LIST OF HOMOPTEKOUS INSECTS. 



2. OxVItHACHIS SUBJEOTA. 



Nigra, albo-puhescens ; caput antice ferruginrum ; prothorads 

 carina ferruginea ; pedes rufi ; tibice dilatatce ; altelimpida; 

 alee aniicie basifulva, marginibus posticis fiisco maculattc. 

 Nearly allied to the preceding species, but is smaller ; the dorsal 

 horns are shorter in proportion and less diverging ; the bind appen- 

 dage is more inclined upward and not serrated beneath. Black, 

 clothed with whitish down : head transverse, subquadrate, flat, 

 slightly impressed, finely punctured, not much broader than long, a 

 little narrower than tlie fore-cbe.st between the shoulders, truncated 

 and ferruginous in front : fore-chest rather high in front, rather 

 roughly punctured, rising almost vertically from the head, witL a 

 ferruginous ridge ; shoulders rounded, not prominent ; horns above 

 very broad, prismatic, conical, diverging, ascending, hardly curved 

 downward ; hind side much shorter than either of the other sides ; 

 length of the boms rather less than the breadth of the chest be- 

 tween them ; bind appendage mostly ferruginous, extending very 

 far beyond tlie tip of the abdomen, inclined upward and keeled 

 beneath but not sen-aled from the middle to the tip: breast and 

 abdomen clothed with white down : legs red ; shanks widened ; 

 wings colourless ; fore-wings tawny and punctured at the base, with 

 a brown spot on the angle of the hind border ; veins stout, ferrugi- 

 nous ; four discoidal areolets. Length of the body .3 lines ; of the 

 wings 5j lines. 

 a. East Indies. 



3. OXYRHACHIS PURCICOliNIS.'' MaS. 



Oxyrhachis furcicornis ? Germ. Silb. Rev. Ent. iii. 232, 2. Fairm. 

 Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 2me Sine, iv. 2f)8, 2. 



Ferrugineo-rufa ; prolhoracis coniu posticum piceum ; pectus piceo 

 varium ; tibia: dilatata ; ahe limpida; ; alee anticic basifulvce. 

 Ferruginous-red, clothed with tawny down: head transvewe, 

 subquadrate, flat, finely punctured, a little narrower than the fore- 

 chest between the shoulders, mostly black, truncated in front : fore- 

 chest ridged, moderately high in iVont, rather roughly punctured ; 

 rhoulders rounded, not prominent ; horns above pitchy, conical, 

 spismatic, ascending, diverging, slightly inclined forward ; hind side 

 narrower than either of the other sides ; chest very narrow between 

 the horns, not more than one-third of their length ; hind appendage 



