Lampyris rufo-vittata, Schonh. Syn. Ins. 3. p. 66. No. 47.

Habitat: Rio Janeiro, Brazil.

Antennæ filiform, orbicular. Head dark brown, and retracted under the shield-like thorax, which is black, the anterior margin being yellowish. Elytra black and margined, semi-coriaceous, and crossing over one another, having a red streak from the shoulders to the apex. Abdomen black, having two spines at the extremity near the anus. Legs black and cursorial, the tibiæ being furnished with many spines.

FULGORA DIADEMA.

Plate [L]. fig. 4.

Order: Hemiptera. Suborder: Homoptera. Family: Fulgoridæ.

Genus. Fulgora, Linn.

Fulgora Diadema. Fusca, vertice, pronoti medio, elytrorum fasciâ luteis; alis purpureis, apice nigris, capitis cornu in medio dentato apice dentibus tribus majoribus. (Long. Corp. cum capitis cornu, 1 unc. 9 lin. Expans. Alar. 3 unc. 6 lin.)

Syn. Fulgora diadema, Linn. Syst. N. 1. 2. 703. 2. Fabr. Syst. Rh. 2. 3. Stoll, fig. 22. Donovan Nat. Repos. vol. 5. fol. 145.

Fulgora armata, Drury, App. vol. 3.