PLATYPLEUBA. 



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1536. Platyplenra polita, IFalk. (Oxypleura) List Horn, i, p. 29 

 (18.jO) ; B/ifL Cisf. Entom. \, p. 196 (1874) ; Dist (Poecilo- 

 psaltria) Mon. Orient, dead. p. 7, tab. i. f. 16, a, b (1889> 



Head, pronotum, and mesouotum brownish-oc-hraceous ; head 

 with some spots on front and a broken transverse fascia between 

 eyes blacJv ; pronotum witli one or two central spots and the 

 incisures black ; mesonotum Avith four obconical spots (of which 

 the two central are shortest), a central lanceolate spot, and two 

 small spots in front of cruciform elevation black ; abdomen black, 

 with the tympanal coverings, posterior margins of most of the 

 segments, and a spot on each side of anal segment ochraceous ; 



Fig. 33. — Platypleura polita. 



head beneath, sternum, legs, and opercula ochraceous, a narrow 

 , fascia between eyes, and interior area of opercula, black ; abdomen 

 beneath as above, but more castaueous than black ; tegmina and 

 wings pale hyaline, the veins brownish-ochraceous ; tegmina with 

 transverse veins at bases of apical areas, costal membrane and 

 area, and sometimes other spots as shown in the above figure, 

 fuscous-brown. 



Length excl. tegm. 23 ; exp. tegm. 70 ; breadth between pronotal 

 angles 12 to 12| millim. 



Hah. Karwar, Canara, Trivandrnra. 



CO. Fronotal margins subtruncate, not medially angulale. 



1537. Platyplenra cervina, Walh. List Horn, i, p. 16 (1850) ; Atkins. 

 J. A. S. Bentj. liii, p. 217 (1885); Dist. (Pcecilopsaltria) Mon. 

 Orient, dead. p. 8, tab. v, f. 12 a, h (1889). 

 Platypleura straminea, Walk. List Horn. \, p. 17 (1850). 



Brownish-ochraceous, lateral and posterior margins of pronotum 

 and abdomen a little paler, and mesouotum a little darker in hue ; 

 mesonotum with two obscure central anterior obconical spots ; 

 tegmina and wings hyaline strongly tinged with pale ochraceous, 

 the veins of both and costal membranes and area of tegmina 

 ochraceous ; transverse veins at bases of third, fourth, fifth, 

 seventh, and eighth apical areas to tegmina margined with pale 

 fuscous, and sometimes a small spot of the same colour on the 



