246 [November, 



DESCRIPTION OF A NEW GENUS AND SPECIES OF CICADID.^ 

 FROM SOUTH AFRICA. 



BY W. L. BIST ANT. F. E. S. 



Subfam, TIBICININ^. 



Division MELAMPSALTARIA. 



BTJYISA, gen. nov. 



(? . Vertex traiisvcvso, longer than front, with throe hmgitudinal Tiirrows, in- 

 cliuiing i-yes a little hroader tlian pronotum ; head beneath broadly trniitiversc 

 bi-tween eyes, the face prominent, subgloboso ; pronotum about as long as vertex 

 and front togetlier, the lateral margins nearly straight, tiie posterior angles mode- 

 rately produced outwardly ; mesonotum longer than pronotum, its disc moderately 

 convex ; abdomen as long as space between the apes of head and base of cruciform 

 elevation ; tympana entii-ely exposed ; opercula transverse, not meeting medially 

 nor extending beyond the base of abdomen ; abdomen beneath with the lateral 

 margins laminatcly produced and strongly deflected, the basal segment prominent; 

 rostrum reaching the intermediate coxte ; tegmina short and broad, only about 

 twice as long as broad, costal margin arched, a little sinuate near ba^e, bases of lower 

 vein to radial area and upper vein to lower ulnar area fused, apical areas short, 

 broad, and only seven in number ; wings with five apical areas. 



Allied to Pauropsnlta by the wings possessing five apical areas, 

 but differing from all the other allied genera of Melampsaltaria by 

 the tegmina, which possess only seven short, broad, apical areas. 



BUTISA UMTATj;:, sp. n. 



<J. Body above black ; vertex with a longitudinal ochraceous spot between the 

 ocelli, which are red ; pronotum with the lateral and posterior margins and a central 

 longitudinal line obscui'ely ochraceous ; mesonotum with two central longitudinal 

 fasciae, its lateral margins, the angles of the cruciform elevation and the basal margin 

 of the metanotum ocliraceous ; abdomen above with the segmental margins greyish 

 pilose, the lateral areas of the segmental margins and two spots on both the apical 

 segment and the anal appendage, testaceous ; body beneath and legs pale ochraceous ; 

 face excluding basal spot and lateral margins, space between face and eyes, spots to 

 coxae, streaks to femora, apex of rostrum, metasternum, and a central longitudinal 

 fascia to abdomen, black ; extreme lateral margins of abdomen reddish -ochraceous ; 

 tegmina and wings hyaline, the venation mostlj' ochraceous, tegmina with the costal 

 area ochraceous, the post-costal vein black. 



Long. excl. tegm. $ , 10 mm. Exp. tegm. 25 mm. 



Kah. : South Africa ; Trauskei, Buntingville near Umtata (Miss 

 F. Barrett, Brit. Mus.). 



'J'he type of this species was collected by Miss Barrett, and pre- 

 sented to the Museum by the late C. (J. Barrett. 



Steine House, Sulliurst Road, 



South Norwood, S.E. : 

 October Qlh, 1907. 



