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by the superficial resemblance of these two generically distinct 

 species. In Sassula Stål only three veins are emitted from 

 the basal cell and the radial vein is almost always forked, the 

 sLibradial vein starting from the radial veiu more or less far 

 from its base. In Detya Dist. four veins are emitted from the 

 basal cell, the radial and subradial veins start from the same 

 point, and the radial vein is always simple, the venation thus 

 being very similar to that of Stål's genera Miriza, Mindura, 

 and Nogodina. To Detya also belongs Nogodina sublineata 

 Walk., Mel. I agree with Jacobi (D. ent. Z. 1915, p. 310) 

 that Nogodina Stål is restricted to the neotropical region 

 and contains, as far as is hitherto known, only one species: 

 reticulata Fabr. — In his »Zikadenfauna Madagascars und der 

 Comoren »^ Jacobi enumerates the genus Pochazioides^ among 

 the genera endemic in Madagascar,^ doubting its occurrence 

 in East Africa, biit as also ScH^nDT has described some East- 

 african species of this genus, there is no reason to doubt that 

 the habitat of P. exilis Mel. was correct. Both Distant's 

 description and his figures show that the genus Privesana 

 Dist. is a straight synonym of Pochazioides Sign. Distant 

 compares his genus solely with Privesa, and the only stated 

 difference is exactly the one separating Pochazioides from 

 Privesa. — The Eastafrican Pochazioides conspersus Mel. 

 (Wien. ent. Zeit. 1905, p. 287) is said to ha ve »Stirne länger 

 als breit, ohne Kiele», the clypeus is »in der jVIitte und an den 

 Seiten gekielt», and the vertex is shaped much as in Miriza 

 Stål. This species has certainly nothing to do with Pochazioi- 

 des, but belongs to the Bladinaria (if this division is maintained), 

 apparently forming a new genus more related to Bladina Stål 



^ VoELTZKOw'a Reise in Ostafrika, Bd III, S. 517—552, Taf. 32, 33 

 (1917). 



' This name is derived from Pochazia and can not be written *Po' 

 chazoides^K 



' In the same work Jacobi states that the Tettigometrine genus Hilda 

 KiRK. and the Jassid genus Paraholocratua Fieb. are restricted to the 

 Ethiopian and Lemurian regions, but as a mattor of fact Hilda is distri- 

 buted from Africa and Madagascar through Ceylon (H. inusta Mel.) and 

 India {H. bengalensia DisT., tenaaserimensia Dist., malayenaia Dist.) to Java 

 (flT. Jacobaoni Bierm.) and the Philippine Islands {H. brevicepa Stål). In 

 his list of the species of this genus Baker (Philipp. Journ. Se. 1915, p. 138) 

 has omitted the Eastafrican H. elegantula Gebst., Mitt. Mus. Hamb. 1892, 

 p. 57, and H. pulchra Carl., Ann. Mus. Genova XXXV, 125 (1895). — As 

 to Paraholocratua, this genus is well known also from the Nearctic, Pale- 

 arctic and Indomalayan regions. 



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