Mr. W. L. Distant on Homopteia. 3H3 



small fuscous spot on each longitudinal vein (excluding 

 uppermost) to the apical areas ; wings semiliyaline, the basal 

 area with some pale tuliginous streaks. 



Head (including eyes) about equal in width to base of 

 mesonotum ; lateral margins of pronotuni angularly dilated ; 

 abdomen moderately long and posteriorly attenuated, about 

 as long as from apex of lace to base of cruciform elevation ; 

 rostrum reaching the posterior coxeb ; opercula small, their 

 posterior margins subtruncate, a little oblique, lateral margins 

 oblique, not meeting inwardly ; costal membrane of tegmina 

 rather broad. 



<?. Long., excl. tegra., 19-20 mm. ; exp. tegm. 58-62 mm. 



IJab. Delagoa Bay. 



This species, described from two male specimens, belongs 

 to the subgenus Oxypleura, A. & S., and, apart from colour- 

 markings, may be easily separated from allied species such as 

 P. hrevis, Walk., by tiie elongated abdomen and the con- 

 siderably broader costal membrane to the tegmina. 



Platypleura mira, sp. n. 



Head, pronotum, and mesonotum castaneous ; upper mar- 

 gins of face continued on each side to eyes, a fascia between 

 eyes (centrally obsolete), and broken basal margin to head 

 black ; basal and lateral margins to pronotum ochraceous, 

 the incisures piceous; mesonotum with two short, central, 

 contiguous, obconical spots, on each side of which is a much 

 longer spot, a spot at each anterior angle of basal cruciform 

 elevation, a small central spot to same, and a transverse spot 

 on each side of it, black ; abdomen above black, the tympanal 

 coverings and posterior margins of the segments brownish 

 ochraceous ; body beneath piceous, transverse striations to 

 face, undersides of trochanters and femora, and apical abdo- 

 minal segment more or less castaneous ; opercula testaceous, 

 "with base and apex piceous ; tegmina brownish ochraceous, 

 crossed by an irregular piceous fascia passing through radial 

 area and base of third ulnar arta and terminating on claval 

 margin, another broader and browner fascia commencing at 

 end of radial area and terminating near anterior angle of 

 lower apical area ; this fascia is outwardly fused with other 

 mottlings of the same colour wliich almost occupy the apical 

 tegminal area; wirgs ochraceous, a .-ubcentral spot extending 

 from costa to near middle of wing, and the outer margin 

 widened towards abdominal area, piceous. 



Head (including eyes) as wide as base of mesonotum ; 

 rostrum reaching the posterior coxae ; opercula broad, not 



