460 LIST OF HOMOPTEaOOS INSECTS. 



equal length : liind-wings white. Length of the body 2i lines ; of 



the wings 2 lines. 



a. SU John's Bluff, East Florida. Presented by E. Doubleday, Esq. 



47. PlECILOPTKRA QUADRATA. 



Viridi-flam ; caput breve viridi subreticulata ; thorax carinatus ; 

 aidirmen albo-flavum^ crislalum ; pedes albo-fiavi ; tibia: tarsi- 

 gueanterioraferrur/inea; ake antica virides, apice fusco gut- 

 tata, vix rotundatw ; alee postiae albidie. 

 Body pale yellow, tinged with green : head short, slightly re- 

 ticulated with green ; crown concealed or forming one segment with 

 the front, a middle ridge along the whole length ; upper part mode- 

 rately long, with slight short ridge and a tubercle on each side ; fore 

 part convex, rounded on each side, bordered by a rim, very concave 

 where it joins the epistoma, broader than long ; epistomavery slightly 

 convex, with oblique stripes on each side: tip of the mouth brown : 

 eyes very prominent : fore-chest as long as the head, very slightly 

 concave'behind, truncate-conioal in front, with a middle ridge, its 

 length on each side full half of that in the middle: middle-chest 

 with a ridge, more than four times the length of the fore-chest, with 

 a rim towards the tip where it is lengthened and pointed : abdomen 

 whitish-yellow, obconieal, crested, a little longer than the chest : legs 

 yellowish-white ; anterior tibiie and tarsi ferruginous : wings broad: 

 fore-wings green, hardly rounded at the tips along which there is a 

 row of dark brown linear dots, almost angular at the tips of the hind 

 borders; veins green; longitudinal veins few; cross-veins veiy nu- 

 merous, irregular, extending over the whole surface ; fore border 

 very convex, without a row of parallel cross-veins: hind-wings 

 whitish. Length of the body 3 lines; of the wings 12 lines. 

 a. Jamaica. From Mr. Gosse's collection. 



48. PcF.CII.OPTF.KA ACUMINATA. 



Viridi-Jlava ; caput trit/onum, acutum, subascendens : mesothorax 



tricarinatus ; pedes flavi ; altc anlioie virides, apiee truncata, 



marginc postico tuberculata: ; alw ptsticic albidce. 



Body pale greenish-yellow : head triangular, pointed, slightly 



ascending ; crown a little broader than long, bordered by a rim, with 



a middle ridge ; front Hat, widening towards the epistoma, slightly 



rounded on eacli side, bordered by a rim, much longer than broad, 



very slightly concave where it joins the epistoma, with five ridges. 



