LIST OF HOMOPTEROUS INSECTS. 



9. OXYPLEUKA Bupo, Mas. 



Ncrinis Iransversus \tis subcurvus,nbliquus, angulum valde nbtusum 

 flngens, 2o plus iiuadruplo ejus lonyiludine divisrts ; 2«.« sub- 

 curvus, valcU obliquus, angulum valde obtusum fingens. In 

 feri duplo longior ; 3usfere rectus, vahU obliquus, angulum 

 subacutum fingens ; Ausferi rectus, obliquus, angulum sub- 

 acutum fingens, 3o paullb brevior. 



Second raavginal areolet nearly as long as the first: first cross- 

 vein very slightly curved, slanting, forming a very ohtuse angle, 

 parted from the second by more than four times its length ; second 

 slightly curved, very slanting, forming a very obtuse angle, nearly 

 twice the length of the first; third nearly straight, very slanting, 

 forming a slightly acute angle ; fourth nearly straight, slanting, 

 forming a very slightly acute angle, a little shorter than the third ; 

 fifth curved, forming a slightly acute angle. Body tawny ; head 

 and chest very broad : head much narrower than the fore-chest, 

 adorned with two black irregular bands, the hinder one passing 

 over the region of the eyelets ; face very slightly convex : mouth 

 tawny, with a black tip, reaching the hind border of the drums; 

 eyes not prominent; feelers black : fore-chest broadest in the middle; 

 scutcheon adorned with a blackish mark in the middle; furrows 

 blackish ; hind-scutcheon pale tawny, ferruginous, much widened, 

 and forming a very projecting right angle on each side : scutcheon 

 of the middle-chest ferruginous ; hind border very slightly exca- 

 vated: abdomen ferruginous, shorter and narrower than the chest, 

 tawny at the tip and beneath : opercula tawny, partly pitchy, close ; 

 drums tawny, rather large, nearly meeting, less than half the length 

 o£ the abdomen, their disks darker : legs tawny ; tips of the claws 

 black ; fore-thighs armed with two extremely short and blunt tawny 

 teeth; wings with an extremely slight tawny tinge, tawny towards 

 the base, bright tawny along the fore border ; veins tawny, darker 

 towards the tips ; cross-veins darker. Length of the body 12 lines ; 

 of the wings 39 lines. 

 a. East India. Presented by Sir R. H. Inglis. 



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