186 Mr. W. L. Distant on some 
XVITI.—Deseriptions of some Ethiopian and Australian 
Homoptera. By W. L. Distant. 
Fam. Fulgoride. 
Subfam. TzerrrgoMETRInz. 
Hilda welwitschi, sp. n. 
Vertex of head and pronotum pale dull ochraceous, poste- 
rior margin of pronotum paler; scutellum dull castaneous 
brown, its extreme apex pale dull ochraceous ; face pale 
ochraceous, with a curved transverse testaceous fascia between 
the eyes; body beneath and legs more or less ochraceous, 
femora castaneous, tibiz and tarsi spotted with fuscous 
brown; tegmina dull pale violaceous, the claval area vires- 
cent, margined inwardly and outwardly with pale purplish 
brown, three irregularly transverse, more or less broken, 
greyish linear fascie—one near base (outside claval area), 
one near middle, the third (much angulated) near apex, some 
small darker spots on costal margin; vertex of head con- 
cavely excavate, almost as long as broad; scutellum mode- 
rately convex, antenne black. 
Long., incl. tegm., 5 mm. 
Hab. Angola (Dr. Welwitsch). 
T'EMBANDUMBA, gen. nov. 
Vertex of head longer than breadth between eyes, more or 
less triangular, acutely narrowed anteriorly, discally foveately, 
laminately depressed, eyes at bases of lateral margins, basal 
margin truncate ; face almost as broad as long, centrally 
carinate for about half its length, medially depressed ; clypeus 
about as broad as long, moderately convex ; antenne passing 
eyes, robust; pronotum much shorter than vertex, basal 
margin truncate but centrally slightly sinuate, laterally sub- 
angulate, centrally longitudinally carinate; scutellum large, 
convex, almost as broad at base as long, the apex a little 
acutely longitudinally produced; tegmina about twice as 
broad as long, costal margin a little depressed near middle, 
apices subconically rounded ; legs somewhat short and strong ; 
posterior tibia unarmed. 
Allied to the genus Hilda, Kirk (n. nom.), incl. Zsthmia, 
Walk., and /gropa, Melich. 
