22 LIST OF HOMOPTEnOUS INSECTS. 



ing a hardly acute angle. Body green, short, broad, tinged with 

 tawny : head very much narrower than the fore-chest, mostly pale 

 ferruginous, adorned with seven small black spots, one behind the 

 eyelets, two on eacli side, and one between two yellow spots at the 

 base of each feeler ; face very sliglitly convex, adorned with a. 

 black band : mouth yellow, tinged witli green towards the base, 

 black at the lip, extending a little beyond the drums: eyes not pro- 

 minent: feelers black: scutcheon of the fore-chest adorned with 

 five black marks, one on the hind border, two on each side on the 

 furrows, and one an each side border; hind-soutcheon broad, 

 widened on each side, where it forms a slightly obtuse angle, whose 

 sides are pitchy and rounded : disk of the scutcheon of the middle- 

 chest tawny, adorned with four black marks ; two black dots be- 

 tween the tips of the outer pair, which are obconical, and much 

 more tlian twice the length of the inner pair ; hind border very 

 slightly excavated: abdomen obconical, not longer tlian the chest ; 

 its base and the fore borders of the segments black : opercula large, 

 green ; drums green, of moderate size, overlapping : legs tawny, 

 partly green, tinged with pitchy-colour; tips of the claws black; 

 fore-feet pitchy ; fore-thighs unarmed : fore-wings colourless, brown , 

 and adorned with white and green towards the base, adorned with 

 some brown marks towards the tips ; these marks form two very in- 

 terrupted bands which are parallel to the hind border, the latter is 

 adorned with a row of clusters of three dark brown dots ; hind- 

 wings very dark brown, paler at the base, white at tlie tips and 

 along the hind border ; flaps pale brown, with white tips ; veins 

 green. Length of the body 9 lines ; of the wings 30 lines. 

 a. Cape. 



29. Platypleura simplex, Fem. 



Nermis transverstis lus subcurvus,obliqims,angulum valdd ohtusvm 

 fingens,io plus triplo ejus loiif/itudinc diitisiis ; 2us subcurvus, 

 valdi obliquus , angulum perublumm fingens, \o longior ; 3m' 

 undtUus, oblif/uus, angulum subacutum fingens ; 4u.i curvus, 

 fere erecttis, anyulmn rectum Jingens, 3o brevior. 



Second marginal areolet a little shorter than the first : first 

 cross-vein very slightly curved, slanting, forming a very obtuse an- 

 gle, parted from the second by more than thrice its length ; second 

 very slightly curved, very slanting, forming an extremely obtuse 

 angle, longer than the first; third waved, slanting, forming a 

 slightly acute angle ; fourth curved, nearly upright, forming a right 

 angle, shorter than the third ; fifth curved, slightly slanting, form- 



