THE ENTOMOLOGIST.^^ 



Vol. LIU.] AUGUST, 1920. [No. 687 



DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES OF NEOTROPICAL 



CICADID^. 



By W. L. Distant. 



This species, presented to the British Museum by Lady Bute, 

 was collected by her son, the Earl of Dumfries, who captured it 

 while travelling across the Andes on the Argentine side. It flew 

 into the railway carriage in which he was seated. Two specimens 

 were thus obtained. 



Tettigades dumfriesi, sp. n. 



Body black ; margins before central lobe to head, narrow anterior 

 margin, anterior lateral margins and posterior margin to pronotum, 

 two central angulate, discal spots and broad posterior margins to 

 raesonotuni ochraceous ; abdomen above sparingly, greyishly longly 

 pilose, the segmental margins narrowly, somewhat obscurely dark 

 dull ochraceous, abdomen beneath more longly greyishly pilose ; 

 tegmina and wings hyaline, the venation black, the first with the 

 costal membrane, the basal cell, the apical transverse vein to radial 

 area, the inner margin to lower ulnar area, inner margin to claval 

 area, and a small spot near bases of longitudinal veins to first, 

 second and third ulnar areas and a similar spot near apex of upper 

 vein to fifth ulnar area, pale dull ochraceous, wings with greyish 

 marginal streaks to the veins on about basal half; face broadly 

 centrally longitudinally channelled. 



Long. excl. tegm. 21, exp. tegm. 58 mm. 



Hab. — Argentine side of the Andes, about 6000 ft. above sea- 

 level. 



Allied to 7'. lehruni, Dist., from Patagonia, and T. parva, 

 Dist., from the Argentine, but differing from both those species 

 by its larger size, longer and narrower lower apical area to 

 tegmina, which is more than twice as long as broad, and the 

 broadly, centrally, longitudinally channelled face. 



A THEREVID FLY IN BURMESE AMBER. 



By T. D. a. Cockerell. 



In a new lot of Burmese amber recently received from 

 Mr. Swinhoe is a small species of the Dipterous family 



ENTOM. — AUGUST, 1920. Q 



