LIST OF H0M0PTER0U8 INSECTS. 



side, and will) a slender white middle stripe : abdomen obconical 

 wliitisli-fjveen, a liltle longer than the chest, crested above ; upper 

 appendages inclined downward, forming an obtuse angle, and meet- 

 ing the lower appendage which is curved upward and is furnished 

 withupright lawny spines: legs pale green ; feet partly tawny : wings 

 broad ; fore-wings pale green, tuberoulate along the hind border to- 

 wards the base, truncate at the tips, along which and along the 

 adjoining pans of the fore border and of the hind border there is a 

 row of brown dots; hind angles hardly acute; veins green ; cross- 

 veins very numerous ; disks of the areolels colourless ; fore border 

 convex; along it a row of parallel, slightly oblique, here and there 

 forked, cross-veins which are shorter and irregular towards the lip : 

 hind-wings while. Length of the body 3i — 4 lines ; of the wings 

 11 — 12 lines, 

 a, b. Hong-Kong. Presented hy J. C. Bowring, Esq. 



36. PcEciLOPTEB-i pnoDi'crA, Mas. 



Lutea, subcmnpressa ; caput conicum, vix ascendens ; thorax tri- 

 carinatus ; abdomen cristatum ; pedes ■poslici virides ; alte 

 antica virides, apice truncatte el fuscn ffutlattc, margine ■pnstico 

 tuberculatte ; areolarum disci limpidi ; al<e posticie alba. 

 Nearly allied to P. sinensis, hut differing in the shape and 

 neuration of the fore-wings Body luteous: head conical, hardly 

 ascending, terminating in a sharper tip than that of P. sinensis; 

 crown concealed ; front convex, short and with a middle ridge above, 

 flat, much longer and broader and bordered by a rim on the fore side, 

 slightly concave where it joins the epistoma which is triangular; an 

 oval slightly concave compartment on each side surrounding the eye 

 and the feeler, the brislle of the latter is black : thorax slightly 

 compressed: fore-chest conical, green, tubcrculate, with a middle 

 ridge and somewhat reticulated wilh ridges on each side, slightly 

 concave at the tip ; its length on each side about half of that in the 

 middle, but it lengthens again towards the breast : middle-chest near 

 thrice the Icnglh of the fore-chest, with three ridges, the middle one 

 more strongly marked than the side pair which are slightly curved 

 outward : abd(mien obconical, hardly longer than the chest, crested 

 above ; appendages at the tip much like those of P. sinensis : legs 

 pale luteous ; hind-legs pale green : wings broad; fore-wings green, 

 tuberculate along ihe hind border for two-thirds of the length from 

 the base, truncate at the tips, along which and along the adjoining 

 parts of the fore border and of the hind border there is a row of 

 brown dots; hind angles acute; reins green; cross-veins very nu- 



