LIST OF HOMOPTEBOUS INSECTS. All 



fore-wings tawny, broad, convex above, and on the fore border near 

 the base, and on the hind border near the tips, adorned with nume- 

 rous brown dots, about a dozen on each areolet ; veins tawny : liind- 

 wings wanting? Length of the body li line ; of the wings 4 lines. 

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



13. Hystekopterom" trdncatellum, Mas. 



Fulmm ; thorax nigra maculalus ; abdomen fuacum, flavo fas- 

 ciatum ; pedes fulvi; alie antic<efulv{B, subcoriacea;, lat(B,apice 

 truntatcc. 

 Body tawny, short, broad, and very deep : head very short and 

 broad, move than half the breadth of the fore-wing ; crown extremely 

 short, adorned with contiguo\is black spots, its breadth more than 

 eight times its length ; front large, flat, subquadrate, tinged with 

 black on the fore border, the hind border and the middle longitudinal 

 ridge, its breadth less than twice its length ; epistoma small, nearly 

 heart-shaped, adorned on each side with oblique ferruginous bands: 

 mouth tawny, eyes not prominent: fore-chest very short, nearly 

 straight, adorned with black spots, its breadth more than eight times 

 its lengtli : middle chest triangular, full twice the length of the fore- 

 chest, adorned with two black spots: abdomen obconical, brown, not 

 longer than the chest ; hind borders of the segments yellow : legs 

 tawny, rather stout; hind-shanks armed with one spine : fore-wings 

 tawny, coriaceous, nearly vertical, very broad, yellowish and slightly 

 convex on the fore border, very convex and almost angular on the 

 hind border, somewhat obliquely truncated at the tips ; veins tawny ; 

 cross-veins very numerous, forming intricate ramifications: hind- 

 wings wanting. Length of the body l\ line ; of the wings 2i lines. 

 II. New Holland. Presented by the Haslar Hospital. 



Genus 4. HEMISPHCERIUS. 



Hemisphcerins, Schaum, Allg. Enc. Wisseneh. Kunst. i. Sect. 51, 



71,52. 

 Issus, Burmeisler. 



Ala; antics convexic, glabrne, elytrorum Coccinetla siroilitudine. 



Fore-wings globose, smooth, quite coriaceous, like those of a 

 beetle, such as Coccinelta or Chiiocorits. 



