LIST OF HOMOPTEllOUS INSECTS. 



raerous ; disks of the arcolets mostly pale ; fore border very conrex, 

 along it a row of stout parallel oblique cross-veins which slightly 

 decrease in length from the base to two-lhirds of the length where 

 they terminate: hind-wings while. Length of the body 3i Hues; 

 of the wings 12 lines. 



37. POSCILOPTEIIA CupiDO, Mas. 



Crocea, luberculala ; caput conicum, depressum, vix ascendens ; 

 thorax tricarinatus ; abdomen cristalum ; pedes Jiavi ; tarsi 

 nifi ; al(B anticiB crocece, apice tnmcata: et nifo guttata:, mar- 

 gitie pnstico luberculata ; aim pnsticie alba;. 

 Body saffron-colour, tuberculated : head conical, fiat, hardly 

 ascending ; crown concealed ; front short above, much longer and 

 with a slight middle ridge on the fore side, somewhat rounded on 

 each side, straight where it joins the epistoma ; the latter is trian- 

 gular and has a slight middle-ridge ; side compartments nearly 

 triangular : fore-chest conical, as long as the head, concave on the 

 hind border, longer in the middle than each side : middle-chest more 

 than twice the length of the fore-chest, with three slight ridges : 

 abdomen obconical, crested, a little shorter than the chest: legs 

 pale yellow ; feet and tips of the shanks red : wings broad ; fore-wings 

 saffron-colour, powdered with while beneath, 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 red dots; a stripe of red tubercles 

 along the hind border decreases in breadth from the base ; tip and 

 hind border forming a right angle; veins red: longitudinal veins 

 rather numerous, ramified ; cross-veins very numerous ; areolets 

 minutely mottled, their disks pale ; fore border slightly convex, 

 along three-fourths of it a row of oblique parallel here and there 

 forked cross-veins : hind-wings white. Length of the body 2i lines; 

 of the wings 8 lines. 



38. PCFXILOPTERA STELLAHIS. 



Lutea ; caput perbreve ; prothorax viridi marginatus ; mesothorax 

 carinalus ; tarsi suliferruffinei ; ala: antica virides, fen-w/ineo 

 maculalie, apice truncata, margine postico tuberculatte ; ala 

 postica alba. 



Body luleous: head very short; crown short, very slightly 

 arched, bordered by a rim ; front flat, a little broader towards the 



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