87 
DESCRIPTION OF A NEW CICADA FROM WEST 
AFRICA. 
By W. L. Distant. 
Musoda gigantea, sp. nov. 
3g. Head and pronotum pale testaceous, the latter with the 
fissures darker, and the lateral and posterior margins ochraceous; 
eyes greyish-white; mesonotum dark ochraceous with darker mott- 
lings and four obconical spots at anterior margin, the two central 
spots largest ; abdomen castaneous, the posterior segmental margins, 
a narrow central longitudinal fascia, and the anal area more or less 
pale ochraceous ; body beneath pale ochraceous, the face and legs 
darker and more pale testaceous; tegmina and wings hyaline, 
venation, costal membrane to tegmina, and narrow basal suffusion 
to wings pale testaceous; head with the front conically prominent, 
anteriorly more darkly transversely striate; vertex narrowly longitu- 
dinally incised between the ocelli; face short, broad and convex, a 
short, broad, central sulecation on its anterior area, its lateral areas 
strongly transversely striate; rostrum reaching the intermediate 
coxe ; opercula not passing base of abdomen, obliquely directed 
inwardly, their apices rounded and widely separated; anterior femora 
shortly and finely toothed beneath on apical areas; pronotum some- 
what broadly, centrally, longitudinally suleate, the fissures profound; 
abdomen broad, robust, above strongly, centrally ridged, the lateral 
areas oblique, basal segment strongly, centrally, conically produced, 
beneath obliquely depressed towards apex. 
Long. excl. tegm. 3, 29 millim. Exp. tegm. 88 millim. 
Hab. West Africa; Cameroons (Conradt). British Museum. 
This is the second but larger species of the genus yet described. 
A BUTTERFLY HUNT IN SOME PARTS OF 
UNEXPLORED FRANCE. 
By H. Rownanp-Brown, M.A., F.E.S. 
(Continued from p. 60.) 
(vi) Basses-Alpes. (b) Larche. 
To speak of Larche as “‘ unexplored” is less inappropriate, per- 
haps, than would appear in view of the recorded visits made in 
past years by French entomologists. Donzel, in the “ forties,” 
collected hereabouts; but he seems not to have published the 
results of his expedition as minutely as he has recorded the 
lepidopterous fauna of Digne and the lower Basses-Alpes. It is 
to Antoine Guillemot, to Bellier de la Chavignerie, and to Berce 
that we owe the first detailed accounts of the numerous Lepi- 
doptera met with at this point of the Italian frontier; and after 
