LIST OF HOMOPTEROUS INSECTS. 



14. Issus coNCOLOR, Mas. 



Fvscus-ifulvo maculatus i thorax futvo carinatus ; abdomen subliu 

 fulvum ; pedes fulvi; atte anlicte iestaeece ; alee poslicu: nigree. 

 Body brown : head as broad as the chest, a little narrower than 

 the fore-wing near the base, slightly angular on the fore border, 

 equally concave behind, partly tawny on each side, with a slight lon- 

 gitudinal middle suture ; border tawny, ridged ; its breadth full twice 

 its length ; front large, adorned with tawny dots, widening much 

 towards the episloma, near which it is contracted and has a concave 

 fore border ; a row of impressions along each side ; middle longi- 

 tudinal ridge and that round the border slight; a more distinct con- 

 vex cross-ridge near the crown ; its length exceeding its breadth ; 

 epistoma lanceolate, about half the breadth of the front: fore-chest 

 adorned with tawny spots, a little longer than the crown, very convex 

 in the middle of the fore border, hardly concave on each side, straight 

 along the hind border ; longitudinal middle ridge and the borders 

 tawny ; middle-chest triangular, a little longer than the fore-chest, 

 with three ? tawny ridges : abdomen slightly obconical, shorter than 

 the chest, tawny beneath, with a long slender hairy incurved append- 

 age at the tip : legs tawny ; hind-shanks armed with two teeth whose 

 tips are black : fore-wings testaceous, convex but hardly dilated on 

 the fore border ; veins fen'uginous ; cross-veins pale yellow : hiud- 

 wiugs blackish, veins black. Length of the body Inline; of the 

 wings 3 lines. 



15. Issus OONSPERSOS, Mas. 



Fulvtis, nigro-guttatus, flavo slriatus ; abdomen viride, nigra fas- 

 cialum ; pedes fulvo-virides, nigra et fusca varii ; al<Bfusc(e, 

 anticie nigro punclal<e. 



Body tawny : head about one-third of the breadth of the fore- 

 wings near the base, mostly yellow on each side and behind : crown 

 much broader than long, somewhat angular in front, slightly concave 

 on the liind border, crested and black on each side ; front rather long, 

 notched next the crown, yellow with black spots along each side ;' 

 having a middle ridge which is continued along the epistoma ; the 

 latter is triangular, as long as the front, and has a row of oblique 

 black streaks along each side: mouth tawny: fore-chest a little 

 longer than the crown, straight along the bind border, very convex 

 in front, partly yellow on each side and with a yellow middle stripe, 

 adorned with numerous black dots, its length about one-fourth of its 



