16 LIST OF IIOMOPTEROUS INSF.CTS. 



most as long as the first ; third slightly waved, slanting, forming an 

 acute angle ; fourth straight, slanting, forming an acute angle, longer 

 than the third ; fifth curved, forming an acute angle. Body green, or 

 green and lawny, or nearly all tawny : head much narrower than the 

 fore-chest, adorned with three black bands ; the foremost on the face, 

 short and very convex ; the other two widened and connected 

 on the region of the eyelets ; face slightly convex : mouth tawny, 

 with a black tip, reaching nearly to the hind border of the drums : 

 feelers tawny, black at the base: eyes not prominent : fore-chest 

 broadest near the middle ; two black dots in front of the scutcheon, 

 the black marks on whose sides communicate with the U-shaped 

 black mark in the middle ; hind-scutcheon widened, but hardly an- 

 gular on each side: scutcheon of the middle-chest adorned with 

 about fourteen black marks, eight of these join the fore border, and 

 four of them are obconical ; hind border very slightly excavated : 

 abdomen obconical, a little longer than the chest ; hind borders of 

 the segments adorned with black bands, some of which are inter- 

 rupted : opercula greenish, close ; drums rather large, slightly over- 

 lapping, less than half the length of the abdomen : legs tawny, 

 tinged with green ; tips of the claws black ; fore-thighs armed with 

 black teeth ; hind-shanks beset with tawny spines, which form 

 circlets at the tips: wings colourless, green towards the base, tawny 

 at the base of the fore border ; the colourless part with several 

 brown marks, which are darker on the borders of the veins than in 

 the disks of the areolcts ; veins green, lawny towards the tips ; 

 hind-wings green for more than two-thirds of the length, colourless 

 from thence to the tips ; flaps green. Length of the body 13 lines; 

 of the wings 39 lines. 



a. South Africa. Presented by Dr. A. Smith. 

 6, c. South Africa. From Mr. Argent's collection. 



22. Platypleura CKRviNA, Fern. 



Nervus transversus \us subcurvus, ohliquus, angulum ohtusum fin- 

 gens, 2o feri tripld ejus longiludine divisus ; 2us subcurvus, 

 obliquus, angulnm vaUU obtusuni fingens, \o dupUj tongior ; 

 Sits subcurvus, obliquus, unguium aculum fingens ; ius sub- 

 curvus, obliquus, angulum acutum fingens, 3o multo brevior. 



Second marginal areolet much longer than the first : first cross- 

 vein slightly curved, slanting, forming an obtuse angle, parted from 

 the second by nearly thrice its length ; second slightly curved, 

 slaitting, forming a very obtuse angle, about twice the length of the 



