28 LIST OF HOMOPTEROUS INSECTS. 



10. OXYPLEUEA PASSA, MtlS. 



Nervus transversus, Jus subcurvus, valde obliqnus, angulum valde 

 obtusum fingens^ 2o quadruplf) ejus longitudine divisus ; 2ms 

 subcumis, obiiquus, angulum valde obtusum Jingens, lo 

 pauUv longior ; ^us subcurvus, obliquus, angulum subacutum 

 Jingens ; 4us subcurvus. vix obliquus, angulum rectum Jin- 

 gens^ 3o paullo longior. 



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

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

 gle, parted iVom the second by four times its length ; second very 

 slightly curved, slanting, forming a very obtuse angle, a little longer 

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

 acute angle ; fourth very slightly curved, hardly slanting, forming 

 a right angle, a little longer than the third ; fifth curved, forming 

 a slightly acute angle. Body tawny : head much narrower than 

 the fore-chest, adorned with two irregular black bands, the hinder 

 one widened over the eyelet-region, which has a black dot on each 

 side ; face slightly convex : mouth tawny, with a black tip, reach- 

 ing some distance beyond the hind-hips ; eyes not prominent : feelers 

 black : fore-chest broadest in the middle •, scutcheon adorned with 

 a oliib-shaped black mark ; furrow^s blackish ; hind-scutclieon, with 

 a black streak above the base of each fore-wing, much widened, and 

 forming a very projecting right angle on each side : scutcheon of 

 the middle-chest adorned with four pitchy obconical marks ; the 

 inner pair distinctly angular, darker than the outer pair, and rather 

 more than half their length, and pointing towards two black dots; 

 hind border very slightly excavated : abdomen obconical, a little 

 longer than the chest : opercula large, close ; drums meeting be- 

 neath, of moderate size, less than half the length of the abdomen : 

 legs tawny ; feet and tips of the shanks pitchy ; claws black ; fore- 

 thighs armed with three very short and blunt tawny teeth ; hind- 

 shanks beset with tawny black-tipped teeth : wings tinged with pale 

 tawny ; a black spot on the primitive areolet ; veins tawny : cross- 

 veins' mostly black. Length of the body 11 lines; of the wings 

 36 lines. 

 a. Congo, Presented by Sir J. Richardson. 



