LIST OF HOMOPTEliOUS INSECTS. 



49. Centbotus aorifasoia, Mas et Fein. 



Ater ; prothorax aniici fiavo fasciatus, pnstMJlavo bivillatus ; fem. 

 abdomen bast ferrugineum, subtus flavo bivittatum ; pedes fer- 

 ruginei ; femorapicea ; tibi<e intermedia Jtavie ; tibice posticte 

 apice flavw ; al<e anticte fuscie, apicibiis marginibusque posticis 

 pallidiores, costce basi limpido viaculai<e. 

 Deep black, shining : head transverse, smoolli, a little narrower 

 than the fore-chest between the slioulders, slightly impressed at the 

 base of the face, hardly retuse along the fore border; face heart- 

 shaped, prominent, nearly as long as the hinder part of the head : 

 fore-chest convex, roughly punctured, rather shallow, slightly in- 

 clined backward and with a bright yellow arched hand above the 

 head ; shoulders angular, hardly prominent ; horns above them 

 rather long, prismatic, ascending, diverging, very slightly curved 

 backward, tapering from the base to the tips which are acute; their 

 length rather exceeding the breadth of the chest between them ; 

 bind appendage rather flat, slightly keeled, not nearly extending to 

 the tip of the abdomen, tapering from the base to the tip which is 

 very slender, witli a bright yellow stripe extending from the middle 

 of each side to the base of the shoulder-horn : a stripe of pale yellow 

 down on each side of the breast, and a bright yellow stripe on each 

 side beneath the abdomen of the female which is feiTuginous towards 

 the base: legs ferruginous ; thighs pitchy; middle-shanks yellow ; 

 hind-shanks yellow towards their tips : fore-wings dark brown, much 

 paler towards the tips and along part of the hind border, with a 

 colourless spot on the fore border near the base ; veins pilchy, pale 

 yellow on the colourless part : hind-wings paler. Length of the 

 body 2^ — 3 lines ; of the wings 5 — 6 lines. 

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



50. CENTaoTos PLATYCERus, Fem. 



Aler ; cornua apice ferruginea ; abdomen subtus flavum, apice 

 piceum; pedes picei ; genua ferruginea ; alw antica subfitsca, 

 basi nigra, casta basijlavo maculata: ; al<B postica sublimpida. 

 Deep black, shining : head transverse, finely and thinly punc- 

 tured, a little narrower than the fore-chest between the sho\ilders, 

 indistinctly ridged, very slightly retuse in front ; face heart-shaped, 

 prominent, ridged, a little shorter than the hind part of the head ; 

 fore-chest convex, moderately deep, indistinctly ridged, roughly 



