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X. Additions to a knowledge of the Homoptcrous Family 

 Cicadidse. By W. L. Distant. 



[Read March 1st, 1905.] 



Plate XL 



Being engaged in an attempt to revise the classification 

 of the Cicadidse and to prepare a synonymic catalogue of 

 the Family, 1 have been entrusted with much material 

 belonging to other collections in order that my purview 

 may be as extensive as possible. I have thus come across 

 a number of undescribed species, and this paper refers 

 only to those belonging to the subfamily Gicadintv. Of 

 these I found in the collection belonging to the Paris 

 Museum, some beautiful species from Madagascar, which 

 are probably among the finest in the whole family 

 Cicadidie. A striking species of Pycna from Natal, is from 

 the Stockholm Museum. 



Family CICADIDSE. 



Subfamily CICADINsE. 

 Div. POLYNEURARIA. 

 SadaJca hyalina, sp. n. 



$ . Body brownish-ochraceous ; head with a large central spot, an 

 anterior transverse line and linear margins to front, and a somewhat 

 broken transverse fascia between eyes, black ; pronotum with the 

 lateral margins, a central longitudinal line widened anteriorily, a 

 central transverse spot in front of anterior margin, and the incisures, 

 black ; mesonotum with four obconical spots, the two central smallest, 

 a central lanceolate spot and a small spot in front of each anterior 

 angle of the cruciform elevation, black ; basal segmental abdominal 

 margins black ; the central sulcation to face, a fascia between 

 face and eyes, and apex of rostrum black ; tegmina and wings 

 hyaline, venation ochraceous, inclining to fuscous outwardly ; 

 tegmina with the costal area and membrane ochraceous, the last 

 containing two piceous spots ; upper half of basal cell, and 

 basal half of claval area piceous. Head including eyes about equal 



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