332 LIST OF HOMOPTERODS INSECTS. 



nol prominent : fore-chest pale green, convex in front, slightly con- 

 cave behinH, with a brown spot on each side of the disk : a greenish 

 tinge in the disk of the middle-chest, on each side of which are three 

 black spots in the form of a triangle : hind-chest yellow : abdomen 

 obconical, longer than the chest ; hind borders of the segments 

 yellow : legs tawny, slightly grooved, rather broad ; hind-shanks 

 armed with two black- tipped spines: wings broad; fore-wings dull 

 tawny, nearly colourless towards the tips, slightly tuberculate at the 

 base, fore-membrane very broad and convex towards the base, fur- 

 nished with very numerous nearly parallel branch veins ; a pale brown 

 triangular spot pointing inward on each areolet at the tip ; a few 

 brown spots scattered on the disk ; under side tinged with white ; 

 veins pale green: hind-wings whitish, tinged with pale purplish 

 brown towards the tips and along the hind border; veins tawny, 

 pale green towards the base. Length of the body 4i lines ; of the 

 wings 12 lines. 



a. West Coast of North America. Presented by Capt. Kellet and 

 Lieut. Wood. 



11. Elidiptera punctata, Mas. 



Viridi-fulva, sat tata,fu.ico maeulata ; pedes viridi-fulvi ; ala; an- 

 ticee virides, albo farinosw, hasi subtuberculatre, fusco macu- 

 lates, ad costam dilatata ; ala posticcB albidte, apice subfuscte. 

 Body tawny, tinged with pale green, rather broad : head a little 

 longer than the fore-chest, slightly marked with brown, forming an 

 obtuse angle on each side in front of the eyes; a brown spot on the 

 tip ; two brown spots on each side in the groove above the base of 

 the antennte ; front quadrate, flat ; epistoraa forming an acute tri- 

 angle: mouth pale tawny with a brown tip, reaching the middle- 

 hips: eyes prominent: feelers rather long, yellow towards the base; 

 second joint about twice the length of the first : fore-chest convex 

 in front, equally concave behind, with a brown spot on each side of 

 the disk near the fore border : two brown spots on each side of the 

 middle-chest: abdomen obconical, longer than the chest; upper 

 appendage of the sexual apparatus brown at the tip : legs pale 

 greenish-tawny, slightly grooved, rather broad ; hind-shanks armed 

 with two black-tipped teeth : wings broad ; fore-wings pale dull green, 

 powdered with while, somewhat tuberculate at the base, adorned 

 with dark brown dots which are mostly along the border ; fore 

 border much dilated and very convex near the base, furnished with 

 very numerous branch veins, which are mostly parallel ; a few of 

 them are forked; veins pale green: hind-wings whitish, tinged with 



