LIST OF UOMOl'TEllOUS INSECTS. 



21. ClXIUS? QUINQUECOSTATUS. 



Cixiiis ? quiiiquecostatus, Duf. Reck. Iltm. 96. 



Fentastira, Amyot, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 2me Sine, v. 167, 393. 



Soulh Europe. 



22. Cixius vicARius, Mas. 



Ferrugineus ; caput fulvo-carinatum ; mesolhorax quinquecari- 

 natus, lateribus fuscus ; abdomen fmcum, apice fulvum, pedes 

 fulvi, fusco suhnotat<E ; aim anticiB sublimpidm ; wnecjlavw, 

 fusco guUatee ; vence transverscB fusco nebulosa ; al<c postic<£ 

 limjnda. 



Very nearly allied to the European species, but apparently dis- 

 tinct. Body ferruginous: crown brown wilh two tawny ridjjes 

 which are forked in front and inclose with the cross-ridge two little 

 triangular compartments ; front brown, as long as the epistoina, with 

 which it forms a spindle-shaped compartment, the latter is striated 

 across, and has a tawny rim and a tawny middle ridge which is forked 

 near the crown : mouth tawny with a black tip, reaching beyond the 

 hind-hips: fore-chest very short: middle-chest wilh five distinct 

 ridges, brown on each side : abdomen brown, obconical, not longer 

 than the chest; tip tawny: legs tawny, grooved, slightly marked 

 with brown ; hind-shanks armed with three small teeth : wings 

 nearly colourless; brand brown; vein pale yellow, adonicd with 

 rows of brown dots ; cross-veins clouded : hind-wings colourless ■ 

 veins brown. Length of the body 2} lines ; of the wings 6 lines. ' 

 a. .St. John's Bluff, Florida. Presented by E. Doubleday, Esq. 



23. Cixius MAcuLiFRONs. Fem. 



Fwcus ,• caput flam varium, sitbtm albu bimaculalum ; mesolhorax 

 carinis quinque ferrmjineis omatum, apice fulvum ; abdomen 

 fuko-fasciatum ; pedes fulvi ; femora fusca ; alar amine sub- 

 limpida apice sub fusca ; vena: flava, fusco gutlaltt ,■ vena 

 transverstB fusco nebulosa ; al<e posticce limpidtc. 

 Body brown : on each side of the crown a rather high ridge 

 which has a yellow hind border and a yellow spot on its disk, and is 

 lorked towards its fore border and incloses a little triangular com- 

 partment by means of the cross-ridge above the front ; the latter 

 »yitli the epistoma is almost spindle-shaped, and has a slight middle 

 rirtge and a white spot on each side where it is indistinctly angular ; 

 Iront a little shorter than the epistoma : mouth lawny with a black 



