140 — 



lum transversiin sat convexa, carinis destituta, ilJe antrorsum 

 sensim angustatus, basi vix vel levissime sinuatus. Tegmina 

 tota vel maximam ad partem reticulata, pone clavum valvantia. 

 Pedes crassiusculi et breviusculi; tibiis anticis femoribus trochan- 

 teribusque ad unum longitudine asqualibus, posticis spinis quinque 

 vel septem armatis. 



Fulgorce Lin., Stal (= Hotino A. et S.) proximum genus. 



a. Alis obscure fuscis. 



1. ?. tenebrosus Fabr. — Griseus vel griseo-ferrugineus, remote 



nigro-punctatus; macula oblonga hasali verticis maculaque 



angulorum basalium scutelli laevigatis; tegminibus ad margi- 



nem costalem et apicem versus parce nigro-conspersis; alis 



obscure fuscis; abdomine nigro, ventris maculis lateralibus 



ferrugineo-griseis; pedibus nigro-maculatis; capite thorace 



scutelloque ad unum plus dimidio longiore, apice distincte 



nonnihil compresso. o*. 9- Long. 34 — 38, Exp. tegm. 66 — 



70 mill. 



Fulgora tenebrosa Fabr. Syst. ent. p. 674. 8. (1775); Spec. 



ins. II. p. 314. 9. (1781); Mant. ins. II. p. 260. 9. (1787); Ent. 



syst. IV. p. 3. 9. (1794); Syst. Rhyng. p. 3. 9. (1803); Oliv. 



Enc. meth. VI. p. 568. 7. (1791); Burm. Gen. ins. Subg. Py- 



rops. tig. 1. (1846); VVestw. Trans. Lin. Soc. XVIII. p. 142. 



14. (1851). 



Fulgora africana P. B. Ins. p. 168. Hem. Pl. 19. fig. 3. (1805). 

 Flata tenebrosa Germ. Mag. der Ent. III. p. 189. 2. (1818); 

 Thon. Ent. Arch. II. 2. p. 47. 5. (1830). 



Pt/rops tenebrosa Spin. Ann. ent. VIII. p. 235. 3. (1839); 

 A. et S. Hist. des Hem. p. 492. 1. (1843). 

 Stoll. Cig. fig. 7. 

 Patria: Sierra Leona, Senegallia. (Mus. Holm., Coll. Si- 



GNORET et STAL.) 



2. P. niadagascariensis Sign. — Dilute griseo-ferrugineus, remote 

 nigro-punctatus; macula oblonga basali verticis maculaque 

 angulorum basalium scutelli lasvigatis; tegminibus prsesertim 

 ad marginem costalem et apicem versus remote nigro-con- 



