Homojyfc'iws Insects of the Genus Platypleura. 197 



Oxijpleu.ra Sohrina, Stal, Ofvers. Veteiisk. Akad. For- 

 handl., p. 89, n. 1 (1855). 



Oxyijicura Pairuclis, Stal, Inc. cit, p. 90. n. 2 (1855). 



Port Natal {Gueinzius) ; E. Africa {^ipeke) ; S. Africa 

 (Liviiuf stone). Type. B.M. 



49. Platypleura {Ox.ypleura) Simplex. 



Plati/pleura Si'mp)lex, Walker, List Homopt. Ins. 1, p. 22, 

 u. 29 (1850). 



Congo. Type. B.M. 



Stal, in his " Hemiptera Africana,' 4tli vol., p. 22, sinks 

 this as a synomyn of P. Neurostieta of Schaum, = &/-cris 

 Walker. 



■ 50. Platypleura {Oxypleura) Cancscens. 



Oxyplmra Canescens, Walker, Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool. x., 

 p. 83 (1867). 



Aru Islands (Tr«//«^^). Type. B.M. 

 Allied to P. Clara. 



51, Platy2')leura {Oxypleura) Niveonotata, n. sp. 



Head and vertex black, spotted with testaceous ; face 

 ash-colonred with the rugas yellowish ; rostrum testaceous, 

 becoming black at tip; basal joints of antennae black, 

 terminal joints testaceous ; prothorax testaceous with a 

 central longitudinal black spot, (enclosing a mark like the 

 letter Y), and the depressions, black ; mesothorax reddish 

 olivaceous, with two subtriangular central spots and a 

 lateral streak, pitchy, edged without by a bright testaceous 

 line ; hinder region of mesothorax and metathorax densely 

 covered with white tomentum ; metathoracic cross luteous ; 

 tergum luteous varied with piceous with the margins of 

 the segments greenish ; drum covers dull piceous ; venter, 

 pectus and drums testaceous, sparsely covered with wliite 

 tomentum ; venter, clothed at the sides with long hairs ; 

 legs testaceous varied with piceous, and black at the knees ; 

 the tarsi of the two front pairs pitchy, of the hind pair 

 testaceous ; 



Tegmina hyaline white, the costal margin and nervures 



