22 LIST OF HOMOPTEEOUS INSECTS. 



ing a hardly acute angle. Body green, short, broad, tinged with 

 tawny : head very much narrower than the fore-chest, mostly pale 

 ferruofinous, adorned with seven small black spots, one behind the 

 eyelets, two on each side, and one between two yellow spots at the 

 base of each feeler ; face very slightly convex, adorned with a 

 black band : mouth yellow, tinged with green towards the base, 

 black at the tip, extending a little beyond the drums: eyes not pro- 

 minent: feelers black: scutcheon of the fore-chest adorned with 

 five black marks, one on the hind border, two on each side on the 

 farrows, and one an each side border ; hind-scutcheon broad, 

 widened on each side, where it forms a slightly obtuse angle, whose 

 sides are pitchy and rounded : disk of the scutcheon of the middle- 

 chest tawny, adorned with four black marks ; two black dots be- 

 tween the tips of the outer pair, which are obconical, and much 

 more than twice the length of the inner pair; hind border very 

 slightly excavated: abdomen obconical, not longer than the chest ; 

 its base and the fore borders of the segments black : opercula large, 

 green ; drums green, of moderate size, overlapping : legs tawny, 

 partly green, tinged with pitchy-colour; tips of the claws black; 

 fore-feet pitchy ; fore-thighs unarmed : fore-wings colourless, brown, 

 and adorned with white and green towards the base, adorned with 

 some brown marks towards the tips ; these marks form two very in- 

 terrupted bauds which are parallel to the hind border, the latter is 

 adorned with a row of clusters of three dark brown dots ; hind- 

 wings very dark brown, paler at the base, white at the tips and 

 along the hind border ; flaps pale brown, with white tips ; veins 

 green. Length of the body 9 lines ; of the wings 30 lines. 

 a. Cape. 



29. Platypleura simplex, Fem. 



Nervus transversus \us suhcurvus^ohliquus^angulwn valde ohtusum 

 fingens^2o plus triplo ejus longitudine divisus ; 2us subcurvus, 

 viilde oblkjuus, angulum perobtusum fingens, \o longior ; 3ws 

 uJidatus, obliquus, angulum subacutum fingens ; Aus curvus, 

 fere erectus, angulum rectum fingens, 3o brevior. 



Second marginal areolet a little shorter than the first : first 

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

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

 very slightly curved, very slanting, forming an extremely obtuse 

 angle, longer than the first ; third waved, slanting, forming a 

 slightly acute angle ; fourth curved, nearly upright, forming a right 

 angle, shorter than the third ; fifth curved, slightly slanting, form- 



