374 Mr. W. L. Distant on some 
margins and posterior segmental margins to abdomen, rostrum, 
and abdomen beneath ochraceous; legs brownish ochraceous, 
base of abdomen beneath narrowly black ; tegmina and wings 
hyaline, the venation to both and costal membrane to tegmina 
ochraceous ; head, pronotum, sternum, and legs longly pilose ; 
rostrum reaching the intermediate coxz; opercula short, 
oblique, somewhat widely separated internally ; posterior 
tibie centrally and on apical area longly spinose. 
Long., excl. tegm., ¢, 22; exp. tegm. 48 mm. 
Hab. 8. Africa (no precise locality). 
The largest and most distinctly coloured species of this 
genus as yet described. 
NEOMUDA, gen. nov. 
Body moderately short and robust ; head about as long as 
breadth between eyes, the apex somewhat broadly rounded, 
ocelli about as wide apart from eyes as from each other ; 
pronotum with the lateral margins irregularly convex, the 
posterior angles broadly prominent; face prominently globose, 
transversely striate, and centrally longitudinally sulcate ; 
anterior femora very strongly incrassate and strongly spined ; 
abdomen beneath longly subovate, the lateral margins lami- 
nately recurved ; tympanal coverings absent ; tegmina about 
three times as long as greatest breadth, apical areas eight in 
number ; wings with six apical areas. 
Type, WV. peringuey?, Dist. 
Neomuda peringueyi, sp. n. 
Head and thorax above dull ochraceous, with a more or 
less greenish tint, especially on the pronotum; head above 
with the basal area castaneous, surrounding the ocelli, which 
are pale sanguineous ; pronotum with two central longi- 
tudinal fascia (not extending beyond the anterior confines of 
the basal marginal area) and two curved fasciz on the lateral 
areas, castaneous ; mesonotum with two central obconical 
spots at middle of anterior margin and a somewhat larger, 
more indistinct, elongate spot (denoted by their margins only) 
on each lateral area castaneous ; abdomen above ochraceous, 
with four longitudinal segmental series of transverse casta- 
neous spots, the apical segment more completely castaneous ; 
abdomen beneath more uniformly ochraceous ; legs greenish 
ochraceous, more or less annulated with castaneous; apices 
of tarsi castaneous; face pale greenish, with the striations 
