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Genus PHROMNIA. 



Pliroumia, Stdl, liio Jan. Hem. ii, p. 08 (1858) ; id. Hem. Afr. iv, 

 pp. 235 & 239 (180G); Atkins. J. A. S. Bern/. Iv, p. 04 (1806). 



Flata (part.), A^mj. S,->Sen: Hem. p. 521 (1843) ; Melic/i. (pait.)^;;«. 

 Hofmus. Wten, xvii, p. 203 (1902). 



T\'pe, P. limbata, Fabr., an Etliiopian specie.'^. 



TJistribntion. Ethiopian, Oriental, and ]Malayau Eegions. 



Body compressed ; head (including eyes) A'ery nuich narrower 

 than the pronotuui ; vertex oblong, its lateral margins strongly 

 ridged, its anterior margin concavely sinuate, considerably extend- 

 ing beyond the eyes ; face with two longitudinal ridges ; clypeus 

 long ; antennae elongate, rounded, second joint much longer than 

 first ; pronotum obliquely transverse, narrow, anteriorly produced 

 to between eyes, trioarinate, the area of the cariuations a little 

 raised and shield-like ; mesonotum convex, obscurely tricarinate ; 

 posterior tibiae generally bispinose ; tegmina ample, longer by half 

 than broad, as broad as wings, apical inargin rounded, costal 

 membrane broad with closely arranged transverse veins, four 

 longitudinal veins from base, the second very strongly bifurcate 

 from near middle, beyond their apices, which extend to a little 

 before middle of tegmen, the venation is densely longitudinal, with 

 a distinct line formed by transverse veins before apical margin, 

 some transverse veins on disk, and transverse veins on basal area 

 excluding central disk ; wings with oblique longitudinal veins on 

 apical costal area, some of the longitudinal veins bifurcate near 

 apical margin. 



IDS'; 



Phromnia marginella, Olio. (Fulgora) Enc Meth. vi, p. 575 

 (1791); ,sm (Phromnia), Ofv. Vet.-Alc. Fork. 1802, p. 490; 

 Atkins. J. A. S. Bene/. Iv, p. 05 (1886) ; Cotes, hid. Mus. Notes, 

 ii, p. 95, t. xvi, f. 2 (1891) ; Melich. (Flata) Ann. Hofmus. Wien, 

 xvi, p. 205 (1901). 



F'lata limbata, Htdton, J. A. S. Bene/, xii, p. 898 (1843). 



Body and legs brownish-ochraceous, in fresh specimens much 



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Fig. 20t). — I'hruiHiiia uiargindla. 

 clothed with a white cottony pubescence ; pronotum and legs more 



