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just beyond the middle; the head, pro thorax, and elytra coarsely, closely 

 punctate, and somewhat thickly clothed with long, fine, erect hairs, the abdo- 

 men minutely punctate and more sparsely pilose, the ventral surface cinereo- 

 pubescent. Head moderately broad, the intra-ocular grooves deep, the eyes 

 ratlier large. Prothorax longer than broad, convex, much narrower than the 

 head, rounded at the sides, sinuously narrowed towards the base, without 

 definite grooves or depressions on the disc. Elytra subquadrate, about as 

 long as broad, wider than the head, depressed along the suture. Fourth joint 

 of anterior and intermediate tarsi somewhat deeply emarginate, appearing 

 sub-bilobed. 



cJ. Fifth ventral segment depressed down the middle posteriorly, the 

 aiyth deeply triangularly emarginate. 



Length 6^-7 mm. ( c5' ? •) 



Kah. China, Da-zeh, near Tychau, Province of Che-kiang (Dr. P. 

 W. Bassett-Smith, ex J. J. Walker: xii.1892), Ningpo {ex coll. 

 Sharp). 



Separable from D. coerulescens Gyll. by its narrower general shape, 

 the coarsely punctured, pilose head, prothorax, and elytra, and the trans- 

 verse elytral spot. Compared with the N. American D. nitidulus Lee, 

 the prothorax and elytra are more closely and much more coarsely punc- 

 tate, the elytra longer, etc. The six examples seen are all contained in 

 the British Museum, five of them having been captured by Dr. Bassett- 

 Smith. 



Horsell. 



January 8tk, 1919. 



A NOTE ON THE BEITISH REPEESENTATIVES OF THE GENUS 

 MACR0P8IS I,Ewis; WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF TWO NEW SPECIES. 



BY JAMES EDVS'AIIDS, F.E.S. 



The genus Macropsis Lewis is composed of Cicadina having two 

 ocelli on the face, the antennae inserted beneath an oblique flange, the 

 striation of the pronotum running obliquely caudad from the middle-line, 

 an intermediate cross-vein m-cu in the elytra, and multispinose hind 

 tibiae quadi'angular in section. 



Macropsis decoratus, n. sp. 



$ , Crown brown, broadly yellow next each eye. Face greenish-yellow, 

 a black or brown point on each side just below the forehead, the comma-shaped 

 spots below the middle black, brown, or absent. Pronotum brown, becoming 

 paler at the margins, beliind each eye an irregular obloug black patch. Scu- 

 tellum bright yellow with a large black triangle on each side of the base. 

 Elytra brown in their basal half, the remainder whitish-hyaline ; cell Sc dark 



