26 LIST OF HOMOPTEROUS INSECTS. 



band, and at the tip with a white spot ; veins dark tawny ; flaps 

 brown. Length of the body 13 lines ; of the wings 36 lines. 



<^8. OxyPLEUEA BASIALBA, MaS. 



Nervms transversus lus fere rectus, valde obliqutis, angulum per- 



oblusum fingens, 2o quinquies ejus longitudine divisus • 2us 



subcurviis, valde obliquus, angulum perobtusum fingens, lo 



plus duplo longior ; dus subcnrvus, obliquus, angulum acutum 



jingens ; 4w5 curvus, erectus, angulum subacutum fingens. 



Second marginal areolet as long as the first : first cross-vein nearly 

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

 from the second by full five times its length ; second very slightly 

 curved, very slanting, forming an extremely obtuse angle, a little 

 more than twice the length of the first ; third very slightly curved, 

 slanting, forming an acute angle; fourth curved, upright, forming 

 a slightly acute angle. Body yellow, clothed with white hairs, 

 covered beneath with white powder: forehead adorned wiih a black 

 band in front and behind, and with a stripe of short black bands on 

 each side ; cheeks also with slender black bands : eyes tawny : eye- 

 lets red : feelers tawny with black bands and tips : fore-chest adorned 

 with seven small black marks: middle-chest adorned with three 

 black stripes, the side pair oblique, the middle one straight, widened 

 on each side by the fore border, and having a small black spot on 

 each side near the hind border: abdomen black; drums, tip and 

 hind borders of the segments yellow : legs yellow, clothed with 

 short white hairs ; lips of the claws black ; hind-shanks beset with 

 tawny spines ; fore-lhighs armed beneath with two small teeth : 

 wings colourless, white at the base above, brown at the base be- 

 neath : from this brown hue a short tawny stripe proceeds along the 

 hind border, and communicates with an oblique brown band which 

 crosses the wing near its base; hind-wings colourless, dark brown 

 with a whitish outline for near half the surface from the base which 

 is tawny ; flaps dark brown ; veins tawny, pitchy at the tips of the 

 fore-wings. Length of the body 9 lines ; of the wings 29 lines. 



a. North Bengal. From Miss Campbell's collection. 



