24 LIST OF HOMOPTEROUS INSECTS. 



CP 4. OXYPLEURA ARMATA. 



QQ, pi. 17, f. 94. 



Cicada armata, Oliv. Enc. Meth. \. 748, 7, pi. 110, f. 3. Stoll, Cic. 



O 6. OXYPLEURA? MAEMORATA. 



^ Tettigonia marmorata, Fahr. Si/st. Rhyn. 38, 24. 

 f5 Cicada marmorata, Germ. Thon. Arch. ii. 2,17. Silh. Rev. Ent. 

 ii. 79, e. 

 This species and O. sanguiflua may be identical. 



[Pq. Oxyplecra sanguiflua, MSS.? Mas et Feni. 



Nervus Iransversus li« subcursus^ valde obliquus, angulum perob- 

 tustim Jingens, 2o triplo ejus longitudine divisiis ; '2us curvus^ 

 obliquus, angulum obtusum Jingens, lo multo longior ,• 3iis 

 subundatus, valde obliquus, angulum acutum Jingens ; 4w5 

 subcurvus, obliquus, angulum subacutum Jingens, 3o multo 

 brevier. 



Second marginal areolet a little longer than the first : first 

 cross-vein slightly curved, very slanting, forming an extremely ob- 

 tuse angle, parted from the second by thrice its length ; second 

 curved, slanting, forming an obtuse angle, much longer than the 

 first ; third slightly waved, very slanting, forming an acute angle ; 

 fourth slightly curved, slantiog, forming a slightly acute angle, 

 much shorter than the third ; fifth curved, almost upright, forming 

 a hardly acute angle. Body tawny, rather short and broad : head 

 much narrower than the fore-chest, adorned in front with two broad 

 black bands of which the fore one includes a tawiiy spot ; face very 

 slightly convex : mouth reaching far beyond the hind-hips : eyes 

 not prominent : feelers black : scutcheon of the fore-chest ferrugi- 

 nous, with two black dots on the hind border ; hind-scutcheon 

 broad, much widened, and forming a nearly right angle on each 

 side : disk of the middle-chest black, adorned with two U-shaped 

 marks; hind border excavated: abdomen obconical, sometimes 

 pitchy above, not longer than the chest; tymbals and drams large: 

 legs tawny ; tips of the claws black; fore-thighs hardly armed : fore- 

 wings colourless, ta^-ny along the fore border, adorned towards the 

 base with three irregular brown bands ; cross-veins clouded with 

 brown ; flaps red : hind-wings brown, red at the base and along the 

 veins into the disk, colourless at the tips, between which and the 



