16 LIST OF HOMOPTEROUS INSECTS. 



most as long as the first ; third slightly waved, slanting, forming an 

 acute angle; fourth straight, slanting, forming an acute angle, longer 

 than the third ; fifth curved, forming an acute angle. Body green, or 

 green and tawny, or nearly all tawny: head much narrower than the 

 fore-chest, adorned with three black bands ; the foremost on the face, 

 short and very convex ; the other two widened and connected 

 on the region of the eyelets ; face slightly convex : mouth tawny, 

 with a black tip, reaching nearly to the hind border of the drums : 

 feelers tawny, black at the base : eyes not prominent : fore-chest 

 broadest near the middle ; two black dots in front of the scutcheon, 

 the black marks on whose sides communicate with the U-shaped 

 black mark in the middle ; hind-scutcheon widened, but hardly an- 

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

 about fourteen black marks, eight of these join the fore border, and 

 four of them are obconical ; hind border very slightly excavated : 

 abdomen obconical, a little longer than the chest ; hind borders of 

 the segments adorned with black bands, some of which are inter- 

 rupted : opercula greenish, close ; drums rather large, slightly over- 

 lapping, less than half the length of the abdomen : legs tawny, 

 tinged with green ; tips of the claws black ; fore-thighs armed with 

 black teeth ; hind-shanks beset with tawny spines, which form 

 circlets at the tips : wings colourless, green towards the base, tawny 

 at the base of the fore border ; the colourless part with several 

 brown marks, which are darker on the borders of the veins than in 

 the disks of the areolets ; veins green, tawny towards the tips ; 

 hind-wings green for more than two-thirds of the length, colourless 

 from thence to the tips ; flaps green. Length of the body 13 lines; 

 of the wings 39 lines. 



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



b, c. South Africa. From Mr. Argent's collection. 



A 22. Platypleura cervina, Fem. 



Nervus transversns \us subcurvus, obliquua, unguium obtusum fin- 

 gens, 2o fere triplo ejus longitudine divisus ; 2us subcurvus, 

 obliquus, unguium valde obfusum jingens, \o duplo longior ; 

 ^us subcurvus, obliquus, unguium ucutum fingens ; Aus sub- 

 curvus, obliquus, unguium ucutum jingens, 3o multo brevior. 



Second marginal areolet much longer than the first: first cross- 

 vein slightly curved, slanting, forming an obtuse angle, parted from 

 the second by nearly thrice its length ; second slightly curved, 

 slanting, forming a very obtuse angle, about twice the length of the 



