliove, a little broader, but hardly 

 longer than the chest, adorned with a very broad hiteous stripe on 

 each side from half the length to the tip ; a slender luteous stripe 

 along the dorsal keel ; a row of black spots along each side ; hind 

 borders of the segments tawny : legs tawny, furrowed ; knees 

 mostly green ; anterior shanks with black spots ; hind-shanks armed 

 with spines: wings bright red at the base: fore wings pale brown, 

 adorned for two-thirds of the length from the base with numerous 

 green dots, and along the fore border with green spots, lawny, with 

 a reddish band, and with paler spots towards the tip ; veins mostly 

 tawny : hind-wings very dark brown, grayish along the hind border, 

 adorned with a large colourless spot near the tip ; veins black. 

 Length of the body 8i lines ; of the wings 22 lines, 

 a. ? From Mr. Shuckard's collection. 



29. PoiOCERA SATELLITIA, MaS. 



Fulvo-mridis ; melathorax niyer ; abdomcnrufum ; opercuta fulva ; 

 pedes nigro-fxisci, viridi villali, libiis, tarsisque posticis fer- 

 rugineis; alai aniica virides, flavo 7naculatte, apice viridi, 

 flav(B subhyalinee nigra quinque-maculata: ; ales postica nigrcr 

 fascia arcuata alba ornatte. 

 Body green, mingled with tawny, transversely rugulose ; crown 

 of the head very short ; face divided by a distinct suture from the 

 epistoma : mouth ferruginous, extending to half the distance be- 

 tween the hind-hips and the tip of the abdomen : shield of the chest 

 with a longitudinal ridge which is forked towards the fore border 

 and unites with the transverse wrinkles : three ridges on the scut- 

 cheon, the side pair waved : hind-chest black, ridged across : abdo- 

 men obconical, bright red, a little longer than the chest, black at the 

 base and on each side of a deep longitudinal ridge ; opercula lawny: 

 legs blackish-brown, furrowed, slightly streaked with green ; hind- 

 shanks and hind-feet ferruginous ; hind-shanks armed with spines : 

 fore-wings green, adorned with numerous yellow spots and dots ; re- 

 ticulated part very pale greenish-yellow, almost transparent, adonied 

 with five black spots ; veins yellow and green : hind-wings black, 

 brown towards the tips, adorned with a curved white band, which 

 does not reach the hind border ; veins black, bluish-green towards 

 the base and on some parts of the hind border. Length of the body 

 7 lines; of the wings 19 lines, 

 a, b. Venezuela. From Mr. Dyson's collection. 

 c. ? 



