186 Mr. W. L. Distant on some 



XVI IT. — Descri/dions of some Ethiopian and Australian 

 Ilomoptera. By W. L. DISTANT, 



Fam. Fulgoridae. 

 Subfam. Tettigometrin^. 



Hilda ivehoitschi, sp. n. 



Vertex of liead and pvonotum pale dull ocliraceous, poste- 

 rior margin of pronotum paler ; scutellum dull castaneous 

 brown, its extreme apex pale dull ocliraceous ; face pale 

 ocliraceous, with a curved transverse testaceous fascia between 

 the eyes ; body beneath and legs more or less ochraceous, 

 femora castaneous, tibifo and tarsi spotted with fuscous 

 brown ; tegmina dull pale violaceous, tlie claval area vires- 

 ceut, margined inwardly and outwardly with pale purplish 

 brown, three irregularly transverse, more or less broken, 

 greyish linear fascise — one near base (outside claval area), 

 one near middle, the third (much angulated) near apex, some 

 small darker spots on costal margin ; vertex of head con- 

 cavely excavate, almost as long as broad; scutellum mode- 

 rately convex, antenna} black. 



Long., incl. tegm., 5 mm. 



Hab. Angola {Dr. Welwitsch). 



Tembandumba, gen. no v. 



Vertex of head longer than breadth between eyes, more or 

 less triangular, acutely narrowed anteriorly, discally foveately, 

 larainately depressed, eyes ut bases of lateral margins, basal 

 margin truncate ; face almost as broad as long, centrally 

 carinate for about half its length, medially depressed ; clypeus 

 about as broad as long, moderately convex ; antennse passing 

 eyes, robust ; pronotum much shorter than vertex, basal 

 margin truncate but centrally slightly sinuate, laterally sub- 

 angulate, centrally longitudinally carinate; scutellum large, 

 convex, almost as broad at base as long, the apex a little 

 acutely longitudinally produced ; tegmina about twice as 

 broad as long, costal margin a little depressed near middle, 

 apices subconically rounded ; legs somewhat short and strong ; 

 posterior tibia unarmed. 



Allied to the genus Hilda, Kirk (n. uoni.), inch Isthmia, 

 Walk., and Egropa, Melich. 



