436 LIST OF HOMOPTEBOUS INSECTS. 



truncate-conical on the disk, somewhat impressed in front, with three 

 ridges, the side pair sliglitly diver(ring from the fore border : middle- 

 chest having also three sliglit ridges which arc a continuation of 

 those on the fore-chest: abdomen ohconical, not longer than the 

 chest: legs tawny ; anterior tarsi and tips of the anterior tibicE and 

 of the hind tiusi black : wings ample : fore-wings dingy white ; 

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

 fore border very convex, along it a deep row of paiallcl oblique 

 here and there forked cross-veins of equal length : hind-wings milk- 

 white. Length of the body 4i lines ; of the wings 22 lines. 

 «. Silhet. From Mr. Stainforth's collection. 



10. Flata. Maria. 

 Poeciloptera Maria, W/iita, Ann. Nat. Hist, xviii. 25, pi. 1, f. 3. 

 a,b. Silhet. From the Rev. J. Stainforth's collection. 



11. Flata completa, Fem. 



Futva, albo farinosa ; caput flavum ; antenna: nigra ; prothorax 

 viridi-ftavHs, fusco bimaculalus ; mesothorax subtricarinatus, 

 lateribus fti,'<cus ; abdomen flavum, apice subtus fiiscum ; la- 

 miiuE apicales riifo marginalae ; pedes nigri ; femora viridi- 

 flava ; tibiie pitslicce fulvce ; aire alba: ; ala anlicte rtifo ma- 

 culatfE, niyro nbliqui /aseiaiie et binutata:. 

 Body tawny, powdered with white : head pale yellow, much 

 narrower'than the chest; crown not visible above; front long and 

 narrow, with a high ridge on each side, occupying the whole upper 

 side and fore part of the bead, hnear, concave where it joins the 

 epistoma which is lanceolate and tawny ; side compartment slightly 

 concave : eyes brassy : feelers black, powdered with white ; tips of 

 the joints green ; third joint hardly longer than the second : fore- 

 chest pale yellow, tinged with green, conical on the disk, slightly 

 impressed in front, with a large l)rown spot on the vertical compart- 

 ment of each side : middle-chest with three very indistinct ridges, 

 mostly brown on each side : abdomen pale yellow, obconical, a little 

 longer than the chest, brown at the tip bcneatli, furnished with a 

 large mass of white down ; lateral plates edged with blight red : 

 legs black; thighs yellow, tinged with green, black towards the tips; 

 hind-shanks lawny: wings ample, milk white: fore-wings with a 

 bright red spot in the disk near the base, a curved and slightly ob- 

 lique black band in the disk near the tip, and behind it two short 



