10 LIST OF HOMOPTEROUS INSECTS. 



^\b. Platypleura BASiMACULA, Mas. 



Nervus transversus lus subcurvus, valde obliquus, unguium valcU 

 obtusum fingens, 2o plus triplb ejus longitudine divisus ; 2us 

 subcurvus, valde obliquus, unguium valde obtusum fin gens, \o 

 viultb longior ; 3i« curvus, valde obliquus, unguium valde 

 acutum fingens ; 4us curvus, obliquus, unguium acutum fin- 

 gens, 3i longitudine. 



Second marginal areolet nearly as long as the first : first cross- 

 vein very slightly curved, very slanting-, forming a very ohtuse an- 

 gle, parted from the second by more than thrice its length ; second 

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

 longer than the first ; third slightly curved, very slanting, forming 

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

 acute angle, as long as the third; fifth curved, forming a slightly 

 acute angle. An insect of this species has an additional cross-vein 

 in the second discoidal areolet ; and the third and fourth cross- 

 veins are much curved. Body tawny : head narrower than the fore- 

 chest ; crown adorned with two very irregular black bands ; face 

 very slightly convex : mouth tawny, with a black tip, extending to 

 the hind-hips : eyes not prominent : feelers dark tawny : fore-chest 

 broadest in the middle ; scutcheon adorned with a black stripe, 

 which joins a black band at each end; hind-scutcheon rather nar- 

 row in the middle, rounded and much widened on each side : 

 scutcheon of the middle-chest adorned with four large black marks ; 

 the outer pair obconical, the inner pair smaller and nearly round ; 

 a black spot near the tip ; hind border slightly excavated : abdomen 

 obconical, a little longer than the chest, black above, with the ex- 

 ception of the hind borders of the segments: opercula pitchy, close ; 

 drums pale tawny, slightly overlapping, less than half the length of 

 the abdomen : legs tawny, clothed with pale hairs ; claws black, 

 tawny at the base ; fore-thighs armed with very short tawny teeth ; 

 hind-shanks beset with tawny spines : fore-wings colourless, tawny 

 towards the base, whence a tawny stripe proceeds near the hind 

 border to the tip ; two irregular and oblique tawny bands beneath 

 the fore border, these tawny marks are feathered with brown ; hind 

 border slightly striped with pale brown ; primitive areolet brown ; 

 fore-flaps pale lawny ; hind-wings tawny, with a colourless border, 

 which is divided by a brown interval from the tawny part ; borders 

 of the flaps white. Length of the body 8 lines ; of the wings 23 

 lines. 



a, b. Congo. Presented by Sir J. Richardson. 



