344 LIST or HOMOPTEROUS INSECTS. 



tip, reaching beyond llie hind-hips : fore-chest very short ; five fer" 

 ruginous ridges on the middle-chest whose tip is lawny : abdomen 

 obconical, not longer than the chest; hind borders of the segments 

 tawny : oviduct tawny, slender, projecting beyond the abdomen to 

 half the length of the latter : lefjs pale tawny ; thighs mostly brown ; 

 a single sptne on each hind-shank: fore-wings almost colourless, 

 pale brown at the tips : cross-veins clouded with brown ; veins pale 

 yellow, adorned with rows of very numerous little brown dots : hind- 

 wings colourless ; veins black. Length of the body 2 lines; of the 

 wings 6 lines. 

 a, b. Sierra Leone. Presented by the Rev. F. D. Morgan. 



24. Cixius TESTACEUS, Fem. 



Testaceui ; capitis vertex flavo bimaculatus ; mcsolhorax quinque- 

 carinatits, disco subfulmis ; abdomen flavo fasciatum, apice 

 albu lanuginosum ; pedes ftdvi ; alte anlicae fusca:, apice fitha 

 ant limpidie; venm flavde gutlisfuscis setijferis ornata ; ala: 

 posliea sublimpida. 

 Body testaceous : a high ridge bearing a yellow spot on each 

 side of the crown ; front and epistoma forming an almost spindle- 

 shaped compartment which is indistinctly angular on each side, has 

 a lawny middle ridge, and on each side near the base of the epistoma an 

 angular yellow streak ; front a little shorter than the epistoma : fore- 

 chest very short : five ridges on the middle-chest whose disk is almost 

 tawny: abdomen a little longer than the chest; its lip thickly 

 clothed with long white filaments : hind borders of the sesments 

 yellow beneath : legs tawny, grooved ; hind-shanks armed with three 

 spines: fore-wings brown, tawny and partly colourless towards the 

 tips ; brand brown ; veins pale yellow, adorned with rows of very 

 numerous little brown dots, each of which bears a bristle ; a few 

 cross-veins close some of the arcolets towards the tip ; hind-wings 

 almost colourless. Length of the body 3 lines; of the wings 7 



25. Cixios LAiii'KONs, Mas. 



Niger ; caputfulvo cinclum, subttis flavo bimaculatum ; mesothorax 



tricarinatm; abdomen flavo fascialam ; pedes flavi ; femora 



fusea; tibite fusco subvittatfc ; aUe auticre flavo-subfnsctB. 



Body black : crown surrounded by a tawny border which has 



a slight ridge on each side, and is rounded in front and notched be- 



