Mr. Vi. L. Distant-' >s lihynchotal Notes. 1')d 



l)ase black, tlic other (nearly occupying apical area) bronzy 

 brown; face (excliuling lateral niar^^ins) black; pronotuni 

 thickly, rather finely punctate, with the anterior lateral 

 processes broad, soiuewhat discally flattened, moderately 

 narrowed towards apices, Avhich are somewhat recurved and 

 obliquely truncate, tbese processes are subhorizontal and 

 very slightly elevated, the disk is distinctly centrally carinate 

 above, but faintly and obsoletely so in front, posterior pro- 

 cess moderately undulate, distinctly sei)arate from scutellum, 

 impinging on tegmina beyond scutellum, its apex about 

 reaching the posterior angle of inner tegminal margin, 

 gradually diminishing in breadth from base to apex, -which 

 is subacute, centrally rather strongly carinate ; tegmina 

 strongly wrinkled, tlie basal black area finely punctate. 



Long. ()\-7 mm.; breadth lat. pronot. process. 4i-5 mm. 



Hab. ]Mashonaland ; Salisbury, 5000 ft. ; Umfuli River 

 {G. A. K. Marshall). 



Cenirotus laxatus, sp. n. 



Allied to the preceding species C. marshalli, but differing 

 in the following characters : — the lateral pronotal processes 

 are broader, longer, and less apically recurved, the apices 

 blackly margined, more truncately obliqvie, and distinctly 

 finely bicarinate on the apical areas ; the posterior pronotal 

 process is more robust, its ajiex more downwardly recurved 

 and passing the posterior angle of the inner tegminal 

 margin ; the coloration is generally similar, but on the 

 tegmina the bronzy-brown apical area is much less pro- 

 nounced and more distinct at its inner margin. 



Jjong. 8^ mm. ; breadth lat. pronot. process. 6 rum. 



Hab. Natal; Durban [J. P. Crerjoe). 



Centrotus cornutus. 



Cicada cormda, Liun. Syst. Nat. ii. p. 705. 6 (1767). 



Centrotus coriiutns, Buckt. Monogr. Membrac. p. 245, pi. Ivi. figs. 7 a, b 



(1903). 

 Campylocentrus ruffosus, Buckt. loc. eit. p. 243, pi. Ivi. fig. 3 a (1903). 



Although Buckton's figures are somewdiat diverse, I have 

 before me the type of his C. rugosus and his identical speci- 

 men of typical cornutus. 



Platijbelus slimosus, sp. 



n. 



Piceous brown, somewhat thickly ochraceously pilose ; 

 legs brownish ochraceous, femora piceous brown; face longly 



