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very short yellow teeth ; hind-shanks beset with tawny spines : fore- 

 wiugs colourless, greenish towards the base, adorned with some 

 brown marks which have a tendency to form four very irregular and 

 interrupted bands ; veins green, tawny towards the tips ; hind-wings 

 greenish, with a broad brown border, on which there are two white 

 spots. Length of the body 8 lines ; of the wings 23 lines. 



a. ? 



O 25. Platypleura brevis, Fem. 



Nerims transversus Ivs vix curims, valde obliquus, angulum perob- 

 tusiim Jinyens, 2o plus triplo ejus longitudine divisus ; 2us 

 subcurvus, obliquus, angulum valde obtusum jingens, lomultd 

 longior ; 3?<5 curvu^, obliquus, angulum subacutiim Jingens ; 

 4ii^ curvus, obliquus, angulum subacutum Jingens, 3i longitu- 

 dine. 



Second marginal areolet about four-fifths of the length of the 

 first : first cross-vein hardly curved, very slanting, forming an ex- 

 tremely obtuse angle, parted from the second by more than thrice its 

 length; second slightly curved, slanting, forming a very obtuse 

 angle, much longer than the first; third curved, slanting, forming 

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

 slightly acute angle, as long as the third ; fifth curved, nearly up- 

 right, forming a slightly obtuse angle. In the left wing of the 

 insect described there is an additional cross-vein near the base of 

 the fourth marginal areolet. Body greenish tawny, paler beneath, 

 short, broad : head short and broad, but much narrower than the 

 fore-chest, adorned with two black bands, which are irregular 

 and partly united and include some tawny spots, one of them is 

 in front of the crown, the other across the face ; the latter is very 

 slightly convex, and not at all prominent : mouth pale tawny, with a 

 black tip, reaching the hind border of the drums: eyes not promi- 

 nent : feelers tawny, yellow towards the tips ; first and second joints 

 black : scutcheon of the fore-chest adorned with two irregular black 

 stripes, which in front are united in a triangle, and terminate in two 

 black dots, and are widened into angles along their outer side ; three 

 or four small pitchy or black marks on each side ; hind-scutcheon 

 very broad, with a pitchy outer border near the base of each fore- 

 wing, and forming with its wide rim an nbttise angle on each side : 

 scutcheon of the middle-chest adorned with four ferruginous stripes, 

 whose borders are black ; the inner pair are much shorter than the 

 outer pair, whose black borders are much interrupted and reduced 

 to three spots, one on each side of the base, and one at the tip ; be- 



