18 LIST OF HOMOPTEROUS INSECTS. 



conical, a little longer than the chest : opercula of moderate size, 

 close, siraw-colour ; drums rather large, nearly meeting, a little less 

 than half the length of the ahdomen : legs straw-colour ; tips of the 

 claws black: tips of the hind-shanks beset with a circlet of black 

 spines ; fore-thighs not much thickened, their teeth small : wings 

 colourless (white in the specimen described, which is probably imma- 

 ture); fore border and veins pale straw-colour; second, third, fourth, 

 and fifth cross-veins, and the tips of the longitudinal veins of the 

 marginal areolets, clouded with brown. Length of the body 8 lines ; 

 of the wings 22 lines. 



a. North India. From Mr. Stevens' collection. 



-^ 24. Platypleura basi-viridis, Mas. 



Nervus transversus lus subcurvus, ohliquus, unguium valde ohlusum 

 Jingens, 2o quadruplo ejus longitudine divisus ; 2usfere rectus^ 

 valde ohliquus^ angulum perobtusum fingens^ \o fere dwplb 

 longior ; ?jUS fere rectus^ valde obliquus, angulum valde acutum 

 fingens ; 4ms subcurvus, obliquus, angulum acutum fingens. 



Second marginal areolet a little longer than the first : first cross- 

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

 parted from the second by full four times its length ; second nearly 

 straight, very slanting, forming an extremely obtuse angle, nearly 

 twice the length of the first ; third nearly straight, very slanting, 

 forming a very acute angle ; fourth straight, with the exception of 

 a slight curve at its upper end, slanting, forming an acute angle, 

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

 angle. Body tawny : head a little narrower than the fore-chest, 

 adorned with two irregular black bands ; face very slightly convex, 

 adorned on each side in front with brown bands : mouth tawny, with 

 a black tip, extending just beyond the hind-hips : fore-chest broadest 

 near the fore border ; scutcheon adorned with five black marks, the 

 middle one obconical, the other four oblique ; hind-scutcheon 

 adorned with a black mark on the fore border, much widened, tinged 

 with brown, and almost angular on each side : scutcheon of the mid- 

 dle-chest adorned with four very large obconical black marks which 

 proceed from the fore border; in the angle formed by the inner pair 

 there is a dart-shaped black mark with a black dot on each side, and 

 a black band is behind each of these dots ; hind border very slightly 

 excavated ; abdomen black above ; hind borders of the segments 

 tawny : opercula yellowish, large, close ; drums yellow, large, hardly 

 apart, less than half the length of the abdomen : legs tawny, clothed 

 with pale hairs ; tips of the claws black ; fore-thighs armed with 



