LIST or HOMOI'TEUOIIS INSECTS. 



4. OXYPLEURA AniHATA. 



Cicada armata, Oliv. Enc. MHL v. 748, 7, pi. 1 10, f. 3. Stall, Cic. 

 69, pi. 17, f. 94. 



5. OxyPLEURA? MABMORATA. 



Tettiffonia mannorata. Fair. Sijst. Rhyn. 38, 24. 



Cicada raarmorata, Germ. Than. Arch. ii. 2, 17. Silb. Rev. Ent. 



ii. 79, e. 

 This species and 0. sanguiilua may be identical. 



6. OxvPLEURA SANGUIFLUA, MSS. ? Mas et Feui. 



Nervus transversus l«s subcurstis, valde ohliqum, angulum perob- 

 lusum fingens, 2o triplo ejus longitudine divistis ; 2u« cunms, 

 obliijum, angulum oblumm fingens, \o multd longior ; 3m 

 subundatus, valdi obliquus, angulum acutum fingem ; Aus 

 subcurvus, obliquus, angulum subacutum fingens, 3o mullo 

 brevior. 

 Second marginal areolet a little longer than the first : first 

 cross-vein slightly curved, very slanting, forming an extremely ob- 

 tuse angle, parted fiom the second by thrice its length ; second 

 curved, slanting, fonning an obtuse angle, much longer than the 

 first; third slightly waved, veiy slanting, forming an acute angle ; 

 fourth slightly curved, slanting, forming a slightly acute angle, 

 much shorter than the third ; fifth curved, almost upright, forming 

 a hardly acute angle. Body tawny, ratlier short and broad : head 

 much narrower than the fore-chest, adorned in front with two broad 

 black bands of which the fore one includes a tawny spot ; face very 

 slightly convex : mouth reaching far beyond the hind-hips : eyes 

 not prominent : feelers black : scutcheon of the fore-chest ferrugi- 

 nous, with two black dots on the hind border; hind-scutcheon 

 broad, much widened, and forming a nearly right angle on each 

 side : disk of the middle-chest black, adorned with two U-shaped 

 marks; hind border excavated: abdomen obconical, sometimes 

 l)itchy above, not longer than the chest; tymbals and drums large: 

 legs tawny; tips of the claws black; fore-thighs hardly armed : fore- 

 wings colourless, tawny along the fore border, adorned towards the 

 base with three irregular brown bands ; cross-veins clouded with 

 brown ; flaps red : hind-wings brown, red at the base and along the 

 veins into the disk, colourless at the tips, between which and the 



