LIST OF HOMOPTEnOUS INSECTS. 



20. Flatoides BiFAsciA, Fem. 



Piceus, hirlus, lulus ; from ferruyinem, caririatm ; epistoma fer- 

 rugineum, lateribus piceum ; mesolhorax non carinattis ; pectus 

 et abdomen ferruginea ; pedes fulvi ; alie anticie nigral, amplai, 

 albobifascialie, ad costam subferruginece ; alee poslicte fusca; 

 fascia basique limpidis. 



Body pitchy, hairy, broad and short : head uearly as broad as 

 tlie chest: crown straight, ven short; front slightly tuberculate, 

 rounded and ferruginous on each side, not surrounded by a rim, not 

 narrower towards the epistoma, straight at the junction, with a slight 

 middle ridge, its breadth very nearly iwice its length ; epistoma fer- 

 ruginous, triangular, pitchy on each side : mouth tawny : fore-chest 

 short, slightly arched : middle-chest not ridged : breast ferruginous : 

 abdomen ferruginous, obconica), not longer than the chest: legs 

 tawny : fore-wings black, very large, with two white bands ; veins 

 black, pale yellow on the bands; longitudinal veins not numerous ; 

 cross-veins rather numerous towards the base : fore border very con- 

 vex, partly ferruginous, along it a row of parallel, slightly oblique 

 cross-veins: hind-wings brown, colourless towards the base, and 

 having near the tip a colourless band which is shortened towards the 

 fore border. Length of the body I } line ; of the wings 5 lines 

 n. Port Natal. From M. Gueinzius' collection. 



21. Flatoides maroinatus, Fem. 



Fermgineus, granulatm ; frons picevs, glaber, lateribus ferrugi- 

 neis ; mesotkorax non carinalus ; abdomen Iteve ; pedes fulvi ; 

 alte anticcB lata, ferruginea:, apice oblique tmncatre, costa im- 

 dulata ; villa sub costa fasciaque nonnull<e fmcce ; vena lon- 

 gilndinales gultata: ; alte postica: subfuscte. 

 Body ferruginous, dull, finely granulated, broad, stoui: head as 

 broad as the chest ; crown concave along the hind border, .straight 

 in front, its length on each side nearly twice that in the middle ; 

 front pilchy, flat, shining, tawny and slightly concave where it joins 

 the epistoma, with a broad ferruginous border which is slightly im- 

 pressed, rounded on each side, not narrower towards the epistoma ; 

 its breadth much exceeding its length ; epistoma tawny, lanceolate :' 

 fore-chest slightly concave behind, more convex in' front, much 

 longer than the crown, its breadth near eight times its length : 

 muldle-chest flat, not ridged, full four times the length of the fore- 

 chest ; abdomen obconical, smooth, shining, a little longer than the 



