14 LIST OF HOMOPTEROUS INSECTS. 



O 19. Platypleura punctigera, Mas. 



Nervus transversus lus suhrectits, subohliquus, angulum ohtusum 

 Jingens, 2o quadruplo ejus longitudine divisus ; 2us subrectus, 

 valde obliquus, angulum valde obtusum Jingens, lo plus duplo 

 longior ; 3m5 subcurvus, valde obliquus, angulum acutum fin-' 

 gens ; 4us subctirvus, subobliquus, angulum subacutum fin- 

 gens, So paullo brevior. 



Second marginal areolet more than five-sixths of the length of 

 the first: first cross-vein nearly straight, slightly slanting, forming 

 an obtuse angle, parted from the second by about four times 

 its length ; second nearly straight, very slanting, forming a very ob- 

 tuse angle, more than twice the length of the first; third very 

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

 slightly curved, slightly slanting, forming a slightly acute angle, a 

 little shorter than the third ; fifth curved, forming an acute angle. 

 Body grassy-green : head much narrower than the fore-chest ; 

 crown adorned with two irregular black bands, and with two black 

 dots near the eyes ; face slightly convex, adorned with a circlet of 

 black marks ; mouth tawny, with a black tip, reaching the hind- 

 hips : eyes not prominent : feelers tawny ; second joint black: fore- 

 chest broadest in the middle ; scutcheon adorned with four black 

 dots, two in the disk and two on the hind border; hind-scutcheon 

 adorned with a black stripe, widened, and forming a distinct angle 

 on each side: scutcheon of the middle-chest adorned with two short 

 black streaks on the fore border, and with four black dots on the 

 hind part ; hind border very slightly excavated : abdomen obconi- 

 cal, longer than the chest; its disk brown and shining for a short 

 distance from the bjise : drums green, of moderate size, not apart, 

 less than one-third of the length of the abdomen : legs green ; tips 

 of the feet and of the claws black ; fore-thighs armed with three 

 long, oblique black teeth ; hind-shanks beset with black spines : 

 wings colourless, green at the base and along some part of the fore 

 border ; disks of the areolets adorned with slight pale brown streaks : 

 cross-veins clouded w'ith darker brown, of which there are two rows 

 of spots along the hind border, and a larger brown mark near the 

 convex fore border towards the base ; veins green, tawny towards 

 the tips ; hind-wings pale green. Length of the body 10 — 12 lines ; 

 of the wings 28 — 30 lines. 



a, b. Natal. From M. Gueinzius' collection. 



