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Show 1874.] MR. A. G. BUTLER ON NEW SPECIES OF FULGORA. 97 5. List of the Species of Fulgora, with Descriptions of N ew Forms in the Collection of the British Museum. By A R T H U R G\ BUTLER, F.L.S., F.Z.S., &c. [Received December 9, 1873.] (Plate XV.) Dr. Stal has very rightly restored the designation Fulgora to the group of Homopterous insects comprising the genus Hotinus of Amyot and Serville; this genus is confined to the Old World, most of the species occurring in the Eastern Archipelago. The following list contains the whole of the species at present known to science, with descriptions of three beautiful new species in the National Collection ; the number of species now amounts to twenty-eight. Sect. 1. Species with (when dead) orange wings. 1. FULGORA CANDELARIA. Laternaria candelaria, Linnaeus, Mus. Lud. Ulr. p. 153. n. 2 ; Act. Stockh. p. 63, pi. 1. figs. 1, 5, 6 (1746). Fulgora candelaria, Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. i. 2, p. 70. n. 33 ; Roesel, Ins.-Belust. 2, Loc. 189, pi. 30 (1749). Flata candelaria, Germar, Mant. Ent. iii. p. 189. n. I. Pyrops candelaria, Spinola, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, viii. p. 233. n. 1 (1839). Hotinus candelarius, Amyot & Serville, Hist. Nat. Hem. p. 490. n. 1. Hong-Kong (Bowring) ; Cambodia. B.M. 2. FULGORA CYANIROSTRIS. Fulgora cyanirostris, Guerin, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 2nd ser. iii. Bull. Ent. p. 96. Hotinus cyanirostris, Walker, List Homopt. Ins. ii. p. 265. n. 2 (1851). Java. 3. FULGORA BREVIROSTRIS, n. sp. (Plate XV. fig. 1.) Closely allied to F. candelaria; tegmina black, with the nervures and spots bright ochreous, disposed as in F. candelaria ; wings orange-ochreous, the apical third black; rostrum short, curved, ascending, testaceous, with paler spots ; prothorax much compressed in front, with a central longitudinal ridge and two strongly impressed black punctures ; testaceous, with a black lateral patch ; the rest of the body luteous above, mesothorax maculated with black ; abdomen below black, the margins of the segments testaceous ; legs pitchy; the coxae, and the femora of the last pair, dirty testaceous. Length PROC. ZOOL. Soc-1874, No. VII. 7 |