24 LIST OF HOMOPTEROUS INSECTS. 



4. OXYPLEURA ARMATA. 



Cicada armata, Oliv. Enc. Meth. v. 748, 7, pi. 1 10, f. 3. Stoll, Cic. 



69, pi. 17, f. 94. 

 a. ? 



5. OxYPLEURA? MARMORATA. 



Tettigonia mannorata, Fahr. Syst. Rhyn. 38, 24. 



Cicada mannorata, Germ. Thon. Arch. ii. 2, 17. Silb. Rev. Ent. 



ii. 79, e. 

 This species and O. sanguiflua may be identical. 



6. OxYPLEURA sANGuiFLUA, MSS.? Mas ct Fcm. 



Nervus transversiis \us suhcursus, valde obliquus, anguliim perob- 

 tusum fingens, 2o triplo ejus longitudine divisus ; 2us curvus, 

 obliquus, angulum obtusum Jingens, lo muito longior ; 3us 

 subundatus, valde obliquus, angulum acutum Jingens ; 4us 

 subcurvus, obliquus, angulum subacutum Jingens, 3o multo 

 brevior. 



Second marginal areolet a little longer than the first : first 

 cross-vein slightly curved, very slanting, fomiing an extremely ob- 

 tuse angle, parted from the second by thrice its length; second 

 curved, slanting, forming an obtuse angle, much longer than the 

 first ; third slightly waved, very slanting, forming an acute angle ; 

 fourth slightly curved, slanting, forming a slightly acute angle, 

 much shorter than the third ; fifth curved, almost upright, forming 

 a hardly acute angle. Body tawny, rather short and broad : head 

 much narrower than the fore-chest, adorned in front with two broad 

 black bands of which the fore one includes a tawny spot ; face very 

 slightly convex : mouth reaching far beyond the hind-hips : eyes 

 not prominent : feelers black : scutcheon of the fore-chest ferrugi- 

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

 broad, much widened, and forming a nearly right angle on each 

 side: disk of the middle-chest black, adorned wiih two U-shaped 

 marks ; hind border excavated : abdomen obconical, sometimes 

 pitchy above, not longer than the chest; tymbals and drums large: 

 legs tawny ; tips of the claws black; fore-thighs hardly armed : fore- 

 wings colourless, tawny along the fore border, adorned towards the 

 base with three irregular brown bands ; cross-veins clouded with 

 brown ; flaps red : hind-wings brown, red at the base and along the 

 veins into the disk, colourless at the tips, between which and the 



