NEW SPECIES BELONGING TO THE FAMILY CICADID®. 155 
Poujadia parviplumella, Hmpsn., and ochridorsella, Rag., Ephestia 
cautella, Walker, Nymphula diminutalis, Snell. Tijd. v. Ent., Oligo- 
chroa asbolalis, Hmpsn., Thalassodes obnupta, Swinh., Hublemma 
brunnea, Hmpsn., Spodoptera pecten, Guen., and Boarmia leuco- 
dontata. Ireached Bombay on October 10th on the ill-fated P. &O. 
ss. ‘Maloja,’ which went down last Sunday morning, February 
27th, off Dover. We made a very short stay at Bombay. The 
following were taken on the ship: Huchloris quantula, Swinh., 
Pionea leucanalis, Swinh., Leucania howra, Moore (basilinea, 
Swinh.}, Diatrea aculeata, Hmpsn., Glyphodes laticostalis, Guen., 
Earias fabia, Stoll., and Schewnobius bipunctifer, Walker, and so 
ended my collecting for 1914. 
Apart from travelling all the way from Australia without 
deck lights, passengers were not put to much inconvenience. 
There was, of course, a certain amount of anxiety, as the career 
of the ‘Emden’ had not then been brought to a close. 
In concluding these notes I have the pleasant duty of 
acknowledging my indebtedness to Mr. EH. Ernest Green, 
Mr. Meyrick, who has named my micros, the British Museum 
officials, Sir G. F. Hampson’s ‘Moths of India, and Dr. 
Longstaff’s ‘ Butterfly Hunting in Many Lands.’ 
DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES BELONGING 
TO THE FAMILY CICADIDZ. 
By W. lL. Disrant. 
Kobonga clara, sp. n. 
Head black: base of front, a marginal spot on each side before 
eyes, a larger spot at inner margins of eyes, and a central basal spot 
between the ocelli, ochraceous ; pronotum dull castaneous, a central 
black fascia widened anteriorly and rounded posteriorly, the incisures 
and the inner basal margin also black, the inner area of the central 
black fascia and two central subbasal spots, ochraceous ; mesonotum 
black, a large rounded spot in front of the cruciform elevation and 
connected to the anterior margin by three longitudinal fascie (the 
two outermost strongly fureate) and a submarginal longitudinal spot, 
ochraceous, the central basal spot containing two transverse black 
spots; abdomen black, above with somewhat obscure and broken 
segmental ochraceous fascize, the anal segment (2) ochraceous with 
longitudinal black fasciz and spots; legs black, longitudinal streaks 
and apices to femora, apices and subbasal annulations to intermediate 
and posterior tibize and the tarsi (more or less) ochraceous ; tegmina 
and wings hyaline; tegmina with the veins black and the costal 
membrane brownish-ochraceous; wings with the venation fuscous, 
and the extreme bases of both tegmina and wings bright ochraceous ; 
body above sparsely and shortly pilose; head basally suleate between 
the ocelli; pronotum centrally longitudinally carinate, the fissures 
