^Ir. "\V. L. Distiuii's lihijnclotal Notes. 15') 



base black, the other (nearly oecupyinf; apieal area) ijroiizy 

 brown ; face (excluding lateral margins) black ; pronotuiu 

 thicklv, rather finely punctate, with the anterior lateral 

 processes broad, somewhat discally flattened, moderately 

 narrowed towards apices, which arc somewhat recurved and 

 obliquely truncate, these ])roccsses are subhorizontal and 

 very slightly elevated, the disk is distinctly centrally carinate 

 above, but faintly and obsoletely so in front, posterior pro- 

 cess moderately undulate, distinctly sejjarate from scutellum, 

 impinging on tegmina beyond scutellum, its apex about 

 reaching the posterior angle of inner tegminal margin, 

 gradually diminishing in breadth from base to apex, which 

 is subacute, centrally rather strongly carinate ; tegmina 

 strongly wriidvled, the basal black area finely punctate. 



Long. Q\-7 mm.; breadth lat. pronot. process. 4i-5 mm. 



Hub. Mashonalaud ; Salisbury, 5000 ft. ; Umfuli lliver 

 (G. A. K. Marshall). 



Centra (lis hixatiis, sp. n. 



Allied to the preceding species C. marsliaUi, but differing 

 in the following characters : — the lateral pronotal processes 

 are broader, longer, and less apically recurved, the apices 

 blackly margined, more truucately oblique, and distinctly 

 finely bicarinate on the apical areas ; the posterior ])ronotal 

 process is more robust, its apex more downwardly recurved 

 and passing the posterior angle of the inner tegminal 

 margin ; the coloration is generally similar, but on the 

 tegmina the bronzy-brown apieal area is much less pro- 

 nounced and more distinct at its inner margin. 



Long. 8.^ mm. ; breadth lat. pronot. process. 6 mm. 



Hub. Natal; Durban [J. P. Creyoe). 



Cent rot us cornutus. 



Cicada curnuta, Liun. Syst. Nat. ii. p. 705. (1767). 



Centrotus cornutus^ Buckt. Monojjr. Membrac. p. 24o, pi. hi. figs. 1 a,b 



(1903). 

 Campy locentrus rtu/osus, Buckt. loc. cit. p. 243, pi. hi. fig. 3 a (11X)3). 



Although Buckton's figures are somewhat diverse, I have 

 before me the type of his C. ruc/osus and his identical speci- 

 men of typical cornutus. 



Plutybelus sinuosus, sp. n. 



Piccous brown, somewhat thickly ochraceously pilose ; 

 legs brownish ochraccous, femora piceous brown ; face longly 



