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

 broad : head much narrower than the fore-chest, adorned above with 

 two black bands which are joined together on each side and include 

 several tawny s}3ots : eyes not prominent : mouth tawny with a black 

 tip, reaching a little beyond the hind-hips: feelers tawny, black 

 towards the base : scutcheon of the fore-chest adorned in front with 

 a short black band, in the middle with two black curved stripes, and 

 on the hind border with two black dots ; hind-scutcheon broad, 

 rounded and slightly widened on each side : middle-chest adorned 

 with two black U-shaped marks, with a black stripe, with two black 

 spots, and on each side with a broad, slanting, ferruginous stripe, 

 which has two black spots at its base ; hind border veiy slightly ex- 

 cavated: abdomen not longer than the chest, abruptly tapering 

 towards the tip : legs tawny, tips of the feet and of the claws black ; 

 teeth of the fore-shanks veiy small ; wings colourless ; veins tawny, 

 black towards the tips ; cross-veins indistinctly clouded with brown ; 

 primitive areolet, fore-flaps and base of hind-flaps pale fawn-colour. 

 Length of the body 9 lines ; of the wings 32 lines. 

 a. Congo. Presented by Sir J. Richardson. 



Genus 4. OXYPLEURA. 

 Oxypleura, A^m/ot et Sew. Hist. Nat. Hem. 469, 368. 



1. OxrPLEURA CLAEA ? 



Oxypleura clara? Amyotet Serv. Hist. Nat. Hem. 469, 1. 

 a. Gambia. Presented by T. Whitfield, Esq. 



2. Oxypleura limbata. 



Tettigonia limbata, Fabr. Si/st. Ent. 678, 3. Sp. Ins. ii. 319, 3, 

 Mant. Ins. ii. 265, 4.' Ent. Syst. iv. 17, 4. Si/st. Rhyn. 

 34, 5. 



Cicada limbata. OUr. Enc. Meth. v. 747,4, pi. 110, f. 1. StoU, 

 Cic. 51, pi. 12, f. 57. Gmel. Ed. Syst. Nat. i. 3, 2099, 88. 



«, h. Ashanti. From the Wesleyan Missionary Society's collection. 



('. Cape Coast. 



3. Oxypleura capitata. 



Cicada capitata, Oliv. Enc. Meth. v. 754, 34, pi. 112, f. 10. Stall, 



Cic. 76, pi. 19, f. 103. 

 Cicada nobilis, Germ. Thon. Arch. ii. 2, 9. Silb. Rev. Ent. ii. 



82, 60. 



