LIST OF HOMOPTEROUS INSECTS. 



*^11. Platypleura signifera, Mas. 



Nervus transversus \us subcurvus, vaUe obliquus, angulum valde 

 obtusum fingens, 2o ejus longitudine quadruplo divisus ; 2us 

 subcurvus, valde obliquus, angulum valde obtusum Jingens , \n 

 inultb longior ; 3m5 subundatus, valde obliquus, angulum acu- 

 tum jingens ; 4ms subcurvus, obliquus, angulum subacutum 

 fingens, 3o paullb brevior. 



Second marginal areolet full live-sixths of the length of the 

 first: first cross-vein slightly curved, very slanting, forming a very 

 obtuse angle, parted from the second by four times its length ; second 

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

 much longer than the first; third slightly waved, very slanting, 

 foiming an acute angle ; fourth slightly curved, slanting, forming a 

 slightly acute angle, a little shorter than the third; fifth curved, 

 forming a nearly right angle. Body black, powdered with white 

 beneath and on the tip of the abdomen : head much narrower than 

 the fore-chest, adorned on each side with a waved tawny band 

 which has a tawny spot behind it ; two small almost connected yel- 

 low spots on the face which is very slightly convex : mouth tawny 

 with a black tip reaching nearly to the hind-hips : eyes not promi- 

 nent : feelers black : fore-chest tawny, broadest in the middle ; disk 

 of the scutcheon mostly black ; hind-scutcheon broad, widened and 

 almost angular on each side, which bends very slightly upward and 

 has a black border : sides, cross ridge and hind border of the 

 scutcheon of the middle chest tawny ; hind border hardly evcavated : 

 legs dark tawny, powdered with white ; fore-shanks, fore-feet, and 

 tips of the other feet black ; fore-thighs armed with two very short 

 and blunt black teeth ; hind-shanks beset with tawny spines : fore- 

 wings brown, partly gray, and feathered with brown, adorned with 

 nine irregular colourless spots ; hind borders colourless, slightly 

 streaked with brown, and communicating with a parallel row of 

 semicircular colourless spots; veins black, partly tawny ; hind-wings 

 tawny, dark brown on one-third of the surface towards the borders, 

 which are whitish with a row of small pale brown marks near the 

 brown part ; the latter is adorned with a colourless spot in each 

 wing; veins tawny, partly black. Length of the body 9 lines ; of 

 the wings 27 lines. 



a. South Africa. Presented by Dr. A. Smith. 



