LIST OF HOMOPTEBOUS INSECTS. 



Group 3. Fairin. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 2me Sirie, iv. 304. 



16. OXYOONIA ALLIACEA. 



Oxygonia alliacea, Fairm. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 2i»e Sirie, 



304, 11. 

 Entylia alliacea, Germ. Silh. Rev. Ent. iii. 249, 7. 

 a — c. Brazil. Presented by John Miers, Esq. 



17. Oxygonia zebbina. 



Oxygonia zebrina, Fairm. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 2me Sirie, iv. 305, 

 12. 



Venezuela. 



18. Oxygonia viriddla. 



Oxygonia viridula, Fairm. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 2me Sirie, iv. 305, 



1.3. 

 Bogota. 



19. Oxygonia altiprons. 



Pulva ; prothoracis carina JIava, nigro vittata ; comu nii/rum, 

 conicum ; abdomen ferrugineum, apice piceum vel nigrum ; 

 pedes rufi,- tibiis tanisque nonnunqvam piceis ; alac limpidte ; 

 al<e anticie ad costam picece, macula apicali limpida ; alic 

 posticiB ad cosUe apicem cinerece. 



Body tawny : head triangular, transverse, thinly punctured, 

 hairy in front, pitchy and slightly impressed on the disk, narrower 

 than the fore-chest ; middle ridge very indistinct ; hind border of 

 the face angular, occupying about half the length of the head : fore- 

 chest roughly punctured, ridged, vertical in front and forming a 

 black conical horn, which sends forth a black stripe to each shoulder, 

 the latter is very obtusely angular and not prominent ; three ridges 

 on each side of the horn, from whence the fore-chest forms a bright 

 yellow keel, which extends far beyond the tip of the abdomen, whose 

 sides it embraces ; its dorsal ridge is black, and it has seven or 

 eight slight ridges on each side, and is black at the acute tip, and 

 thence aJong part of the lower border: abdomen ferruginous, pitchy 

 or black towards the tip : legs red ; shanks and feet sometimes 

 pitchy : wings colourless ; fore-wiugs punctured at the base and 



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