LIST OF HOMOPTEnOUS INSECTS. 41.J 



border: hind-wings pale gray. Length of the body 2i lines ; of the 



wings 9 lines. 



a. Jamaica. From Mr. Gosse's collection. 



17. Flatoides tenehrosus, Mas. 



Niyro-fuscus ; frons ferruffineus, tricannalus ; prothorax carinatua ; 

 mesolhorax Iricannalus ; abdomen obconicum, thiirace patdlfj 

 longitis, subius apice fulvuin : pedes fulvi : alee miticcB nigro- 

 fusca, lata, fasciis albidis inter venas omalte ; alie poHicae 

 cirierea. 

 Body blackish-brown : head as broad as the chest; crown very 

 short, very concave behind, sliifhtly convex on the fore border, it.s 

 length in the middle about half of its length on each side ; front 

 ferruginous, very mucli broader than long, rounded on each side, 

 hardly narrower towards the epistoma, flat, surronnded by a rim, 

 straight where it joins the epistoma, having three ridges, the middle 

 one approaching the epistoma, the side pair shorter and slightly 

 curved ; epistoma ferruginous, triangular, not longer than broad : 

 mouth tawny : fore-chest broadest in the middle, very convex in 

 front, more slightly concave behind, with a middle ridge ; its length 

 about one-sixth of its breadth : middle-chest full five times the 

 length of the fore-chest, with three ridges, the side pair diverging 

 backward from the middle one and terminating on the oblique sides 

 of the chest ; abdomen obconical, a little longer than the chest, 

 tawny beneath at the tip ; appendages short ; legs tawny -. fore-wings 

 blackish brown, rather broad, adorned with numerous little dingy 

 white bands between the longitudinal veins and on some of the 

 cross-veins ; longitudinal veins very numerous ; cross-veins few ; fore 

 border dilated, along it a row of oblique more or less parallel cross- 

 veins; hind-wings gray, darker towards the tips; veins blackish. 

 Length of the body 2i lines ; of the wings 9 lines. 

 a. Sierra Leone. Presented by the Kev. D. F. Morgan. 



18. Flatoides lignarius, Mas et Fein. 



Femtgineus ; frons fulvus; prothorax bicarinatm ; mesothorax 

 piceus, non carinatus ; abdomen obconicum ; pedes fitlvi ; al<e 

 anlicce ferruginea;, sat latte, macuiis nonnullis nigro-fuscis ; 

 areolarum disci sublimpidi ; al(B posticw cinereai, basi palli- 

 diores. 

 Body ferruginous : head a little narrower than the chest, crown 

 almost united with the front, not arched, with a large pitchy spot ou 



