Descriptions of fovr nev: species of Cicadidse. 477 



ochraceous. Wings hyaline, rather more than basal half opaque, 

 pale ochraceous. 



Head including eyes a little narrower than l>ase of mesonotum. 

 Lateral margins of the pronotum obtusely angulated. Eostnim 

 reaching the basal abdominal segment. Opercula slightly overlapping 

 at their inner margins. 



Long. excl. tegm. ^ 23 millim. Exp. tegm. 78 millim. 



JIab. Angola (Monteiro). 



Flatypletira pemhanaySTp.vi. 



Head and thorax above olivaceous, abdomen piceous, the apical 

 segment cretaceous ; body beneath with the head, sternum, legs, 

 rostrum, and opercula olivaceous, the abdomen piceous. Head, with 

 the lateral margin of front, area of ocelli connected by a transverse 

 fascia with eyes, inner margin of eyes, and a spot on each anterior 

 angle of vertex, black. Pronotum, with the incisures, a longitudinal 

 spot on each side of disc, and two small spots at eentre of inner basal 

 margin, black. Mesonotum, with two obconical spots on anterior 

 margin, on each side of which is a short and a long oblique spot, and 

 a spot at the anterior angles of the basal cruciform elevation, black. 

 The body is sparingly greyishly pilose, and the central base of the 

 abdomen above somewliat olivaceous. Tarsi and apex of rostrum, 

 piceous. 



Tegmina opaque, bay-coloured er pale brownish-ochraceous, with 

 darker macular shadings, of which the most distinct are three in the 

 radial area, irregular in the four upper ulnar areas, apical margins 

 of tlie ulnar areas, and a more or less distinct double outer marginal 

 series separate^ by the veins ; venation greenish. Wings very dark 

 castaneous, the venation pale reddish, apical and posterior margin 

 pale fuscous, somewhat greyish near anal area. 



Head broad, and with eyes about equal in width to anterior margin 

 of mesonotum ; lateral margins of pronotum obtusely angulated ; ros- 

 trum reaching basal segment of abdomen ; opercula very slightly 

 overlapping at inner margins ; face strongly transversely striate and 

 with a very broad central longitudinal sulcation. 



Long. excl. tegm. (J and $ 25 to 26 millim. Exp. tegm. 80 millim. 



ffah. Pemba Island (Uast Africa). 



Explanation of Plate XVT, 



[See explanation facing the Plate.] 



