94 Mr. W. L. Distant’s descriptions of new 
Suborder HOMOPTERA. 
Fam. CICADIDA. 
Carineta fimbriata, n.sp., Walk. MS., in Brit. Mus. ; 
Dist. MS., in Whym. Trav. Great Andes, Append., 
p. 119, n. 31, woodcut (1892). 
Head and pronotum above ochraceous ; the abdomen castaneous ; 
the former moderately pilose, the last strongly so; ocelli red; eyes 
sometimes greyish, sometimes black; pronotum with two con- 
tiguous central black spots at anterior margin, united posteriorly 
and extending in a central line to edge of posterior margin; on 
each side of these is a rounded black spot, followed by an oblique 
looped marginal spot; mesonotum with four obconical black mar- 
gined spots at base, the two central shortest, behind which is a 
black spot, subquadrate in shape, with a central lanceolate pro- 
duction ; abdomen thickly covered with greyish pile. Body be- 
neath strongly pilose, the sternum more or less ochraceous, the 
abdomen dark castaneous; legs ochraceous, the anterior femora 
subannulated at base and apex with blackish, the intermediate and 
posterior femora streaked beneath with blackish; anterior tarsi 
blackish, intermediate and posterior tarsi with the bases and apices 
blackish ; rostrum castaneous, the apical half castaneous; tegmina 
and wings pale hyaline ; tegmina with the basal half of the vena- 
tion more or less ochraceous, the remainder fuscous; costal area 
and membrane ochraceous ; a spot at the end of radial area, a spot 
at the base of second and third apical areas, a small spot beneath 
radial area, and the ‘‘ limbus enervis”’ from apex of lower ulnar area 
to base, fuscous ; some obscure marginal spots on apical third of 
costal and on the whole of outer margins; wings with a central 
fuscous spot, and the abdominal area margined with the same 
colour. 
Long. 21 millim.; exp. tegm. 70 millim. 
Hab. Nanegal (8—4000 ft.), Quito (9350 ft.), Mach- 
achi (10,000 ft.). 
I had previously received this species from Ecuador, 
where it seems to be of a somewhat abundant character. 
It is named C. fimbriata, Walk., in the collection of the 
British Museum, but I have failed to find any published 
description of the species. 
