Mr. \Y. L. Distant on Homoptcra. 299 



Subfam. Flaunt. 



Genus Ityr^a. 

 Ityraa, StSl, Hem. Afr. iv. p. 235 (1866). 

 Type, 7. nigrocincta, Walk. 



Ityrcea gregoryi, sp. n. 



Head dull reddish, antennae black ; pronotum and meso- 

 notum sanguineous ; abdomen above and body beneath pale 

 ochraceous, thickly whitishly tomentose; anterior and inter- 

 mediate legs piceous or black, more or less greyishly tomen- 

 tose, posterior legs ochraceous, apices of tibiae and the tarsi 

 fuscous ; tegmina ochraceous, narrowly carmine-red at base, 

 costal, apical, and posterior claval margins narrowly piceous, 

 at apex of clavus a piceous spot more or less linearly ex- 

 tending into corium j wings milky white ; antennae with the 

 second joint more than twice the length of first ; pro- and 

 mesonota tricarinate; tegmina twice as long as broad. 



Length, excl. tegm., $ $ 10 mm.; exp. tegm. 40-42 mm. 



Hab. Brit. East Africa; Kibwezi River [Gregory). 



A species allied to /. nigrocincta, Walk., from which it 

 appears — judging from a series of six specimens — to con- 

 stantly differ by the darker tegmina and the narrower struc- 

 ture of the same (twice as long as broad). It is also allied to 

 I. electa, Melich., from the description of which it differs by 

 the differently coloured margin of the tegmina. 



This is one of the species illustrated in the frontispiece to 

 Gregory's ' The Great Rift Valley,' but incorrectly coloured. 

 It is, however, correctly portrayed in plate xxvi. Trans. Ent. 

 Soc. Lond. (1902); the green insect in both plates is the 

 I. speciosa, Melich. 



Genus Phromnia. 

 Phromnia, StSl, Rio Jan. Hem. ii. p. 68 (1858). 

 Type, P. pallida, Oliv. 



Phromnia pallida. 



Fulgora pallida, Oliv. Enc. M<5th. vi. p. 575. 42 (1791). 

 Phromnia pallida, Stal, Hem. Afr. iv. p. 239 (1866) et syn. 

 Flata pallida, Melich. Ann. Hofmus. Wien, xvi. p. 211 (1901). 



Var. limbata. 



Cicada limbata, Fabr. Ent. Syst. iv. p. 27. S (1794). 



Phromnia pallida, var. limbata, StSl, Hem. Afr. iv. p. 239 (1866) et 



syn. 

 Flata limbata, Melich. Ann. Hofmus. Wien, xvi. p. 206 (1001), 



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