LIST OF IIOMOPTKIIOUK INSECTS. 



11. OXYPLEURA POLITA, Fem. 

 Nerviis tratisversus lusfere rectus, nhliqims, unguium viitdi abtu- 

 sumjingens, 2o pltts sextics ejus longitudine divisus ; 2us sub- 

 cttrvus, vahU obliquus, anj/n/uiii valdi' obluswn fimjcns, \o du- 

 plo lonffior ; 3us subundatns, ubli(juus, anffulum subaculiwi 

 fingens ; ius curvus, obliqum, angulum acutum fingens, \u 

 brcvior. 

 Second marginal areolet a little longer than the first : first cross- 

 vein nearly straight, slanting, forming a very ohtuse angle, parted 

 from the second by more than six times its length ; second very 

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

 twice the length of the first; third slightly waved, slanting, form- 

 ing a slightly acute angle ; fourth curved, slanting, forming an 

 acute angle, shorter than the third ; fifth abruptly curved, forming 

 a slightly acute angle. Body tawny, shining, clothed with whitish 

 hairs, which are mostly beneath, and on the abdomen : head much 

 narrower than the fore-chest, adorned with two black bands; the 

 fore one forming two curved lines on the face, the hinder one 

 widened over the region of the eyelets, on each side of which there 

 is a black dot ; face very slightly convex : mouth tawny, with a 

 black tip, reaching far beyond the hind-hips: eyes not prominent : 

 feelers black : fore-chest broadest in the middle ; scutcheon adorned 

 with a short black stripe, and with a transverse black mark ; fur- 

 rows blackish ; hind-scutcheon widened on each side, and forming 

 a black, obtuse, and projecting angle, whose sides are slightly con- 

 vex: scutcheon of the middle-chest adorned with four black ob- 

 conical stripes ; the outer pair twice the length of the inner pair, 

 and each including an indistinct tawny spot at the base ; in the 

 middle there is a club-shaped black mark, with a black dot on each 

 side; hind-border very slightly excavated : abdomen black, obconi- 

 cal, not longer than the chest ; a tawny band on the hind border of 

 each segment: drums tawny, black at the base, far apart, rather 

 small : legs tawny ; feet and fore-shanks mostly pitehy ; tips of the 

 claws black ; fore-thighs armed with very short and blunt blackish 

 teeth : wings colourless, tawny at the base and along the fore 

 border ; cross-veins clouded with dark brown ; a few pale brown 

 spots on the longitudinal veins, and two rows of brown spots on the 

 veins of the marginal areolcls ; veins tawny ; a black dot on the 

 primitive areolet, which is pale tawny ; veins of the hind-wings pale 

 yellow, some of them black ; tips 'of the marginal areolels clouded 

 with brown ; base of the wings and of the tlaps tawny, of which 

 hue there are some slight streaks extending along the veins. Length 

 of the body 12 lines; of the wings 39 lines. 



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