LIST or HOMOPTEBOUS INSECTS. 



chest ■ segments towards the tip edged with black : legs tawny, 

 rather broad ; hind-shanks armed with two stout spines whose tips 

 ■ire black: fore-winjis ample, ferruginous, obliquely truncated at the 

 tips by the fore border, slightly undulating and liaving a brown band 

 from thence to the hind border, brownish along the fore border and 

 with two or three undulating brownish bands in the disk ; veins fer- 

 ruginous ; longitudinal veins dotted, numerous towards the tips; 

 cross-veins very numerous in the disk ; fore border convex toward 

 the base, slightly concave toward the tip, along it a row of more or 

 less parallel and oblique cross-veins which are most numerous towards 

 the tip : hind-wings pale brown, little more than half the length of 

 the fore-wings; veins ferruginous. Length of the body 3 lines ; of 

 the wings 10 lines. 



22. Flatoides retbaotus, Fem. 



Fermqineus, granulatus ; frons piceus, glaher ; mesolhorax mn 

 carinatus; pedes fidm ; ala anticre lata, fm-ruginea, fmco 

 raria;, ohliqu^ Iruncatai, albo fasciala: ; alee posticte subfuscte. 

 Body ferruginous, dull, finely granulated, broad, stout : 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 pitchy, flat, shining, slightly emarginate where it joins the epis- 

 toma, with a broad border which is slightly impressed, rounded on 

 each side, not narrower towards the epistoma, its breadth much ex- 

 ceeding its length ; epistoma ferruginous, lanceolate : mouth tawny : 

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

 than the crown, its breadth near eight times its length : middle-chest 

 Hat not ridged, full four times the length of the fore-ehest : abdo- 

 men obconical, smooth, shining, a little longer than the ehest: legs 

 tawny rather broad ; hind-shanks armed with two stout spines 

 whose tips are black : fore-wings ample, ferruginous, mottled with 

 brown, obliquely truncated at the tijis by the fore border, slightly 

 undulating and'with a brown band trom thence to the hind border, 

 adorned with an elliptical short white band in the disk ; veins darker 

 or paler according to the colour of the wing ; longitudinal veins 

 numerous ; cross-veins few ; fore border very slightly undulating, 

 alon" it a row of parallel cross-veins which are much more numerous 

 and more oblique near the tip than towards the base : hind-wings 

 pale brown ; veins darker. Length of the body 3 lines ; ol the 

 wings 10 lines, 

 rt. Sierra Leone. Presented by the Rev. D. F. Morgan. 



