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less truncate and deflected in front of ej-es ; vertex prominently depressed 

 between the ocelli; abdomen robust, about as long as space between the 

 apex of head and base of cruciform élévation; opercula just passing base of 

 abdomen, their inner angles slightlj- overlapping, their apices convexly 

 truncate, their latéral margins sinuatel)' oblique; ^\nngs with the outer and 

 posterior membranal margins broad. 



Long. excl. tegm. 5, 24 millim.; exp. tegm. 67 millim. 



Hab. Belgian Congo; Kapiri (Miss. Agric. Leplae, in Musée 

 du Congo). 



Platypleura semivitrea sp. n. 



Body above brownish-olivaceous; latéral striations to front, area of the 

 ocelli, subanterior margin, a central fascia and fissures to pronotum, four 

 obconical spots fthe two central smallest and divided by a longitudinal 

 Une) a transverse angulated spot in front of the basai cruciform élévation to 

 mesonotum, and transverse segmentai fasciœ to abdomen, black; body 

 beneath and legs ochraceous ; face with the longitudinal sulcation and trans- 

 verse stiiations piceous or black ; tegmina hyaline, the venation fuscous, a 

 little more than basai third pale fuscous-brown and opaque; wings pale 

 hyaline, venation fuscous, about basai half bright ochraceous margined and 

 streaked with black; head more or less truncate and deflected in front of 

 eyes; latéral pronotal margins truncate, not augulate; opercula in maie 

 short, transverse, not meeting internally nor passing the anterior margin of 

 the basai abdominal segment; rostrum reaching the posterior coxée. 



Long. excl. tegm. 5, 17 millim. Exp. tegm. 53 millim. 



Hab. Kapiri (Mission Agric. Leplae, in Mus. du Congo). — 

 A species to be placed near P. contracta Walk. 



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