PLATTPLEUEA. 



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beneath, sternum, legs, rostrum, and opercula ochraceous ; a 

 transverse fascia between eyes, inner margins of eyes, and apex 

 of rostrum black ; abdomen beneath castaneous, posterior seg- 

 mental margins and apex ochraceous ; tegmina hyaline or talc-like, 

 about basal half creamy opaque, shaded with pale fuscous, and 

 more or less defined by an indistinct curved pale fuscous fascia, 

 costal membrane and area and the veins dark ochraceous, trans- 

 verse veins at bases of second, third, fourth, fifth, and seventh 

 apical areas slightly inf uscate ; wings stramineous for about two- 

 thirds their area from base, outwardly margined with fuscous, 

 remaining area pale hyaline, the veins dark ochraceous ; rostrum 

 passing postez'ior coxa3. 



Length excl. tegm. 22 to 23 ; exp. tegm. 64 to 68 ; breadth 

 between pronotal angles 11 millim. 



Hah. iJeccan {Coll. Dist.). China; Chusan {Ind. Mus.). 



bbb. Tegmina and wings with the base of first and the wliole of 

 second opaque. 



c^. Pronotal margins amjyliate, very obtusely medially angulate. 



d'. Rostrum reaching middle of abdomen. 



1540. Platypleura watsoni, Bist. (Pcecilopsaltria) A. M. X. H. (6) 



XX, p. 18 (1897). 



2 . Head, pi'onotum, and mesonotum brownish-ochraceous ; head 

 with transverse margin to front, a spot above base of antennae, 

 area of ocelli, and transverse fascia connecting same with eyes 

 black ; pronotum with incisures and two central fasciae black ; 

 mesonotum with four obconical spots (the central two shortest), a 



Fig. 34. — Platypleura watsoni, § . 



central lanceolate spot, and two small spots in front of cruciform 

 elevation black ; abdomen piceous, ochraceously pilose, segmental 

 margins ochraceous ; sternum, legs, rostrum, and opercula dull 

 ochraceous ; face with the central sulcation and a transverse fascia 

 between eyes black ; abdomen beneath as above, but not ochra- 

 ceously pilose ; tegmina talc-like, veins brown, brownish at base, 

 with three irregular transverse brown fasciae enclosing rounded 

 creamy spots, a double row of outer marginal spots situate on 



