some Australian Oicadidae. 53 



Munza basimacula. 



Platy pleura basimacula, AValk. List. Horn. i. p. 10 (1850). 



Platypleura reducta, Walk. /. c. p. 11 (1850). 



Munza pygmcea, Jacobi, Sjostedt, Kilimanj. Exped., Horn. t. i. Pig. 3 



(1910). 

 Platypleura sikumba, Asht. Proc. Roy. Soc. Vict. (n. s.) 1914, p. 16, 



pi. iii. fig. 5. 



A very widely distributed species, received from S. and 

 Centr. Africa and from the Congo region. 



Platypleura quadraticollis. 



Platypleura quadraticollis, Butl. Cist. Entom. i. p. 194 (1874) ; Dist. 



lus. Transvaal, vol. i. p. 172, t. xvii. fig. 9 a, b, ? (190(5). 

 Platypleura nigromaculata, Asht. Proc. Roy. Soc. Vict. (n. s.) 1914, 



p. 16, pi. iii. fig. 3. 



This species is widely distributed. Butler originally 

 described it from Lake N'Gami ; I found it in the Transvaal, 

 and we have received it from Uganda ; Ashton has redescribed 

 it from a specimen received from Entebbe. 



Platypleura divisa. 



Cicada divisa, Germ, in Silb. Rev. Ent. ii. p. 80, t. xxiii. (1834). 

 Platypleura lonyirostris, Asht. Proc. Roy. Soc. Vict. (n. s.) 1914, p. 17, 

 pi. iii. fig. 4. 



Mr. Ashton's figure is quite misleading ; it is unnecessarily 

 magnified. 



Although Mr. Ashton describes the wings as " reddish 

 yellow," the absence of any coloration in the figure makes the 

 wings appear to be hyaline ; he also correctly describes " a 

 white spot on margin just outside anal area" which does not 

 appear in the illustration. The length of the rostrum is not 

 a constant character. It is a common species throughout 

 South and East Africa. 



Abricta noctua, Dist. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) xii. p. 4S7 

 (1913). 



Abricta rufoniyera, Asht. Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Austr. xxxviii. p. 349, 

 pi. xvii .'fig. 6 (1914). 



Kobonga froggatti, Dist. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) xii. 

 p. 490 (1913). 

 Kobonga castanea, Asht. Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Austr. xxxviii. p. 351, 

 pi. xxxviii. fig. 5 (1914). 



