ABltOMA. 



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Genus ABROMA. 



Tibicen, subgen. Abroma, St&l, Hem. Afr. iv, p. 27 (1866). 

 Abroma, Karsch, Berl. cnt. Zeit. xxxv, p. Ill (1890). 



Type, A. guerini, Sign., from Mauritius. 



Distribution. Neotropical, Ethiopian, Oriental, and Malayan 

 Regions, and found in New Caledonia. 



Head (including eyes) wider than base of mesouotura, the eyes 

 projecting beyond the anterior angles of the pronotum, front of 

 head a little shorter than vertex, the margins of both more or less 

 continuous, the front not prominently produced aud about, or 

 nearly, twice broader than long, ocelli little more apart from eyes 

 than from each other ; pronotum about as long as head, the lateral 

 margins not ampliated, nearly straight, the posterior angles 

 moderately dilated ; mesonotum (including cruciform eleAation) 

 about as long as head aud pronotum together; abdomen mode- 

 rately robust, the tympana completely exposed ; opercula in male 

 short, oblique, passing base of abdomen ; rostrum passing the 

 intermediate coxie ; tegmina and wings hyaline, the first about 

 three times as long as broad, with eight apical areas, and with the 

 transverse vein at base of second apical area nearly vertical ; wings 

 with six apical areas. 



1672. Abroma maculicollis, Gi/er. (Cicada) Voi/. ^CoquiUe,' ZooL\\ 183 

 ( 1830) ; Atkins. J. A. S. Ben,/. liii,p. 230'(188o) ; Dist. (Tibicen) 

 Mon. Orient. Cicad. p. 131, t.'xiv, f. 23, a, h (1892). 



Body fuscous-brown or castaneous ; head with the margins of 

 front aud vertex, a central hourglass-shaped fascia to pronotum, 

 four obconical spots to mesonotum (the central pair shortest) 



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fuscous or dark castaneous ; body beneath and legs pale castaneous, 

 the face darker, and the anterior marginal area to eyes greyishly 

 tomentose ; tegmina and wings pale hyaline, the former with the 

 costal membrane pale castaneous ; opercula in male small and 

 lobately directed inwards ; the rostrum, passes the intermediate 

 coxre. 



