320 LIST OF HOMOPTEBOUS INSECTS. 



more oblique, parallel to the sides ; plates beneath pear-shaped, bor- 

 dered with green, and adorned with a green stripe : dislc of the scut- 

 cheon of the middle-chest adorned with the three usual bright green 

 stripes, and having a green spot on each side : abdomen grass-green, 

 obconical, mottled with yellow, tawny at the tip, adorned with three 

 parallel indistinct whitish stripes : legs pale tawny, partly green, 

 slightly grooved ; thighs and anterior shanks striped with brown ; 

 hind-shanks armed with five black-tipped spines; hind-feet much 

 widened : wings colourless ; a slight tawny tinge on the tip of the 

 fore-wings ; brand tawny, occupying two areolets and part of a 

 third ; veins pale greenish-tawny, darker towards the tips. Length 

 of the body 5 lines; of the wings 10 lines. 

 a. North Bengal. From Miss Campbell's collection. 



35. DlCTTOPHOEA. PALLIDA, Mas. 



Lutea, fusiformis, viridi viltata ; caput thoracis lungitudine ; ab- 

 domen flavum, albido viltatum, basi luteum, apice fulvum, 

 thnrace pautlb lonyim ; segmenlonvm margines postici virides ,• 

 pedes Jtavo-virides ; tibia: poslica spinis quatiwr armata ; alee 

 limpidce ; ales antic<e apice subfulvm. 

 Body spindle-shaped, pale luteous : head full as long as the 

 chest, and full half its breadth, ascending, prismatic and linear from 

 the front of the crown to the lip which is black and convex ; upper 

 side with a bright green stripe along each edge, and with a short 

 green middle stripe, which does not extend beyond the eyes ; sides 

 green: under side bright luteous with three bright green ridges 

 which are continued along part of the epistoma : mouth tawny with 

 a black tip, reaching nearly to the hind-hips: fore-chest hardly con- 

 ical in front, slightly concave behind, bordered with green, adorned 

 as usual with five bright green stripes; side plates pear-shaped with 

 green borders, a bright green middle stripe : scutcheon of the middle- 

 chest with the three green stripes, and the two green side stripes ; 

 abdomen obconical, a little longer than the chest, yellow with 

 whitish stripes, luteous towards the base, tawny at the tip; hind 

 borders of the segments grass-green : legs slender, slightly grooved, 

 dull pale yellow, tinged with green ; tips of the feet and of the fore- 

 shanks brown ; hind-shanks armed with four black-tipped spines ; 

 hind-feet moderately broad : wings colourless ; a slight tawny tinge 

 on the tips of the fore-wings ; brand pale brown, occupying two 

 areolets and part of a third ; veins green, brown towards the tips. 

 Length of the body 3i lines; of the wings 7 lines. 

 a. North India. From Mr. Warwick's collection. 



