Homopterous Insects of the Genus Platijijlcura. 193 



Angola, Benibe JMines {Montciro). B.M. 



The type of Platypleura Limlata is in the Banksian 

 Collection, and differs from the descriptions of Fabricius 

 and Palisot de Beauvois in having the wings mahogany- 

 red, becoming blackish externally between the nervures ; 

 neither the t}'pe nor either of our examples has the 

 hemelytra marked with a pale vitreous spot near the costa 

 towards the base, as stated by Stal ; but a distinct though 

 allied species from Sierra Leone exhibits this character, I 

 therefore suspect the latter to be the P. Liiiibata of Stal's 

 " Hemiptera Africana." 



^ 39. Platijplcura Stalina, n. sp. 



? Platyplcura Limlata, Stal, Hemipt. Afric. 4, p. 18, 

 n. 10 (1866). 



Head dull castaneous, region of the ocelli piceous ; 

 vertex dull castaneous, becoming testaceous behind; face 

 dull castaneous, covered laterally with whitish pubescence, 

 rugae sparsely clothed with pubescence ; rostrum 

 ochraceous at base, piceous towards tip ; basal joint of 

 antennas castaneous, other joints — ? : prothorax testaceous, 

 luteous in front, with the impressed markings blackish ; 

 mesothorax dark castaneous, becoming luteous and clothed 

 with testaceous pubescence at the sides, with a lateral 

 oblique black streak : metathorax dark castaneous, meta- 

 thoracic cross bright castaneous ; tergum and drum covers 

 pitchy, terminal segments whitish : venter pitchy ; anus 

 ochreous ; drums dirty testaceous, blackish at base ; pectus 

 testaceous. 



Tegmiua red-brown varied with testaceous to middle ; 

 thence hyaline va,ried with red-brown ; nervures partly 

 green, partly luteous : primary areolet blackish ; front 

 areolet enclosing an oval testaceous spet*, all the discoidal 

 areolets with diffused testaceous patches; a series of 

 whitish hyaline connected diamond-shaped markings, 

 edged with brown, runs from costal margin across the 

 second and third transverse veins, a similar isolated spot is 

 also situated upon the fourth transverse vein and is partly 



Probably tlie !<pot mentioned by Stal. 



