386 LIST OF HOMOPTEROUS INSECTS. 



tlie inner pair are the longest and between thein istlie twelfth which 

 is lonj,' and spindle-shaped : legs red, stout, furrowed ; hind-shanks 

 armed with stout spines : fore-winfis nearly colourless, slightly tinged 

 with yellow : more than one-third of the surface from the base is 

 yellowish-brown, tinged here and there with black, and includes a 

 colourless spot; towards the tip the wing is also yellowish-brown 

 with the exception of two colourless spots; the reticulated part 

 occupying about a third of the length ; veins tawny ; hind-wings 

 colourless, brown towards the tips and along the hind border. Length 

 of the body 6 lines ; of the wings 16 lines. 

 a. Port Essinsrlon. From Mr. Gould's collection. 



16. EuRYBnACHYS RUDIGINEA, Fem. 



Ferruginea maculis obscurinribtis ; metathorax fulvus,fiavn varius ; 

 abdomen fulvum,Jlavo el fusco fasciatitm ; pedes rufi ; ala antica 

 ruff-fidvie, nigra irimaeulatre, apice subfvsitB macnlisque fiavis 

 el limpidis ornalie ; al(B posticee Jlavo aut fulvo-limpida, apice 

 fttxcoe, margine pnstico albidce. 

 Body feiruginous, indistinctly marked with darker colour ; head 

 as broad as the chest ; crown very short, surrounded by a very slight 

 ridge, slightly convex in front ; face finely rugulose, very broad, sur- 

 rounded by a slight ridge, scutchcon-.shaped, forming an angle on 

 each side, and having on the middle of its fore border a concavity 

 where it joins the epistoma; mouth ferruginous, reaching the hind- 

 hips: shield very short ; concave along the hind border: hind-chest 

 tawny, partly yellow, ridged transversely : abdomen tawny, obconical, 

 a little longer than the chest, adorned with indistinct yellow and 

 brown bauds, thickly clothed at the tip with white filaments : legs 

 red, stout, clothed with very short black hairs ; hind-shanks armed 

 Willi stout spines : fore-wings tawny, tinged with pale brown in the 

 reticulated part where there are a few pale yellow and colourless ir- 

 regular spots ; a black spot on the hind border near the tip, and one 

 or two smaller black spots in the disk nearer the base; veins red, 

 bordered also with red in the basal region which occupies much more 

 than half the length of the wing, and at a distance appears wholly 

 red : hind-wings transparent, tinged with yellow or tawny, brown 

 towards the tip, whitish along the hind border ; veins ferruginous. 

 Length of the body bl — 6 lines ; of the wings 14 — 15 lines, 

 fl. New Holland. Presented by the Haslar Hospital. 

 b. ? 



