388 Mr. A. G. Butler on new Species of 'Platyipleviva,. 



ful, shining, with a few scattered coarse shallow punctures; 

 the tibise very coarsely spinose, anterior femora with two acute 

 needle-like spines at about the middle of tlie inferior margin ; 

 anterior tibiai very short, pyramidal in shape, the spines radia- 

 ting ; tarsi of all the legs rather short, smooth, without pads ; 

 ventral segments finely and irregularly striated in a transverse 

 direction. Length (exclusive of humeral horns) 48 millim., 

 with horns 54; of pronotum, including horns, 17 millim. ; 

 width 23 millim., of mesonotum 24 millim., of metauotum 

 26 millim. 



South India. 



4. Dicellonotus morsus, sp. n. 

 ? . Allied to the preceding species, from which it may be 

 at once distinguished by the following structural characters : — 

 Pronotum considerably narrower, slightly retlexed in front, 

 and with a rather deep almost semicircular excision of the 

 anterior margin, giving the impression of two flattened short 

 protuberances, but quite unlike the humeral horns of the pre- 

 ceding species ; the remainder of the pronotum very similar, 

 though decidedly narrower, longer, and more convex ; the 

 abdominal segments are coarsely and regularly punctured 

 almost all over, though more finely towards the dorsal region, 

 the sides, however, are not rugose ; the anterior femora have 

 three needle-like spines, instead of two, on the inferior margin ; 

 and the head is decidedly longer and less cordiform. Length, 

 including anterior processes, 47 millim. ; pronotum between 

 the processes 12 millim., including them 14 millim.; width 

 20 millim., mesonotum 23 millim., metauotum 25 millim. 



South India. 



XL. — Descrijjtionsoftwo new Species of the Homopterous Genus 

 Platypleura from Madagascar. By Arthur G. Butler, 

 F.L.S., F.Z.S., &c. 

 The first species to which I have to call attention was ob- 

 tained in 1879, from a collection made by Mr. Kingdon in 

 Antananarivo. It has hitherto stood in the collection with P. 

 madagascariensis of Distant, but is more nearly allied to P. 

 gigas. It differs from both species in its inferior size, narrower 

 head and notum, the almost rectangular anterior angles of the 

 pronotum ; and (being a female) it naturally differs in its 

 small rounded lateral drum-flaps. 



From F. gigas it also differs in the decidedly less prominent 

 membrana costaj of the tegmina, and from P. madagasca- 

 riensis in its longer and less hairy face. 



