IIuiuojjtcivHs Inaccta of the Gciias riatijplcara. Itio 



Angola, Beiiilje Mines {Moidciro). B.M. 



The type of PlatypUurci Limbata is in the Banksian 

 Collection, and dilfers from the descriptions of Fabricius 

 and Palisot de Beauvois in having the wings mahogany- 

 red, becoming blackish externally between the nervures ; 

 neither the type nor either of our examples has the 

 hemelytra mariced with a pale vitreous spot near the costa 

 towards tlie base, as stated by Stal ; but a distinct though 

 allied species from Sierra Leone exhibits this character, I 

 therefore suspect the latter to be the P. Limhata of Stal's 

 " Hemiptera Africana." 



39. PlaUjplcura Stalina, n. sp. 



? PhdJipleura Livihata, Stal, Hemipt. Afric. 4, p. 18, 

 n. 10 (1866). • - 



Head dull castaneous, region of the ocelli piceous ; 

 vertex dull castaneous, becoming testaceous behind ; face 

 dull castaneous, covered laterally with whitish pubescence, 

 rugpe sparsely clothed with pubescence ; rostrum 

 ochraceous at base, piceous towards tip; basal joint of 

 antennas castaneous, other joints — ? : prothorax testaceous, 

 luteous in front, with the impressed markings blackish ; 

 mesothorax dark castaneous, becoming luteous and clothed 

 with testaceous pubescence at the sides, with a lateral 

 oblique black streak : metathorax dark castaneous, nieta- 

 thoracic cross bright castaneous ; tergum and drum covers 

 pitchy, terminal segments whitish : venter pitchy ; anus 

 ochreous ; drums dirty testaceous, blackish at base ; pectus 

 testaceous. 



Tegmina red-brown varied with testaceous to middle ; 

 thence hyaline varied with red-brown ; nervures partly 

 green, partly luteous : primary areolet l)lackish ; front 

 areolet enclosing an oval testaceous spot*, all the discoidal 

 arcolets with diffused testaceous patches ; a series of 

 whitish hyaline connected diamond-shaped markings, 

 edged with brown, runs from costal margin across the 

 second and third transverse veins, a similar isolated spot is 

 also situated upon the fourth transverse vein and is partly 



ProbaLly tlic .sjiot iiicutioiK'il by .Stal. 



