76 [September, 



30. Neuroctenus Hochstetteri, Mayr. 

 Not uncommon. Captain Broun. 



If Walker is right in referring Aradus thoracicus, White, to the 

 genus Neuroctenus, it is possible that Iloclistetteri and thoracicus may 

 mean one and the same insect. I do not know where the latter is 

 described, if it has been described at all, which seems doubtful. 



31. Crimia attenuata, Walker. 



This I have not seen. Mr. Butler places the name of the other 

 Walkerian species {Mezira maorica) within brackets after the name 

 of this species, by which I understand him to mean that the two are 

 identical. 



32. Aneurus Brouni, Buch. White. 



Three specimens taken by Captain Broun. 



{To he continued!) 



DESCRIPTION OF A NEW HOMOPTEEOUS INSECT BELONG-INa 

 TO THE FAMILY CICADIDJE. 



BY W. L. DISTANT. 



TOSENA SPLENDIDA, U. Sp. 



(J . Body black. Face with tlie lateral borders dull reddish, with a well-pro- 

 nounced, central, longitudinal impression ; transversely costate, with the interstices 

 wide and irregularly punctate. Eyes prominent, luteous and fringed behind with 

 long hairs. Pronotum deeply furrowed, much as in T. melanoptera, white, with four 

 large luteous spots : two on the disc, sub-oval, converging from immediately behind 

 the eyes towards each other, through two-thirds of the width of the pronotum, 

 their bases widened and separated by a space of about two millimetres ; the other 

 two somewhat larger and much more irregular, occupying the posterior lateral angles. 

 Mesonotum very sparingly pilose — excepting near lateral borders, where the hairs 

 are much longer and more regularly abundant, — and with two sub-cordate luteous 

 spots on disc, parallel with the pronotal central spots, and, like them, converging 

 towards each other at base. Metauotum with two small luteous spots at base, very 

 indistinct in c? , but clearly exhibited in $ . Abdomen above pilose. Rostrum 

 black, with a small luteous spot near base, in length just reaching the posterior 

 coxfe. Body beneath and legs pilose ; femora with a wide, central, rufous band, fore- 

 femoral spines apparently well-developed (owing to a somewhat crushed condition 

 of the fore-femora in type, I am unable to give a more complete delineation), drums 

 of the usual generic size, but situated close together, and divided by a very slight 

 emargination behind. Abdomen with a longitudinal discal row of sub -triangular 

 reddish markings, the bases of which are situated on posterior borders of abdominal 

 segments. Tegmina and wings, wliere not obscured by darker markings, transparent. 



