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mistake may have arisen, as he thinks likely, from confusion 

 between the two somewhat similar names, but it seems to me 

 still more probable that Sorhagen entirely overlooked Machin's 

 name, which is given without address or date and in a singularly 

 inconspicuous position, and, at a cursory glance, took the whole 

 page as a contribution from Maling, whose name and address 

 are printed at the foot of it. It occurred to me some time ago 

 that Sorhagen must have written "Maling" for "Machin," and 

 a footnote to my paper was penned to this effect, but having only 

 in mind Machin's later note (Entom. xx. 110-11), which proved 

 to have been published the year after Sorhagen's work, I had no 

 explanation to offer of how such a mistake could have arisen, 

 and substituted the footnote, published in Entom. xxxviii. 276, 

 for the original one. 



Norden, Corfe Castle : Dec. 11th, 1905. 



DESCRIPTION OF A NEW FIJIAN SPECIES OF 



CICADID^. 



By W. L. Distant. 



Subfam. Cicadin^. 



Div. DUNDUBIAEIA. 



Little is known of the Cicadidse found on these islands, 

 but from what little is known, the species are large and distinct. 

 More than twenty years ago I described two species from the 

 Fijis, and have not seen another specimen from the islands save 

 the two which prompt this note. 



Saicda I vitiensis, sp. n. 



$ . Head and prouotum ochraceous ; front of head with a central 

 line more broadly bifurcating anteriorly, pale castaneous ; area of the 

 ocelli piceous-black ; pronotum with the anterior margin and the 

 fissures pale castaneous, and with a central fascia only denoted by its 

 darker margins, which are more defined posteriorly ; mesonotum 

 piceous-brown, the lateral margins and two discal fasciate lines ochra- 

 ceous, four obconical spots only denoted by their darker margins, of 

 which the two central are shortest ; abdomen above piceous-brown, its 

 base and lateral areas transversely palely pilose ; body beneath and 

 legs ochraceous ; base and apex of face, and bases and apices of femora 

 and tibias, brownish or piceous ; tegmina and wings hyaline, the vena- 

 tion ochraceous, becoming piceous towards apical areas, tegmina with 

 the costal membrane brownish ochraceous, basal venation of the upper 

 ulnar area pale ochraceous, transverse veins at bases of second, third, 

 fourth, fifth, and seventh apical areas infuscated, and a series of small 



