undescribed Ethiopian Cicadide. 371 
spot on each side subacutely narrowed posteriorly, and two 
small basal spots before cruciform elevation to mesonotum, 
black ; anterior basal segmental margins to abdomen above 
more or less black ; apex of rostrum more or less black ; 
tegmina and wings hyaline, venation black or blackish, 
tegmina with the costal membrane ochraceous; apical margin 
of the claval area to wings black; segmental margins to 
abdomen beneath sometimes black; front of head centrally 
longitudinally excavate; opercula in ¢ short, broad, roundly 
oblique; anterior femora with three blackish spines beneath ; 
rostrum just passing the intermediate coxe; basal cell to 
tegmina long and somewhat narrow. 
Long., excl. tegm., 10-11; exp. tegm. 30-31 mm. 
Hab. N.E. Rhodesia; W. of Medona (D. MacDonald). 
Nyassaland ; Mt. Mlanje (S. A. Weave). Kindu (urgeon). 
S. Leone, Gbonkopillar (A. Pearse). 
Psilotympana varicolor, sp. n. | 
?. Head and pronotum ochraceous ; head between eyes, 
a large suberuciform central fascia, and lateral margins to 
pronotum black ; mesonotum black, with two central, sinuate, 
longitudinal fascie, and narrow lateral margins ochraceous ; 
basal cruciform elevation ochraceous; abdomen above black, 
the segmental margins narrowly ochraceous ; body beneath 
greyishly pilose; legs ochraceous; disk of sternum maculately 
black ; face ochraceous, more or less transversely blackly 
striate ; tegmina and wings pale tale-like, venation and 
costal membrane to tegmina ochraceous, the latter with the 
transverse veins at bases of second and third apical areas 
narrowly, palely infuscate ; rostrum ochraceous, about 
reaching the intermediate coxe. 
Long., excl. tegm., 9,14; exp. tegm. 36 mm. 
Hab. South Africa (no precise locality). 
Taipinga rhodesi, sp. n. 
@?. Head and pronotum black ; a marginal spot on each 
side near base of face and posterior margin and lateral angles 
of pronotum, pale ochraceous; mesonotum greyish white, 
with a large central cruciform spot and a large sublateral 
obconical spot on each side black; abdomen above dark 
ochraceous, posterior segmental margins pale ochraceous, and 
a central longitudinal more or less continuous fascia black ; 
body beneath pale ochraceous; rostrum and legs dark 
ochraceous, the former reaching the intermediate coxa; 
anterior femora strongly spined beneath ; tegmina and wings 
