10 LIST OF HOMOPTEROUS INSECTS. 



15. Platypleura basimacula, Mas. 



Nervus transversus lus subcurvus, valde obliquus, unguium valde 

 obtusum Jingens, '2o plus triplb ejus longitiidine divisiis ; '2us 

 subcurvus, valde obliquus, angulum valde obtusum fingens, \o 

 inultb longior ; 3ms curvus, valde obliquus, angulum valde 

 acutum fingens ; Aus curvus, obliquus, angulum acutum fin- 

 gens, 'Si longitudine. 

 Second marginal areolet nearly as long as tlie first : first cross- 

 vein very slightly curved, very slanting, forming a very obtuse an- 

 gle, parted from the second by more than thrice its length ; second 

 slightly curved, very slanting, forming a very obtuse angle, much 

 longer than the first ; third slightly curved, very slanting, forming 

 a very acute angle ; fourth slightly curved, slanting, forming an 

 acute angle, as long as the third ; fifth curved, forming a slightly 

 acute angle. An insect of this species has an additional cross- vein 

 in the second discoidal areolet ; and the third and fourth cross- 

 veins are much curved. Body tawny : head narrower than the fore- 

 chest ; crown adorned with two very irregular black bands ; face 

 very slightly convex : mouth lawaiy, with a black tip, extending to 

 the hind-hips : eyes not prominent : feelers dark tawny : fore-chest 

 broadest in the middle ; scutcheon adorned with a black stripe, 

 which joins a black band at each end; hind -scutcheon rather nar- 

 row in the middle, rounded and much widened on each side : 

 scutcheon of the middle-chest adorned with four large black marks ; 

 the outer pair obconical, the inner pair smaller and nearly round ; 

 a black spot near the tip ; hind border slightly excavated : abdomen 

 obconical, a little longer than the chest, black above, with the ex- 

 ception of the hind borders of the segments: opercula pitchy, close ; 

 drums pale tawny, slightly overlapping, less than half the length of 

 the abdumen : legs tawny, clothed with pale hairs ; claws black, 

 tawny at the base ; fore-thighs armed with very short tawny teeth ; 

 hindlshanks beset with tawny spines : fore-wings colourless, tawny 

 towards the base, whence a tawny stripe proceeds near the hind 

 border to the tip ; two irregular and oblique tawny bands beneath 

 the fore border, these tawny marks are feathered with brown ; hind 

 border slightly striped with pale brown ; primitive areolet brown ; 

 fore-flaps pale tawny ; hind-wings tawny, with a colourless border, 

 which is divided by a. brown interval from the tawny part; borders 

 of the flaps white. Length of the body 8 lines ; of the wings 23 

 lines. 

 a, b. Congo. Presented by Sir J. Richardson. 



