Homopterous genus Pyrops. 445 
Flata tenebrosa, Germ., Mag. Ent., ili., p. 189, 2 
(1818) ; Thon., Ent. Arch., ii., 2, p. 47, 5 (1830). 
Pyrops tenebrosa, Spin., Ann. Ent., viii., p. 235, 3 
(1889) ; A. & 8. Hist. des Hém., p. 492, 1 (1843) ; 
Walk. (part), List. Hom., ii., p. 268, 2 (1851). 
Pyrops tenebrosus, Stil, Hem. Afr., iv., p. 140, 1 
(1866); Gerst (part), in Decken, Reise, 3, 2, 
p. 426, 63 (1878). 
Hab. Wrst Arrica: Senegal, Sierra Leone (Stal). 
East ArricA: Zanzibar (coll. Dist.), Delagoa Bay 
(S. Afr. Mus. and coll. Dist.). 
2. Pyrops flammeus. 
Cicada flammea, Linn., Cent. Ins., var., p. 16, 39 
(1768). 
Fulgora flammea, Linn., Syst. Nat., ed. xii, 1, 2, 
p. 704, 7 (1767); Fabr., Syst. Ent., p. 674, 7 
(1775) ; Spec. Ins., ii., p. 814, 8 (1781); Mant. 
Ins., ii., p. 260, 8 (1787) ; Ent. Syst., iv., p. 3, 8 
(1794) ; Syst. Rhyng., p. 3, 8 (1803); Westw., 
Trans. Linn. Soce., xviii., p. 148, 15 (1851). 
Cicada laternaria fusca, deGeer, Mém., iil., p. 200, 3, 
ted. fw (1773): 
Pyrops flammeus, Stal, Hem. Afr., iv., p. 141, 3 (1866). 
Hab. West Arrica: Isubu, Angola (coll. Dist.). 
This species is differentiated from P. tenebrosus by its 
much shorter cephalic process. Its precise habitat was 
unknown to Stal, who redescribed the unlocalised speci- 
men in deGeer’s collection. 
3. Pyrops madagascariensis. 
Pyrops madagascariensis, Sign., Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., 
ser. 8, vol. viil., p. 183, 15 (1860); Stal, Hem. 
Afr., iv., p. 140, 2 (1866). 
Hab. Mapaaascar (coll. Sign.) ; Ins. Anjoana (Stal). 
Of this species Stal remarks: ‘‘ P. tenebroso maxime 
affinis, processu capitis apice quam prope apicem haud 
magis compresso, sed lateribus ante medium parallelis 
instructo divergit; au distinctus?” Subsequently Sig- 
noret (Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., ser. 6, vol. vi., p. 27 (1886) ), in 
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