460 
BHYNCHOTA. 
guished from the type by having no strigil, and the posterior metatarsus 
being more or less conspicuously marked with black. Corixa prceusta 
and concinna, Fieb., socia, boldi, ivollastoni, sodalis, and cognata, D. & S. 
Oriiiocorixa, subg. n. of Corixa, id. I. c. pp. 63 & 75. Head, with eyes, 
wider than pronotum, which is impressed with transverse lines ; a strigil 
in male (? = Glcenocorisa, Thoms.). Corixa alpestris, D. & S. 
Sigara hydroporina, sp. n., G-erstacker, I. c. p. 425, Mombas. 
HEMIPTERA-HOMOPTERA. 
On waxy exudations of Homoptera : F. Walker, Ent. vi. p. 456. Honey- 
dew is not produced hj Aphides: J.D.Hooker, Gardener's Chronicle, 
July 19, 1873; cf. F. Walker, Ent. vi. p. 502. H. Doubleday, op. cit. 
p. 548, thinks Boissier de Sauvage's opinion correct that there are two 
kinds of exudation, one caused by Aphides, the other by plants. Cf. 
Boussingault, C. R. Ixxiv. pp. 87-90, and abstract and note by W. T. 
Thiselton Dyer, J. Hort. Soc. (n. s.) iv. pt. 13, pp. 1-7. 
Egg-punctures of Ceresa buhalus, F., and Pceciloptera pruinosa, Say, 
described, and both species figured with details ; C. V. Riley, Rep. Ins. 
Mo. V. pp. 121 & 122, figs. 50-55. 
On the connection of Tettigometra, Cercopis, Memhracis, and Fulgora 
with ants : E. Ferris, Pet. Nouv. 1873, p. 336. 
CiCADIDiE. 
Zygina ericetorum, J. Sahib., = rubrivittata, Leth. ; Puton, Ann. Soc. 
Ent. Fr. (5) iii. p. 25. 
Cicada septemdecim, L. ; recurrence and injuries to trees noted by 
A. S. Packard, Am. Nat. vii. p. 537. 
Ceecopid^. 
Cercopis cardinalis, sp. n., Gerstacker, I. c. p. 432, pi. xvii. fig. 10, 
Endara. 
Selenocephalus compactus, sp. n., id. I. c. p. 433, pi. xvii. fig. 11, Endara. 
Centeotid^. 
Centrotus fenestratus, p. 429, Endara, pacificus, p. 430, Mombas, spp. nn., 
Gerstacker, Z. c. 
Coloborrhis perspicillaris, sp. n., id. I. c. p. 431, See Jipe. 
lASSIDiE. 
Acocephalus interrupttas, Fieb., and polystolus, Fieb., re-described fi'om 
Britain; synonymy of British species of the genus amended; ui. are- 
nicola, Mshall., = albifrons, L., var. : J. Scott, Ent. M. M. ix. pp. 264-266. 
J. Scott, op. cit. x. pp. 22-29, 80-82, 126-131, describes the British 
species. Idiocerus confusus, Flor, fulgidus, Fab., h-album, Fieb., Bytho- 
scnpus alni, Schr., Pediopsis cereus and tiliw, Germ., fuscinervis and 
irnpurus, Boh., new to Britain. 
