374 Mr. W. L. Distant on some 



mai-f^ins and posterior segmental marojins to abdomen, rostrum, 

 and abdomen beneatli ochraceous ; legs brownish ochraceous, 

 base of a))domeii beneath nanowly black ; teirmina and winors 

 hyaline, the venation to both and costal membrane to tefjinina 

 ocluaceous ; head, pronotum, slernum, and legs longly pilose ; 

 rostrum reaching the intermediate coxa; ; opercula short, 

 oblique, somewhat widely separated internally ; posterior 

 tibifB centrally and on apical area longly sj)inose. 



Long., excl. tegm., (^ ,22 ; exp. tegm. 46 mm. 



Hab. S. 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 prominentl}'^ globose, 

 transversely striate, and centrally longitudinally sulcatc ; 

 anterior femora very strongly incrassate and strongly spinedj 

 abdomen beneath longly subovate, the lateral margins lami- 

 nately recurved ; tj'mpanal coverings absent ; tegmina about 

 three times as long as greatest breadtli, apical areas eight in 

 number; wings with six aj)ical areas. 



Type, jy. peringueyi, Dist. 



Neomuda peringueyi, sp. h. 



Head and thorax above dull ochraceous, with a more or 

 less greenish tint, especially on the pronotum; head above 

 with the b;isal area castaneous, surrounding the ocelli, which 

 are j)ale sanguineous ; pronotum with two central longi- 

 tudinal fascia (not extending beyond the anterior confines of 

 the basal marginal area) and two curved fascipe on the lateral 

 areas, eastaneous ; mesonotum with two central obconieal 

 spots at middle of anterior margin and a somewhat larger, 

 more indistinct, elongate spot (denoted by their margins only) 

 on each lateral area eastaneous ; abdomen above ochraceous, 

 with four longitudinal segmental series of transverse easta- 

 neous s|)ots, the apical segment more completely eastaneous ; 

 abdomen beneath more uniformly ochraceous ; legs greenish 

 ocliraeeous, more or less annulated with eastaneous; apices 

 ot tarsi eastaneous; face j)ale greenish, with the striations 



