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Hab. South Africa, Stellenbosch. Cape Town Mus. and 
Coll. Dist. 
A very distinct South-African species, defined by the 
broad and rounded tegmina, approaching in this respect the 
peculiar facies of some Australian species. 
SYNONYMICAL NOTES. 
The following synonymy refers to two South-African 
species, of which I was able during the lifetime of my late 
friend Dr. Signoret to compare the types in his collection 
made by the late Dr. Stal, with those of Mr. Walker in the 
British Museum :— 
Tibicen ( Quintilia) primitiva. 
Cicada primitiva, Walk. List Hom. i. p. 218. n. 171 (1850). 
Tibicen primitiva, Stal, GEfv. Vet.-Ak. Forh. 1862, p. 485. 
Tibicen (Quintilia) hematinus, Stal, Hem. Afr. iv. p. 40. n. 18 (1866). 
Quintilia hematina, Karsch, Berl. ent. Zeitschr. xxxv. p. 121. n, 52 
(1880). 
Tibicen (Quintilia) monilifera. 
Cicada monilifera, Walk. List Hom, i. p. 219. n. 172 (1850). 
Tibicen monilifera, Stal, ify. Vet.-Ak. Forh. 1862, p. 485. 
Tibicen (Quintilia) maculinervis, Stal, Hem. Afr. iv. p. 33. n. 8 (1866). ' 
In the ‘Journal of the Linnean Society’ (Zoology), 
vol. xxiv. pp. 128-131 (1891), Mr. Kirby has described as 
new four species of Cicadidaw from Ceylon. These descrip- 
tions may be interpreted as follows :— 
Dundubia mixta, Kirby, fc. p. 128,= Cicada viridis, Fabr. 
Syst. Rhyng. p. 39. n. 25 (1803), excl. syn. 
Pomponia Greent, Kirby, 0. ¢. p. 129,= Pomponta Ranson- 
neti, Dist. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 6, vol. 1. 
p. 372 (1888). 
Fomponia elegans, Kirby, ¢. c. p. 130,= Terpnosia* psecas, 
Walk. List Hom. 1. p. 65. n. 28 (1850). 
Cicada apicalis, Kirby, 1. c. p. 1381,= Tibicen nubtsfurca, 
Walk. List Hom., Suppl. p. 28 (1858). 
* Terpnosia, gen. nov. Closely allied to Pomponia, but with the tym- 
ana almost entirely uncovered, thus locating the genus in the subfam. 
Tibicenines. (More fully described and figured in my forthcoming part 
of the ‘ Monograph of Oriental Cicadide.’) 
