26 LIST OF HOMOPTEROUS INSECTS. 



band, and at the tip with a white spot ; veins dark tawny ; flaps 

 brown. Len^^th of the body 13 lines ; of the wings 36 lines. 



a. ? 



8. OxypLEUEA BAsiALBA, Mas, 



Nervus transversus lus fere rectus, valde obliquus, angulum per- 

 obtusum Jingens, 2o guinquies ejus longitudine divuus ; '2us 

 subcurvus, valde obliquus, o,ngidum perobtusum /ingens, lo 

 plus duplb longior ; 3us subcurvus ^obliquus, angulum acutum 

 jingens ; 4us curvus, erectus, angulum sub acutum jingens. 



Second marginal areolet as long as the first : first cross-vein nearly 

 straight, very slanting, forming an extremely obtuse angle, parted 

 from the second by full five times its length ; second very slightly 

 curved, very slanting, forming an extremely obtuse angle, a little 

 more than twice the length of the first ; third very slightly curved, 

 slanting, forming an acute angle; fourth curved, upright, forming 

 a slightly acute angle. Body yellow, clothed with white hairs, 

 covered beneath with white powder : forehead adorned with a black 

 band in front and behind, and with a stripe of short black bands on 

 each side ; cheeks also with slender black bands : eyes tawny : eye- 

 lets red: feelers tawny with black bands and tips: fore-chest adorned 

 with seven small black marks : middle-chest adorned with three 

 black stripes, the side pair oblique, the middle one straight, widened 

 on each side by the fore border, and having a small black spot on 

 each side near the hind border : abdomen black ; drums, tip and 

 hind borders of the segments yellow: legs yellow, clothed with 

 short white hairs ; tips of the claws black ; hind-shanks beset with 

 tawny spines ; foie-lhighs armed beneath with two small teeth : 

 wings colourless, white at the base above, brown at the base be- 

 neath : from this brown hue a short tawny stripe proceeds along the 

 hind border, and communicates with an oblique brown band which 

 crosses the wing near its base; hind-wings colourless, dark brown 

 with a whitish outline for near half the surface from the base which 

 is tawny ; flaps dark brown ; veins tawny, pitchy at the tips of the 

 fore-wings. Length of the body 9 lines ; of the wings 29 lines. 



a. North Bengal. From Miss Campbell's collection. 



