LIST OP HOMOPTEBOUS INSECTS. 



19. RtcANiA HEMEROBti, Mas et Fern. 



Fulva ; frons tricarinatus, fmco maculatus ; cpisloma carinatum ; 

 mesolhorax ferrugineus, fulvo mttatus, nigro hicarinalus ; ab- 

 domen nigro vittatum ; pedes fulvi, nigro viltati ; alee iublim- 

 pidm ; ala atitioe lata:, apice fusca, fmco quinqitemaculatce ; 

 alai postica fusco vtarginaltB. 

 Body tawny : head narrower than the <;hest ; crown very con- 

 cave on the hind border, hardly convex in front, surrounded by a 

 rim, its lenjrth in the middle about half of that on each side ; front 

 prominent, forming a right anjjle on each side, rounded and slightly 

 widened towards the epistoma, straight wheie it joins the epistoraa, 

 dotted with brown, bordered by a black-edged rim which is deepest 

 towards the epistoma, having three ridges ; the side pair converging, 

 extending beyond the middle one, and united on the fore border ; its 

 length about twice its breadth ; epistoma lanceolate, with a black 

 border and a black middle ridge : fore-chest long on the middle, 

 very short on each side, very slightly concave on the hind border, 

 conical in front and apparently advancing over the crown : middle 

 chest ferruginous with a tawny middle stripe and two black oblique 

 and slightly undulating ridges: abdomen ohconical, longer than the 

 chest, with a black stripe above: legs tawny, slender, striped with 

 black : wings nearly colourless ; fore-wings ample, pale brown at the 

 lips, with two brown spots near the tips towards the hind border, one 

 on the fore border near the tip, and two by the brand which is tawny ; 

 veins black, forming many areolets of various forms in the disk, 

 forked at the tips ; along the fore border a row of parallel cross-veins 

 which are most numerous and most oblique towards the tips : hind- 

 wings edged with brown. 



Length of the body 4 lines; of the wings 13 lines. 



a, b. Ceylon. Presented by Dr. J. Hooker 



Genus 5. POCHAZIA. 



Pochazia, Amgot et Serv. Hist. Nat. Him. 528, 419. 



Cicada, Fabr. 



Flata, Fabr. 



Ricania, Guirin, Spinola. 



PoBciloptera, Westwood. 



