LIST OF IIOMOPTF.IiOUS INSECTS. 



front flat, rounded on each side, bordered by a rim, concave where it 

 joins the epistoma, wiih three jireen stripes which are united at both 

 ends, the middle one is accompanied by a ridge ; epistoma with ob- 

 lique streaks on each side ; compartment on each side small, bordered 

 by a rim but not concave: antenns rather lonf?: chest pale red: 

 fore-chest concave behind, almost truncate-conical in front, its length 

 in the middle much exceeding that on each side, adorned with a 

 green middle stripe and on each side with a green hand along the 

 fore border: middle-chest full four times the length of the fore-chest, 

 with three green stripes, the middle one accoin|)anied by a ridge: 

 legs very pale green; feet luteoiis: wings broad: fore-wings vciy 

 pale green with a luleous tinge along the lips and along the hind 

 borders, almost truncated at the lips, luberculatcd and slighlly dilated 

 along the hind borders towards tiie base ; veins green, longitudinal 

 veins very numerous ; cross-veins not numerous, a band of them 

 near to and parallel with tlic tip, and a few more in the disk ; 

 fore border sliglitly convex, along it a row of oblique parallel cross- 

 veins blending wilh those along the tip which are rather longer: 

 hind-wings while. Length of the body 2J lines; of the wings 10 

 lines. 



0. Si. John's Bluff, East Florida. Presented by E. Doubleday, Esq. 



4(). PCECILOPTEHA PllOSIMA, Jfas. 



Vindi.flttva ; ctiput perbreve ; abdomen cmlalum ; al/e antic<B vi- 

 rides, apice fere Iruncatcc, maryine postico lubercutaUe ; aim 

 posliece albte. 



Body pale yellow, tinged wilh green: head very short; cro^vn 

 very slighlly convex in from, sliorler in the middle than on each 

 side ; front flat, rounded on each side, bordered by a rim, very slightly 

 concave where it joins the epistoma, with a "middle ridge which 

 doe? not reach the epistoma, a little broader than long; epistoma 

 lengtliencd in front: tip of the mouih brown: fore-chest arched, 

 longer than the crown, a little longer in the middle than on eacli 

 side: middle-chest about four times the length of the fore-chest: 

 abdomen ohconical, crested, a litilc longer lliau the chest ; append- 

 ages tawny ; legs pale yellow, tinged with green : wings broad : 

 fore-wings pale green, almost truncated at the lips which form a 

 slighlly obtuse and somewhat rounded angle with the hind border ; 

 the latter is luberculale towards the base ; veins green ; lon<'itudinal 

 and cross-veins numerous, some of the latter forming two uninter- 

 rupted bands near to and parallel wilh the tip ; fore border convex, 

 along it a row of oblique parallel slightly curved cross-veins of nearly 



