196 Mr. Butler's MoiwgrcqjJiic List of the 



pubescent ; protliorax testaceous with the margins of tlie 

 lobes and the depressions black ; mesothorax dark 

 castaneous, with two subtri angular spots posteriorly, and 

 an irregular streak on each side, black ; metathorax 

 oclireous clothed with white pubescence ; tergum black, 

 with a broad patch of white tomentum on each side, the 

 margins of the segments dark castaneous; venter, drums 

 and pectus testaceous, sparsely covered with white 

 tomentum ; legs testaceous. 



Tegmina hyaline white ; base, edge of corium, and a spot 

 in the third and fourth discoidal and eighth marginal 

 areolets, silvery pubescent ; costal and internal edges 

 testaceous, costal nervures dark castaneous, remaining 

 nervures dark olivaceous ; fore-flap rosy testaceous ; wings 

 hyaline white, nervures testaceous ; nervures at base and 

 on flap bordered with semi-opaque rosy-testaceous : length 

 1 inch, expanse 3 inches, 3 lines. 



Banda ( IFcdlace). B.M. 



40. Platiiplcura {Oxypleura) Polita. 



Oxyijleura Polifa, Walker, List llomopt. Ins. 1, p. 29, 

 n. 11 (1850). 



— ? Type. B.M. 



^47. Platiiplenra {Oxyiilcura) Clara. 



Oxi/plcura Clara, Amyot & Serville, Hist. Nat. des 

 Hemipt., p. 469, n. 1 (1843). 



^Oxyvleura Passa, Walker, List Homopt. Ins. 1, p. 28, 

 n. 10 (1850). 



bOxi/pleunt Basistigma, Walker, 1. c. p. 30, n. 12 (1850). 

 Gambia ; Congo (Curror) ; Kinsembo (Ansell). B.M. 



^48. Plattipleura {Oxypleura) Brcvis. 



Platypleura Brevis, Walker, List llomopt. Ins. 1, p. 19, 

 n. 25 (1850). 



OCicada iVeurostida, Scliaum, Y^av. Ak. lierl.-, p. 359 

 (1853) ; Peters' Ileise nach Mozamb. Ins., p. 55 ; pi. 2, fig. 

 12 (1862). 



